Sentences and Fragments
Sentence or fragment?
Gloria went on tour in Brazil last summer.
What is a sentence?
What is the person or thing that does something in a sentence?
What is subject?
What is the word used to describe the action or state of being in a sentence?
What is verb?
Identify the direct object:
The crazy cowboy was wearing lizard-skin boots at the ice cream parlor.
What is boots?
Double Jeopardy!! Find the subject complement:
Joey looks sick as a dog.
What is sick?
Sentence or fragment?
The tiny, hairy monkey playing the bongo drums
What is fragment?
What is the verb?
Yesterday at the Institute for Disturbed Livestock, there was a food fight in the swine development center.
What is was?
Identify the subject and verb.
At first, Egbert and his bandmates had a hard time getting gigs in the big clubs in New Orleans.
Subject - Egbert and his bandmates
Verb - had
Double Jeopardy! Complete this sentence:
A direct object is never in a ____________ ________.
What is prepositional phrase?
What are the two main types of subject complements, and what kind of verb does a subject complement have to follow?
What are predicate nominatives and predicate adjectives and linking?
When the art teacher, Mr. Miller, was absent from the room
What is (teacher check this answer)?
Identify the subject and the verb:
One of the mushroom and spinach dumplings contains a coin.
What is: Subject -one, Verb - contains
Identify the subject and the verb:
When did Izzy and Dizzy run the three-legged race?
What is: Subject - Izzy and Dizzy, Verb - did run
Identify the direct object:
My annoying friend Ned told his dad all about us breaking the window in the basement.
What is dad?
What is she?
Zena and Tom, two scientists who visit an inn that seems to steal fifty years of their lives
What is fragment?
Identify the subject and verb:
Wrap the box with string and mail it to Bianca today.
What is: Subject - You, Verb - wrap, mail
Identify the subject and verb:
There before my eyes was a slimy, stinky toad blinking its beady red eyes at me.
What is: Subject - toad, Verb - was
How do you find the direct object in a sentence?
What is: Find the action verb and ask who or what after the verb.
Identify the subject, linking verb, and subject complement:
Mr. Canary, the professor at Fowler University, was a writer, an artist, and a philosopher.
What is: Subject = Mr. Canary; Linking Verb = was
Subject Complements = writer, artist, philosopher
Fix these groups of words:
If he could. He would have played baseball.
What is
If he could, he would have played baseball.
Double Jeopardy!!!! Identify the subject and verb:
Ellington's first song was called "Soda Fountain Twist" and earned him notoriety all over the world.
What is: Subject - song, Verb - was called, earned
Identify the subject and verb:
Herds of elephants, flocks of geese, and fourteen tigers danced and performed tricks in the circus.
Subject - herds, flocks, tigers
Verb - danced, performed
Identify the direct object:
Romeo the Romantic tripped over a rock on the way to Juliet's house, broke his leg, lost his box of chocolates, and cried tears of despair.
What are leg, box, tears?
Double Jeopardy!! Identify the predicate nominative, the predicate adjective, and the direct object.
Lucia was unhappy with the choreography, but Paulie was the director and had the final say.
What is: PA = unhappy; PN = director; DO = say