Parts of Speech
A verb is an action or doing word.
True
Audience is the person or group of people a writer is trying to reach.
True
Tone is the writer’s/speaker’s attitude towards a subject or audience. It is how the writing “sounds” to the reader.
What is true?
What punctuation mark is used at the end of a statement?
What is a period?
A simple sentence contains one subject and one predicate. They may contain an object or modifiers (adjectives and adverbs), but they will only contain one independent clause.
True
In the sentence, “The students gathered around the table before the lecture began,” identify all the prepositions.
around and before.
Identify the adjective in this sentence:
Cathy ran down to the shop to create a pretty dress.
What is pretty?
These are the only examples of tone:
What is false?
Which word is the subject in this sentence: “The dog chased the ball.”
What is dog?
This sentence structure contains two independent clauses that are joined by a coordinating conjunction (for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so). Each independent clause has its own subject and predicate.
What is a compound sentence?
Identify the adjective(s) in this sentence:
The professor assigned a challenging essay to the class.
What is challenging?
Who would the audience be for this statement:
“Please sign and return your child’s permission slips.”
What are parents
This is the tone of this statement:
“I expected better from you.”
What is disappointed?
Correct this sentence: “my friend likes basketball”
What is “My friend likes basketball.”?
This sentence structure contains at least two independent clauses and one dependent clause
What is a compound-complex sentence?
Identify all the verbs in this sentence:
The researcher analyzed the survey results and compared them with previous studies before drawing a conclusion.
What is analyzed and compared?
The purpose of this message:
“The water cycle describes how water moves through Earth’s atmosphere.”
What is to inform about the water cycle
This is the tone of this statement:
“Is everything okay?” You’re later than usual.”
What is concerned?
Correct the punctuation in this sentence: “I wanted to go outside but it started raining.”
What is “I wanted to go outside, but it started raining.”?
This sentence is an example of a _____\ sentence.
Because it was snowing yesterday, we built a fire to keep warm.
Complex
In the sentence, “She is smiling at the camera,” what part of speech is “she”?
What is a pronoun?
Read the Sentence:
“Visit the school book fair this weekend to discover exciting new books and support our library.”
Which words helped you determinde the purpose?
Tell me all of them.
What is Visit, Discover exciting new books, and Support our library?
“Oh great, another group project. Because apparently, I have nothing better to do.”
What is the tone of the sentence?
What is Sarcastic / annoyed?
Which sentence is grammatically and punctuationally correct?
A. After school I went home, and finished my homework.
B. After school, I went home and finished my homework.
C. After school I went home and, finished my homework.
D. After school, I went home, and finished my homework.
What is B?
This sentence is an example of which sentence structures:
Although the scientist had warned that the experiment could produce unpredictable results, the researchers proceeded with the trial, which had been designed to determine whether the newly synthesized compound could inhibit the virus without damaging healthy cells.
What is a compound-complex sentence?