A group of related words containing a subject and a verb.
What is a clause?
100
Consists of an independent clause.
What is a simple sentence?
100
A person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a noun?
100
Who or what the sentence is about
What is a subject?
200
a phrase that renames the subject
What is an appositive phrase?
200
A clause that can stand alone as a sentence.
What is an independent clause?
200
Has two or more independent clauses.
What is a compound sentence?
200
A word that takes the place of a noun.
What is a pronoun?
200
What the subject is, has, does, or feels.
What is a predicate?
300
a phrase that lacks a verb or subject and modifies another word in a sentence
What is a prepositional phrase?
300
A clause that cannot stand alone as a sentence.
What is a dependent or subordinate clause?
300
Consists of one independent clause and one or more subordinate (dependent) clauses.
What is a complex sentence?
300
A word that modifies a noun or pronoun. It tells which one, what kind, or how many.
What is an adjective?
300
A word that gives details or modifies other words in the sentence.
What is a modifier?
400
Identify the adjective phrase:
Before the first indoor rink, ice skating was limited to the cold temperatures of winter.
What is "of winter"?
400
identify the type of clause in parentheses:
(Speed skating joined the Winter Olympic lineup) in 1924 for men and 1960 for women.
What is an independent clause?
400
Has two or more independent clauses and one or more subordinate clauses.
What is a compound-complex sentence?
400
A word that modifies a verb, adjective, or adverb. It tells where, when, how, to what extent, or in what manner.
What is an adverb?
400
Two or more simple subjects.
What is a compound subject?
500
Identify the adverb phrase:
Ice skates as we know them today were invented in the Netherlands.
What is "in the Netherlands"?
500
Identify the type of clause in parentheses:
You probably would not recognize the earliest known ice skates, (which archeologists have found in Russia, Scandinavia, and other parts of northern Europe).
What is a subordinate or dependent clause?
500
Identify the sentence structure:
If you read about ice skating, you will discover that figure skating was added to the Winter Olympics in 1908.