Shifty Pronouns
Is there a shift in person or number?: “You should follow the rules if one wants to succeed.”
What is a shift in person?
What part of speech is quickly in this sentence: “He ran quickly”?
What is an adverb?
What type of sentence is: “She likes pizza and he likes pasta.”
What is a compound sentence?
Fill in the blank: “I love ___ new puppy.”
What is their?
In the sentence “The dog barked loudly,” what is the subject?
What is The dog?
Is there a shift in person or number?: “If a student wants to succeed, they must work hard.”
What is a shift in number?
What part of speech is the word under in: “The cat hid under the bed”?
What is a preposition?
What kind of sentence is this? “Because it was raining, we stayed inside.”
What is a complex sentence?
Choose the correct word: “You left ___ book on the table.”
on the table.”What is your?
What is the predicate in: “My teacher assigned homework.”
What is assigned homework?
Restate this to fix the shift: “A person must do their best.”
What is: “A person must do his or her best”?
Identify the part of speech for blue in: “She wore a blue dress.”
What is an adjective?
A sentence with one subject and one predicate is called what?
What is a simple sentence?
Fill in the blank: “We went ___ the park.”
What is to?
Identify the simple subject: “The tall, strong quarterback threw the ball.”
What is quarterback?
Is this sentence correct? “We studied for the test, and you should too.”
What is no, there is a shift in person?
What part of speech is the word ouch?
What is an interjection?
What kind of sentence is: “He walked to the store, and he bought milk.”
What is a compound sentence?
Choose the correct version: “___ going to love this movie!”
What is You’re?
Identify the complete predicate: “The birds in the tree sang a beautiful melody.”
What is sang a beautiful melody?
Explain how to fix this: “When one goes to the mall, you should bring money.”
What is: Make it consistent—use “one” or “you,” not both?
Name all 8 parts of speech.
What are noun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun, preposition, conjunction, interjection?
Identify the sentence type: “Although I was tired, I stayed up and finished the project.”
What is a complex sentence?
Fix the sentence: “Their going too the game with there friends.”
What is: “They’re going to the game with their friends.”
Which word is both subject and predicate in: “Stop!”
What is You (understood subject) / Stop (predicate)?