Sentence Types
What type of sentence makes a statement and ends with a period?
What is a Declarative sentence?
Is this a fragment or a complete sentence? "The energetic puppy barked at the mail carrier."
What is a Complete Sentence?
Fix this fragment by adding a subject: "Spilled the entire glass of chocolate milk."
What is "Marcus spilled the entire glass of chocolate milk" (or any valid subject)?
Choose the correct word: "Please place your coat over (there / their / they're) on the hook."
What is there? (Indicates a place)
Choose the correct verb: "The team of players (is / are) practicing on the field."
What is is? (Subject is singular team)
Identify the type of sentence: "Please open your grammar workbook to page forty-five."
What is an Imperative sentence? (Gives a command or request)
Is this a fragment or a complete sentence? "Running across the muddy soccer field."
What is a Sentence Fragment? (Missing a subject and helping verb)
Fix this fragment by adding a predicate/verb: "A long, dark tunnel beneath the ancient castle."
What is "A long, dark tunnel beneath the ancient castle stretched for miles" (or any valid predicate)?
Choose the correct word: "The hungry dog buried (its / it's) favorite bone in the backyard."
What is its? (Possessive form with no apostrophe)
Choose the correct verb: "Neither Marcus nor his friends (was / were) ready for the pop quiz."
What is were? (With neither/nor, verb agrees with the closer subject friends)
Identify the type of sentence: "How many pages do we have left to read in Chapter 4?"
What is an Interrogative sentence? (Asks a question)
Is this a fragment or a complete sentence? "Because we forgot to pack our umbrellas this morning."
What is a Sentence Fragment? (It is a dependent clause missing an independent main clause)
Turn this dependent clause fragment into a complete sentence: "After the final bell rang at 3:00 PM."
What is "After the final bell rang at 3:00 PM, the students walked to the buses" (or similar)?
Identify and correct the homophone error in this sentence: "The teacher asked us to write our names on the stationery."
What is changing stationery to stationery? Wait—trick question! The error is changing stationery (paper) to stationery? Let's fix that: "The parked car was standing completely still, so we used stationary (not stationery)."
Choose the correct verb: "The books on the teacher's desk (belongs / belong) to the school library."
What is belong? (Subject is plural books)
Identify the type of sentence: "We won the state championship in double overtime!"
What is an Exclamatory sentence? (Expresses strong emotion)
Is this a fragment or a complete sentence? "Built a massive wooden fort behind the school."
What is a Sentence Fragment? (Missing the subject—who built it?)
Correct this fragment so it becomes a complete exclamatory sentence: "Screaming loudly on the big roller coaster!"
What is "The kids were screaming loudly on the big roller coaster!"?
Choose the correct words: "(Your / You're) going to love reading (chapter / chaptor) four of The Giver."
What are You're and chapter?
Fix the subject-verb agreement error in this sentence: "Every student in the middle school grades have a locker."
What is "Every student in the middle school grades has a locker."? (Every student is singular)
Change this declarative sentence into an imperative sentence: "You need to write your full name at the top of the paper."
What is "Write your full name at the top of the paper."?
Is this a fragment or a complete sentence? "Listen!"
What is a Complete Sentence? (It is an imperative command with the understood subject [You] and verb listen)
Identify what core component is missing from this fragment: "Underneath the desk near the back wall."
What are both the subject and the verb (it is only a prepositional phrase)?
Correct the homophone errors in this sentence: "The knight road his horse past the castle gate and ate four pieces of bread."
What is changing knight to night? No, changing road to rode and four to flour? Let's use: "The knight [knight is correct, or change knight to night/etc.] rode his horse... ate four pieces..." -> Correction: rode (instead of road) is the main homophone fix here!
Fix the agreement error: "There is three different options for lunch today in the cafeteria."
What is "There are three different options for lunch today in the cafeteria."? (Subject is plural options)