Types of Sentences
Subjects
Predicates
Compound & Complex Sentences
Fragments & Run-Ons
100
What are the four types of sentences?
What is imperative, declarative, interrogative, and exclamatory
100
Please give the simple subject for the following sentence. The dentist pulled out the tooth.
What is dentist
100
What is a predicate?
What is a fancy word for a verb in a sentence that tells what the subject is doing.
100
Which sentence best completes the compound sentence? Ginger went to bed early, but _____________ 1) she could not sleep 2) the snow fell all morning
What is 1) she could not sleep
100
What is a fragment?
What is part of a sentence that is either missing the subject or the verb
200
Name this type of sentence: The moon is Earth's nearest neighbor.
What is declarative
200

What is the simple subject for the following sentence: The pig with a big snout slobbered on a kid.

What is pig.

200

What is the simple predicate for the following sentence? Two large alligators slid into the water.

What is slid. 

200

What is the subordinating conjunction in the following complex sentence? Aunt Ira knits while the rest of us watch TV.

What is while

200
Correct the following run-on sentence: I answered the phone somebody laughed and hung up.
What is I answered the phone, but somebody laughed and hung up. OR I answered the phone. Somebody laughed and hung up.
300
Name this type of sentence: Show me your photos of the moon.
What is imperative
300
What is the definition of a subject?
What is tells whom or what the sentence is about
300
What is the simple predicate for the following sentence? These sweet peppers grew in my garden.
What is grew
300
What is a compound sentence? What are two things it must include?
What is combines two simple sentences that have related ideas. It must have a comma and a conjunction to join the two ideas.
300
Is this a fragment or a sentence? The pickles on this sandwich.
What is fragment
400
Which punctuation mark is missing in the following sentence: Does that surprise you
What is a question mark
400
What is the subject in the following sentence: Please come with us.
What is an understood you
400
What are the compound predicates in the following sentence? The flames blazed and crackled in the fireplace.
What is blazed, crackled
400

Is this sentences compound or complex? Although dad likes dogs, we can't have one in our apartment.

complex

400
Fix this fragment: The beautiful rose garden
What is surrounded the school.
500
Which punctuation mark should be on the end of the following sentence? Wow, that really surprises me
What is an exclamation point
500

Combine the following two sentences to make one sentence with a compound subject: An apple satisfies my hunger between meals. A banana satisfies my hunger between meals.

What is An apple or a banana satisfies my hunger between meals.

500
Combine the following two sentences to make a sentence with a compound predicate. These sandwiches look great! These sandwiches taste great!
What is These sandwiches look and taste great!
500
What is a complex sentence?
What is a sentence made up of two related ideas joined by a subordinating conjunction.
500

Fix the following run-on: The sailors knew about the storm, they sailed out to sea anyway.

What is the sailors knew about the storm, but they sailed out to sea anyway.

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