Subject & Predicate
This is the part of a complete sentence that tells who or what the sentence is about.
What is a subject?
This type of clause has a subject and a verb, expresses a complete thought, and can stand alone as a sentence.
What is an independent clause?
This famous 7-letter acronym helps you remember all of the coordinating conjunctions.
What is FANBOYS?
This severe punctuation error happens when you try to fix a run-on sentence using only a comma.
What is a comma splice?
This type of poem consists of 3 lines with a specific syllable count of 5, 7, and 5.
What is a haiku?
This type of predicate consists of just the main verb, with no extra words attached.
What is a simple predicate?
This sentence type contains exactly one independent clause and no dependent clauses, such as "Anastasia studied for three hours."
What is a simple sentence?
This is the acronym used for subordinating conjunctions like After, Although, As, and When.
What is AAAWWUBBIS?
This is the correct way to write the possessive form of a notebook belonging to a single student.
What is "student's"?
This part of an argumentative introduction paragraph is a single sentence that states your position and lists the three reasons you will prove.
What is a claim?
In the sentence "The old library at the end of the street burned down last night," this single word is the simple subject.
What is library?
This is the sentence type of the following sentence: "Scott finished the race, and the crowd went wild."
What is a compound sentence?
This error occurs when a sentence is missing a subject, a verb, or a complete thought—such as the phrase "Before the concert even started."
What is a fragment?
This is the rule for testing whether you should use it's or its in a sentence.
What is replacing it with "it is" (to see if it still makes sense)?
This is the rhyme scheme of a four-line poem where lines 1 & 3 rhyme, and lines 2 & 4 rhyme.
What is ABAB?
This is the complete subject in the sentence: "The captain of the winning team gave a short speech."
What is "The captain of a winning team"?
It’s the trickiest sentence type, requiring two or more independent clauses AND at least one dependent clause.
What is a compound-complex sentence?
According to the comma rule, you only need a comma if this specific type of clause comes first in a sentence.
What is a dependent clause?
These four seasonal words should never be capitalized unless they start a sentence.
What are summer, winter, fall, and spring?
When writing an argumentative body paragraph, this is the crucial element you must always include right after presenting a specific piece of evidence to prove why it matters.
What is an explanation?
This is the simple predicate in the following sentence: "During the storm, three enormous trees fell across the road."
What is "fell"?
Identify the sentence type for this multi-action example: "She packed her bag, turned off the lights, and locked the door."
What is a simple sentence?
Of the words although, because, yet, and since, this is the only one that functions as a coordinating conjunction.
What is "yet"?
Name at least three of the four ways the packet suggests to properly fix a run-on sentence like "The bus broke down everyone had to walk home."
What are: adding a period, adding a semicolon, adding a comma + FANBOYS or adding a subordinating conjunction?
This specific style of poetry was written in class to tell the story of a heroic journey or great event, spanning exactly 32 lines.
What is an epic poem?