A group of words made up of a preposition, its object, and any of the object's modifiers.
What is a prepositional phrase?
100
This sentence contains two or more simple sentences, usually joined by a comma and a coordinating conjunction.
What is a Compound Sentence.
100
This type of pronoun refers to an unspecified number or thing.
What is an Indefinite Pronoun.
100
This is used to separate clauses, phrases, or words in a series.
What is a comma.
200
A word that shows the relationship between its object (the noun or pronoun that follows it) and some other word in the sentence.
What is a preposition?
200
Expresses a complete thought and has a subject and a verb. It is the main thought of a sentence.
What is an Independent Clause?
200
This term is used when two separate sentences are incorrectly joined with only a comma.
What is a comma splice.
200
What verb form must a sentence have if the sentence includes a compound subject that refers to a single person or unit.
What is a Singular Verb.
200
This may be used to join two sentence that are closely related. When doing so, you do not capitalize the first word of the second independent clause.
What is a semicolon.
300
Identify the part of speech placed in "quotations" in the following sentence.
We are driving "too rapidly" for the weather.
What is an adverb?
300
This acronym can be utilized when determining whether an independent or dependent clause is present.
What is AWHITEBUS?
300
A group of words beginning with a subordinate clause but lacks in grammatical structure to be a complete sentence.
What is a Fragment.
300
The primary difference between these two kinds of verbs is how they form their past and past participle forms.
What are Regular and Irregular Verbs.
300
This is used to show: omission, form possessive of noun, form the plural of letters and numbers.
What is an Apostrophe
400
Identify the two types of nouns.
What is a common and proper noun?
400
In the following sentence identify the dependent clause.
Sara did not like the photograph because she was not smiling.
What is "because she was not smiling".
400
This phrase is used when information is set off by commas on both sides.
Example: The three boys, on the other hand, enjoyed the movie.
What is an interrupter.
400
The following words are in what verb form?
Brought
Chosen
Known
Paid
Stolen
What is the Past Participle.
400
When in doubt whether a noun is possessive, what phrase can be used?
What is "The ________belongs to ________.
500
This part of speech joins words, phrases, or sentences and can be identified through this acronym.
What is a Coordinating Conjunction: For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So
500
This type of sentence has one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses.
What is a Complex Sentence.
500
Determine whether the following sentence has a comma splice or fused sentence (run-on) error.
"When Matt shaved his head, his mother worried that he had joined a cult the real reason for the bald head, however, was that Matt could get more attention from girls who thought he was sick with a dread disease".
What is a Run-on or Fused sentence.
500
When a compound subject contains both a singular and a plural noun joined by "or" or "nor", the verb should agree with the part of the subject that is nearer the ______.
What is the verb.
500
In the following sentence, identify the verb form of "oxen's".
"The oxen's owner is selling his land"