Name the simple subject
Subject-verb agreement
Collective and Appositive Nouns
VEEERRRBS!
Parts of Speech
100
Was his father a stonemason?
What is father
100
Russell Baker's wisdom or his humor (attract, attracts) readers.
What is attracts
100
A committee (chooses/choose) the convention city.
What is chooses
100
Name the direct object He brought her flowers.
What is flowers
100
A pronoun that does not refer to a particular person, place or thing
What is indefinite pronoun. (Another, everybody, etc.) 443 Remember some are always singular and some are always plural. SUBJECT VERB AGREEMENT
200
Here is a picture of the family.
What is picture
200
Critics and other readers (praise, praises) his autobiography.
What is praise.
200
The group (meets, meet) to draft its party's policies.
What is meets
200
Name the indirect object The teacher handed Regan the paper quickly.
What is Regan
200
A pronoun that refers to another noun or pronoun and indicates that the same person or thing is involved
What is reflexive pronoun. (i.e. She bought herself shoes.)
300
There are many books about his family.
What is books
300
His family and life (interest, interests) readers
What is interest
300
Then the committee (states, state) their opinions.
What is state
300
Transitive or Intransitive??? Theater performers often wear simple costumes.
What is Transitive (because it has a direct object!)
300
A pronoun that adds emphasis to a noun or a pronoun already named.
What is intensive
400
Read the book.
What is (you)
400
His columns and poems (appear, appears) regularly.
What is appear
400
Name the appositive When she was born, Texas, her home state, was segregated.
What is her home state
400
Name the predicate adjectives! She is beautiful and smart
What is beautiful and smart
400
point out something and describe nouns by answering the questions which one? or which ones?
What is demonstrative adjectives
500
Tell the name of his college.
What is (you)
500
The George Polk Award or the Pulitzer Prize (prove, proves) his worth.
What is proves
500
Jordan studied law at Boston University, an integrated school.
What is an integrated school
500
Name the predicate noun The hungry dog is Henry.
What is Henry
500
may be used to join simple sentences in a compound sentence
What is conjunctive adverbs
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