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Types of sentences sentences
Subjects
Nouns
Aprostrophes
Appositives
100
This type of sentence expresses strong feeling and ends in an exclamation point.
What is exclamatory?
100
This part of the sentence names whom or what the sentence is about?
What is a subject?
100
This type of noun is always capitalized.
What is a proper noun?
100
This is formed by combining two words into one by leaving out one or more letters and using an apostrophe.
What is a contraction?
100
A noun used next to another noun to identify or add information to the subject.
What is an appositive?
200
This type of sentence gives a command or makes a request. It ends in a period.
What is an imperative sentence?
200
This includes all of the words in the subject of a sentence.
What is a complete subject?
200
This type of noun names any person, place, or thing and not a specific person, place, or thing.
What is a common noun?
200
This forms a possessive of a plural noun already ending in s.
What is s'?
200
Appositives can be found here in a sentence.
What is the beginning, middle, or end of a sentence?
300
This is a group of words that does not express a complete thought.
What is a sentence fragment?
300
The main word in the complete subject.
What is a simple subject?
300
This type of noun uses your five senses.
What is a concrete noun?
300
This is what you add MOST of the time to make a noun possessive.
What is an 's?
300
This is used to set off an appositive word or phrase.
What is a comma?
400
This is a sentence that contains two or more simple sentences joined by a comma and a conjuntion or a semicolon.
What is a compound sentence?
400
Most statements have the subject here.
What is the beginning of the sentence?
400
Make the most important part of the word plural.
How do you make hyphenated and compound subjects plural?
400
The possessive form of "Ellie" would need this.
What is 's?
400
An appositive word or phrase can be located anywhere in a sentence as long as it is next to this.
What is the noun it identifies?
500
This is two or more sentences incorrectly written as one sentence.
What is a run-on sentence?
500
This has two or more simple subjects that have the same predicate.
What is a compound subject?
500
This type of noun names a group of individuals.
What is a collective noun?
500
The possessive form of "monkeys" would need this.
What is '?
500
Identify the apposive phrase in this sentence - "An artist, John, is Ken's friend."
What is "an artist"?