Phrases
Subjects and Objects
Predicates
Types of Sentences
Dependent Clauses
100
This cannot stand alone as a grammatical sentence.
What is a phrase?
100
The subject of a sentence must always function as this word class.
What is a noun?
100
This type of predicate contains copular verbs.
What is a nominal predicate?
100
These are the two ways to classify sentences.
What are by function and by form?
100
This is the difference between an independent and dependent clause.
What is "dependent clauses cannot stand on their own"?
200
"A beautiful summer day" is this type of phrase.
What is a noun phrase?
200
This is the subject of the following sentence: "Jupiter is the largest planet in solar system".
What is Jupiter?
200
This type of predicate contains transitive verbs.
What is a verbal predicate?
200
This classification is used when a sentence is called "declarative".
What is function?
200
This type of clause can function as the subject or object of a sentence.
What is a noun clause?
300
"walked down the muddy path" is this type of phrase.
What is a verb phrase?
300
This is the subject of the following sentence: "Watching the sunrise is a wonderful experience."
What is "watching the sunrise"?
300
This is the type of predicate shown in the following sentence: "The moon is a low hanging orb this evening"
What is a nominal predicate?
300
This classification is used when a sentence is called "interrogative".
What is function?
300
This type of clause tells you when an event occurred.
What is an adverbial clause?
400
"over a long period of time" is this time of phrase.
What is a prepositional phrase?
400
This is the object of the following sentence: "I learned nothing today."
What is "nothing"?
400
This is the type of nominal predicate shown in the following sentence: "The woman was without a job".
What is a prepositional noun predicate?
400
This classification is used when a sentence is called "complex".
What is form?
400
This type of clause is shown in the following sentence: "I knew it was a long shot."
What is a noun clause?
500
"very big" is this type of phrase.
What is an adjectival phrase?
500
This is the object of the following sentence: "I thought I was still sleeping."
What is "I was still sleeping"?
500
This is the type of verbal predicate shown in the following sentence: "The dog broke the back fence".
What is an object verbal predicate?
500
This is the form classification of the following sentence: "I was very angry and I decided to take it out on the wall."
What is compound?
500
This is the type of clause shown in the following sentence: "The whole family traveled to Spain, which is my homeland."
What is a relative clause?
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