Parts of Speech
Names a person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a noun
Join words, phrases, or clauses and show the connection between the joined pieces
What is a conjunction
A sentence must contain these two things
What is a subject and a verb
Contains a single independent clause. (A complete sentence that makes sense and can stand alone)
Simple sentence
Cannot function as a complete sentence.
What is a fragment
Words that are used to stand in for nouns
What is a pronoun
For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So are what type of conjunction?
What is a coordinating conjunction
Names who or what the sentence is about.
What is subject
Contains two independent clauses (A sentence that can stand alone and makes sense by itself)
What is a compound sentence
Occurs when punctuation is missing at the end of a sentence
What is a run-on sentence
expresses action, occurrence, or state of being
What is a verb
Show connection between pairs: both/and, either/or, neither/nor, not only/but, whether/ or
What is a correlative conjunction
States the action of the subject
What is a predicate
Contains an independent clause (A complete sentence that can stand alone and makes sense by itself) and a dependent clause (an incomplete sentence that can not stand alone and does not make sense by itself)
What is a complex sentence
Occurs when a comma is used incorrectly to combine two independent clauses into a single sentence.
What is a comma splice
Any word or words which modify or describe a noun or pronoun.
What is an adjective
Joins dependent clause to an independent clause
What is a subordinating conjunction
What is the simple subject in the following sentence?
The biggest tree in the yard is an apple tree.
What is tree
Contains two or more independent clauses and one or more dependent clause. Requires either a semicolon or a comma with a coordinating conjunction.
What is a compound-complex sentence
How would you correct the run-on sentence?
I climbed up the mountain the view at the top was breathtaking.
What is I climbed up the mountain, and the view at the top was breathtaking.
Usually ends in -ly and answers the questions when, where, how, and why
What is an adverb
Find the Correlative conjunctions
Neither John nor Susan can come to the meeting.
What is neither/nor
What is the complete predicate in the following sentence?
Bruce Wayne is a wealthy man.
What is is a wealthy man
Identify the following sentence
uI went surfing, but my sister went snorkeling.
What is a compound sentence
the grammatical rule that the verb/verbs in a sentence must match the number and the person/point-of-view of the subject.
What is subject-verb agreement