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What do you call a sentence that has an adjective at the beginning?
What is an opening adjective?
100
An adjective placed after the word it describes is called what?
What is a delayed adjective?
100
A verbal that ends in -ing or -ed and is used to describe is called a _______________. It shows action so it acts like a verb, but it also describes, so it also acts like an adjective.
What is a participle?
100
What is a noun that identifies a person, place or thing in a sentence?
What is an appositive?
100
A sentence part describing the rest of the sentence in which it appears. - Adding was or were to this type of phrase can make it a complete sentence.
What is absolute phrase?
200
What are the two ways an adjective can open a sentence? Hint -consider the number of words in the opening.
What are a single opening adjective and a multiple opening adjective?
200
An adverb placed away from the action being described is called what?
What is a delayed adverb?
200
A participle can or can not be removed from a sentence?
What is can? A participle can be removed from a sentence, but a verb can not be removed.
200
In the following sentence, what is the appositive phrase identifying? Don Gross was a tough guy, an ex-marine who had never lost his military manner. - Michael Crichton
What is identifying a person?
200
Identify the absolute phrase in the following sentence: He sat down at the table, the cup in both hands, and tried to drink. - Hal Borland
What is the cup in both hands?
300
An opening adverb that tells how and action happened almost always ends in what?
What is ly?
300
The three clouds rose up together, smoothly. - Michael Crichton What is smoothly an example of?
What is a single delayed adverb?
300
What letters does a gerund end in?
What is -ing?
300
An appositive often begins with one of these three words.
What is a, an or the?
300
Can you have more than one absolute phrase in a sentence? If so, what is it called?
What is yes, a multiple absolute?
400
Quickly and quietly, over the guard's head, George walked away. - Harris Augusto Rey What type of opening phrase is this? Be specific.
What is a multiple opening adverb?
400
Identify the phrase at the end of this sentence by telling me what type of phrase it is. The Indian lay there on the floor of the cupboard, stiff and stark. - Lynne Reid Banks
What is delayed adjective?
400
What shows action like a verb but acts like a noun by naming activities? This verbal can not be removed from the sentence without destroying it.
What is a gerund?
400
Combine the following to create a sentence imitating this model: Fudge, a portly little man in a long, pinstriped cloak, looked cold and exhausted. -JK Rowling a. Nora was a sickly gray-haired woman in a shabby blue blouse. b. She seemed surprised. c. But she was grateful.
What is Nora, a sickly gray-haired woman in a shabby blue blouse, seemed surprised and grateful.
400
Another way to identify an absolute is that absolutes begin with these words: my, his, her, its, our or their. These words are all examples of what? (These can be stated or implied in the sentence.)
What is a possessive pronoun?
500
What are the three questions that an adverb answers?
What are how, when and where?
500
Now, then and yesterday are examples of what part of speech?
What are adverbs. These adverbs do not end in -ly, but they tell when an action happened.
500
Feeling so much better after the nap relieved Gunster. Does this sentence contain a participle or gerund?
What is a gerund?
500
Add an appositive phrase to the following sentence that identifies a place. Once they were in her classroom, __________, Mrs. Brandon played a fantastic vocabulary game.
What is a beautiful room with board games hung everywhere, or, any other correct phrase.
500
Name all of the reasons you know the following sentence has an absolute phrase. And, what is the absolute phrase? Mr. Barnett, his face red and his eyes bulging, immediately pounced on her. - Mildred D. Taylor
What is 1 - You can add was and were to make it a complete sentence, 2 - it starts with a visible possessive pronoun (his). his face red and his eyes bulging is the phrase.
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