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Parts of Speech
Subjects & Predicates
Expanding Sentences
Sentence Types
100
  • Clue: This part of speech names a person, place, thing, or idea.
  • Answer: What is a noun?
100

  • Clue: This part of a sentence tells who or what the sentence is about.

Answer: What is the subject?

100
  • Clue: To expand a simple core sentence like “Dogs bark,” you can add these describing words before the noun.
  • Answer: What are adjectives?
100
  • Clue: This sentence type makes a statement and ends with a period.
  • Answer: What is a declarative sentence?
200
  • Clue: Identify the adjective in this sentence: The fluffy cat slept on the mat.


  • Answer: What is "fluffy"?
200
  • Clue: Identify the complete subject in this sentence: My older brother plays guitar in a band.
  • Answer: What is "My older brother"?
200


  • Clue: Expand the sentence “The bird flew” by adding a prepositional phrase telling where.

Answer: What is The bird flew [through the trees / across the sky]? (Accept any grammatically correct prepositional placement)

200
  • Clue: This sentence type asks a question and ends with a question mark.
  • Answer: What is an interrogative sentence?
300
  • Clue: This part of speech connects words, phrases, or clauses (examples: and, but, so).
  • Answer: What is a conjunction?
300

  • Clue: Identify the simple predicate (verb) in this sentence: The shining sun warmed the cold earth.

Answer: What is "warmed"?

300
  • Clue: Turn the simple sentence “The girl read a book” into an expanded sentence by adding an adverb telling how.
  • Answer: What is The girl quietly (or eagerly) read a book?
300
  • Clue: This sentence type gives a command or polite request and often has an "implied you" subject.
  • Answer: What is an imperative sentence?
400
  • Clue: Identify the adverb in this sentence: She quickly solved the difficult puzzle.
  • Answer: What is "quickly"?
400

  • Clue: This type of subject contains two or more simple subjects joined by a conjunction (e.g., Jack and Jill).

Answer: What is a compound subject?

400
  • Clue: Combine these two simple sentences using a coordinating conjunction: It started to rain. We kept playing soccer.
  • Answer: What is It started to rain, but we kept playing soccer?
400
  • Clue: Classify this sentence by structure: Although the bell rang, the students finished their test.
  • Answer: What is a complex sentence?
500


  • Clue: Identify the preposition in this sentence: The book fell underneath the wooden desk.



  • Answer: What is "underneath"?
500

  • Clue: Find the missing element or state the issue: Ran across the grassy backyard.


Answer: What is a sentence fragment (missing a subject)?

500
  • Clue: Add an appositive phrase (extra info set off by commas) to expand this sentence: My dog chased the rabbit.
  • Answer: What is My dog, a playful beagle, chased the rabbit? (Answers may vary)
500
  • Clue: Classify this sentence by structure and type: Stop talking and open your books!
  • Answer: What is an imperative (or compound) sentence?