Prepositions
Participles
Gerunds
Appositive
Wild Card
100
Identify the preposition or the prepositional phrase in the sentence. My sister went around the accident but still ran into traffic.
What is around the accident.
100
Identify the participle Did all of them have a winning record?
What is winning
100
Identify the gerund in the sentence. Skating was Karen's favorite pastime.
What is skating
100
Identify the appositive or the appositive phrase in the sentence. Willie Mayes, the famous home run hitter, signed one of my baseball cards.
What is the famous home run hitter.
100
Identify the Phrase as a prepositional, participial, appositive, gerund, or infinitive phrase. Dan has never been one to complain about his problems
What is to complain- infinitive
200
Identify the preposition or the prepositional phrase in the sentence. Inside the auditorium, people walked and talked about the many things they had seen.
What is inside the auditorium.
200
Identify the participial phrase in the sentence. A coach watching them insisted they try our first.
What is watching them.
200
Identify the gerund or gerund phrase in the sentence. Public speaking was the class assignment everyone feared.
What is public speaking.
200
Identify the appositive or the appositive phrase in the sentence. Tom, the actor, has performed in many musicals.
What is actor.
200
Identify the Phrase as a prepositional, participial, appositive, gerund, or infinitive phrase. Combining the ingredients is the easy part.
What is combining- gerund
300
Identify the preposition or the prepositional phrase in the sentence. My mom slipped on the slippery rug.
What is on the slippery rug.
300
Identify the participle in the sentence. The car screeched down the twisting road.
What is twisting.
300
Identify the gerund or gerund phrase in the sentence. Traveling is a good way to see the world.
What is traveling.
300
Identify the appositive or the appositive phrase in the sentence. Meagan, my sister, is a very controlling individual.
What is my sister.
300
Identify the Phrase as a prepositional, participial, appositive, gerund, or infinitive phrase. The worker wore a jacket decorated with many medals.
What is decorated- participle
400
Identify the object of the preposition in the sentence. Did you pass the test with flying colors?
What is colors.
400
A participle acts as an __________________, modifiying a noun or pronoun
What is adjective.
400
A gerund acts as a __________________.
What is noun
400
An appositive renames or further identify ______________________
What is a noun or pronoun.
400
Identify the Phrase as a prepositional, participial, appositive, gerund, or infinitive phrase. Buying fire extinguishers is a good way to save lives.
What is buying- gerund
500
A prepositional phrase begins with a ___________________ and usually ends with a noun or pronoun called the ______________________________.
What is Prepositional phrase & Object of the preposition.
500
A participle ends in __________ and ___________.
What is -ing or -ed
500
A gerund ends in __________________, similiar to a participle.
What is -ing
500
An __________ ___________ contains an appositive and any words that modify it.
What is appositive phrase
500
Identify the Phrase as a prepositional, participial, appositive, gerund, or infinitive phrase. The difference between a participle and a gerund, is a participle________________________ and a gerund ___________________________.
What is acts as an adjective/ acts as a noun
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