A word that names a person, animal, place, thing or idea
What is a noun?
100
The part of speech that describes a verb, an adjective, or adverb
What is an adverb?
100
In contractions, in possessive nouns, and when referring to the plurals of letters, numbers, and words
What are places where an apostrophe is needed?
100
The part of a sentence that tells about the subject, what the subject does/did, is/was.
What is the predicate?
100
A group of words that is not quite an entire sentence because it is missing either a subject or a main verb
What is a sentence fragment?
200
A word that can be used to replace a noun
What is a pronoun?
200
A type of verb that helps the main verb express its tense
What is a helping verb?
200
Magazine and newspaper articles should be set of by ______
What are quotation marks?
200
A group of words that have no subject or predicate
What is a phrase?
200
Two or more sentences run together without the proper punctuation
What is a run-on sentence?
300
To signify the approaching of a noun in a sentence
What is an article?
300
The ________ of a verb tells you when the action of the verb takes place
What is tense?
300
A/ An ______ should be used to introduce a long quotation
What is a colon?
300
A sentence that makes a request or gives a command
What is an imperative sentence?
300
An arrangement of clauses that confuses the meaning of a sentence
What is a misplaced modifier?
400
A noun or phrase that comes after another noun to identify, explain, or give information about the other noun
What is an appositive?
400
The perfect tense (past participle) of the word sing
What is sung?
400
Used in front of short quotations
What is a comma?
400
A group of words that includes a subject and a predicate but can not stand alone
What is a dependent or subordinate clause?
400
What is missing from these sentences:
She is very smart but she does not like to pay attention. I think if she were to get focused she could go very far.
What is a pronoun antecedent?
500
A noun that is receiving the action of a verb
What is the direct object?
500
The perfect tense (past participle) of the word bust
What is burst?
500
To replace words that you leave out you should use a/an _______
What is an ellipsis?
500
A sentence that contains two or more independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses with proper punctuation.
What is a compound-complex sentence?
500
In this sentence:
Ana left a soda on the table for her friend.
The underlined portion serves as what part of the sentence?