Parts of Speech
This part of speech is a person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a noun?
A simple sentence must have these two basic parts.
What are a subject and a predicate?
Name the FANBOYS conjunctions.
For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So
Give three subordinating conjunctions
After, Although, As, When, While, Until, Because, Before, If, Since
This type of clause can stand alone as a sentence.
What is an independent clause?
This part of speech shows an action or a state of being.
What is a verb?
Identify the simple sentence:
A. When I get home, I will eat.
B. The dog barked loudly.
What is B?
Combine the sentences using a FANBOYS conjunction:
“I was tired. I kept working.”
I was tired, but I kept working.
Identify the dependent clause:
“When the bell rang, we lined up.”
When the bell rang
This type of clause begins with a subordinating conjunction and cannot stand alone.
What is a dependent clause?
This part of speech describes a noun.
What is an adjective?
True or False: A simple sentence can have a coordinating conjunction.
True
A compound sentence must have two of these.
Two independent clauses.
True or False: A complex sentence has one independent clause and one dependent clause.
True
Identify the independent clause:
“Although I was cold, I forgot my jacket.”
I forgot my jacket
This part of speech replaces a noun to avoid repeating it.
What is a pronoun?
Fix this fragment to make a simple sentence:
“Running through the hallway.”
Many options — e.g., “He was running through the hallway.”
Identify the conjunction in this sentence:
“I wanted pizza, yet we ate salad.”
yet
Combine the sentences into a complex sentence:
“I didn’t go outside. It was raining.”
“I didn’t go outside because it was raining.”
Make a sentence using both an independent and a dependent clause.
Many options — e.g., “Because I was hungry, I made a sandwich.”
This part of speech shows location/time - when or where
What is a preposition?
Rewrite this simple sentence to make it more detailed, but keep it a simple sentence:
“The cat slept.”
Possible Answer:
“The tired gray cat slept peacefully on the warm couch.”
What does yet mean in this sentence
“I wanted pizza, yet we ate salad.”
But
Combine the sentences into a complex sentence:
Gatortime is nice. Ms. Ali is the best.
Gatortime is nice because Ms. Ali is the best!
Fix the sentence by correctly joining the clauses with a subordinating conjunction:
“_____ it started to storm, we kept playing outside we wanted to finish the game.”
“Because it started to storm, we kept playing outside we wanted to finish the game.”