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What is a prepositional phrase?
Prepositional phrases show location and relationships between words.
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What is the type of verbal that starts with "to" and and acts like a noun, adjective, or adverb?
Infinitive
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What two parts of speech do you need in a clause?
A subject and a verb.
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What is the error in the sentence? She likes to ride her bike, she rides her bike at Buhl Park all weekend.
Comma Splice: the two sentences are joined together with a comma instead of a period.
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What is the difference between "it's" and "its"
it's stands for it is its is a possessive pronoun
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Are subjects ever located in prepositional phrases?
No! You can cross prepositional phrases out of a sentence to find the subject and the verb.
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Which type of verbal acts like a noun but ends in "ing"
Gerund
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Which type of clause answers the questions "how much," "how many," "which one," or "what kind"?
Adjective Clause
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What is the error in the following sentence? Because I said so.
It is a sentence fragment because it begins with the subordinating conjunction "because."
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What is the difference between "there," "their," and "they're"?
There = location Their = possession They're = they are
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A prepositional phrase = preposition + ________
A prepositional phrase = preposition + NOUN
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Which type of verbal acts like an adjective and usually end in "ing" or "ed"?
Participle
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Which type of clause tells where, when, how, why, to what extent, or under what conditions?
Adverb Clause
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What are the two ways you can join sentences to create a compound complex sentence?
Independent Clause ; Independent Clause Independent Clause , FANBOYS Independent Clause
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What is the difference between "affect" and "effect"?
Affect is the action (verb), and effect is a noun.
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What is the prepositional phrase in the sentence? Spongebob Squarepants lives in a pineapple under the sea.
"in a pineapple" OR "under the sea"
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What is the verbal in the sentence? Tell me the word and the type. Dancing is his favorite hobby although he will not dance in public.
Dancing--gerund
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Which type of clause acts like a subject, direct object, indirect object, object of the preposition, or predicate noun?
Noun Clause
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What is the difference between a compound and a complex sentence?
A compound sentence is two sentences (independent clauses joined together). A complex sentence is a dependent clause joined with an independent clause.
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What is the difference between "among" and "between"?
Among is three or more; between is two.
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What is the prepositional phrase in the following sentence? When she slipped on the ice, her cellphone shattered, which made her cry.
"on the ice"
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What is the participle in the sentence? Breaking glass always means trouble when you are working in a restaurant.
Breaking
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What type of clause is used in the sentence below: The boy wearing the long-sleeve shirt is sweating profusely in the sun.
The boy wearing the long-sleeve shirt: Noun Clause
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Which sentence type is shown here: Because she stayed out past curfew, she is grounded for a week; now she's in her room pouting.
Compound-Complex
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Is the sentence below correct? Why or why not? Neither the snow nor the rain stop the newspaper delivery person.
Incorrect! "Stop" needs to agree with "rain" since we have the conjunction "nor."