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Adjectives & Adverbs
Prepositions
Verbs
Subject & Predicate
Conjunctions & Miscellaneous
100
What do adjectives modify?
Nouns or pronouns
100
List 3 prepositions
in, of, among, out, etc
100
What is a verb?
An action or a state of being.
100
What is the definition of a subject?
A subject is whom/what the sentence is about.
100
Identify the pronouns in the following sentence: I would like some of those please!
I some those
200
What three parts of speech could an adverb modify?
Verb, adjective, or another adverb
200
What is the difference between a phrase and a clause?
A clause has a subject and a verb. A phrase has a subject OR a verb OR neither.
200
“Men at sometime were masters of their fates” (Cassius, Julius Caesar). What type of verb is WERE?
Intransitive Linking
200
What is a complete predicate?
The complete predicate is the verb + all of its modifiers.
200
How many coordinating conjunctions are there?
Seven. They can be remembered using the acronym "FANBOYS".
300
What questions do adjectives answer?
Which one? What kind? Whose? How many / How much?
300
Identify the prepositional phrase(s) in the following sentence: The Knights of the Round Table traveled through the whole world.
of the Round Table through the whole world
300
What three questions do you ask when trying to figure out the type of verb?
1) Is the verb an action? 2) Is the subject doing the action? 3) Is there a direct object?
300
Identify the COMPLETE subject and the COMPLETE predicate in the following sentence: "The “Red Death” had long devastated the country” (Poe 132).
Complete subject - The "Red Death" Complete predicate - had long devastated the country
300
In the following sentence, is "that" a pronoun or an adjective? "I want that lemon."
Adjective - it's modifying lemon.
400
What questions do adverbs answer?
Where? When? How? Why? To what extent?
400
Write a sentence using two different prepositions.
Answers will differ.
400
“No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it" (Tolkien). What type of verb is "can resist"? How do you know?
Transitive Active The subject is performing the action, and there is a direct object.
400
What is the simple subject and simple predicate of the following sentence: “Your lullaby would waken a drunken goblin!”
Simple subject - lullaby Simple predicate - would waken
400
List all of the coordinating conjunctions.
For And Nor But Or Yet So
500
"as in uffish thought he stood" is a line from "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll. What part of speech is "uffish"? What adverb or adjective question does it answer?
"Adjective" - It modifies thought and answers the question: "Which thought?"
500
Identify the prepositional phrase(s) in the following sentence: “She put the stone into the arms of Cronus, the earlier king of the gods and the mighty son of Heaven” (CG&H 17).
into the arms of Cronus of the gods of Heaven
500
Write a sentence using a transitive passive verb.
Example: The man was rescued from the guillotine by the Scarlet Pimpernel.
500
Circle the simple subject, underline the complete subject, box the simple predicate, and double underline the complete predicate : “This present is an elegant doll, with movable eyelids and a momma sound” (Gibson 16).
Complete subject: This present Complete predicate: is an elegant doll, with movable eyelids and a momma sound Simple subject: present Simple predicate: is
500
What two words are linked by the conjunction? What role do they play in the sentence(subjects, verbs, direct objects, predicate nominatives, or predicate adjectives?) The Scarlet Pimpernel was clever but also brave.
Clever, brave - They are predicate adjectives.