Parts of Speech
Identify the verb:
Dad loves books and football.
What is: loves
Is this a sentence or a run-on?
We drove through the mountain.
What is: sentence
Identify the subject in this sentence:
Plants were the first living things on earth.
What is plants
Identify the complete predicate in this sentence:
The strong athlete helped his team win the game.
What is: helped his team win the game
Is this an example of 1st or 3rd person narration?
After running three miles, I could barely move.
What is: 1st person narration
Identify the adjective:
The crowded mall was closing soon.
What is: crowded
Is this a sentence or a run-on?
Friends sometimes fight they spend too much time together.
What is: run-on
Identify the subject in this sentence:
The policeman walked through the doorway and into the garden.
What is policeman
Identify the simple (1 word) predicate in this sentence:
The sun feels very warm today.
What is: feels
What is: main idea sentence
Identify the 2 nouns in the sentence:
Peter stayed out of trouble.
What is: Peter and trouble
Correct this run-on:
He was angry it rained all afternoon.
What is:
He was angry. It rained all afternoon.
Identify the subject in this sentence:
People can communicate with each other through the internet.
What is: people
Identify the simple (1 word) predicate in this sentence:
He was excited to go skiing.
What is: was
What is missing from the following sentence?
This river is one of the longest in the country
What is: a period
Identify the verb:
Carmine and I tell scary stories around the campfire.
What is: tell
Is this a sentence or a run-on?
I did not think it was going to happen to us today.
What is sentence
Identify the subject in this sentence:
I looked under my bed, behind my dresser, and above my bookshelf for my missing necklace.
What is: I
Identify the complete predicate in this sentence:
The old, gray haired man left money under his mattress.
What is: left money under his mattress
What does PROOFREAD mean?
Identify all the nouns in this sentence:
Time seemed to go by quickly while she was watching television.
What is: time, she and television
Correct this run-on sentence:
You must have thought I could swim I don't know how.
What is:
You must have thought I could swim. I don't know how.
Add a subject to make this sentence complete:
____________ found it very difficult to walk against the wind.
What is: I
(or other acceptable responses)
Add a predicate to make the sentence complete:
Susan _________________.
(Accept any reasonable response)
Identify each part of speech in the sentence below:
Mom ate chocolate pudding.
What is:
Mom (noun),
ate (verb)
chocolate (adjective)
pudding (noun)