Chart A
What are the 4 sentence structures?
Simple, Compound, Complex, Compound-Complex
What is the definition of a verb?
A verb is a word that asserts an action, shows a state of being, links two words together or helps another verb.
What is an adverb, and what questions does it answer?
An adverb modifies a verb, adjective or another adverb and answers the questions: How, when, where, why, how often, how much, to what extent, under what condition.
What are the 4 sentence purposes?
Declarative, Exclamatory, Interrogative, Imperative
What are the 4 types of verbs?
Intransitive, Transitive, Linking, Helping
What is an adjective, and what questions does it answer?
An adjective modifies a noun or a pronoun by describing, qualifying or limiting, and answers the questions what kind, how many, which, or whose.
What are the 8 parts of speech?
Noun, Pronoun, Verb, Adverb, Conjunction, Interjection, Preposition, Adjective
Identify the Noun of Direct Address in this sentence:
Girls, how was the party?
Girls
What is the difference between an intransitive verb and a transitive verb?
A transitive verb transfers the action from the subject to a direct object.
An intransitive verb does not transfer the action.
Identify the adverbs and adjectives in this sentence:
The quick, brown fox jumped quietly over the lazy dog.
quick, brown, quietly, lazy
What is an interjection?
An interjection is a word or phrase used as a strong expression of feeling or emotion.
What are the 5 parts of a sentence?
Subject, Predicate, Capital Letter, End Mark, Complete Sense
What are the 5 interrogative pronouns?
Who, Whom, Whose, Which, What
What is a linking verb? Name them.
A linking verb makes an assertion by joining two words.
Am, are, is, was, were, be, being, been, feel, become, remain, taste, seem, appear, look, sound, stay, smell, grow
Identify the prepositional phrase in this sentence:
I went for a long walk yesterday.
(for a long walk)
Give an example of a one-word interjection.
Examples: Wow! Whoa! Ahhhh!
What are the 7 sentence patterns?
S-Vi, S-Vt-DO, S-Vl-PN, S-Vl-PA, S-Vt-IO-DO, S-Vt-DO-OCN, S-Vt-DO-OCA
Identify the appositive in this sentence:
Courtney, my sister, is taller than me.
sister
List the 5 principal parts of a verb.
Infinitive, Present, Past, Present Participle, Past Participle
What is a preposition? Name them.
A preposition relates a noun or a pronoun to another word. About, above, across, after, against, along, amid, among, around, at, atop, before, behind, below, beneath, beside, between, beyond, but, by, concerning, down, during, except, for, from, in, inside, into, like, near, of, off, on, onto, out, outside, over, past, regarding, since, through, throughout, to, toward, under, underneath, until, up, upon, with, within, without
What is the difference between a phrase and a clause?
A clause is a group of words that contains both a subject and a verb.
A phrase is a group of words that does not contain both a subject and a verb.