Is the following clause an independent clause?
Ex: Holly ate a french fry.
What is yes?
100
What are the four sentence types?
What is simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex?
100
Where does the subject go?
What is at the beginning of the diagram?
100
Is a meter a pattern of stressed and stressed syllables, stressed and unstressed syllables, or unstressed and unstressed syllables in a poem?
What is stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem?
200
Is the following verb a linking verb or an action verb?
Ex: Fred is a good singer.
What is a linking verb?
200
Is the following clause an independent clause or a dependent clause?
Ex: Sam ate it
What is an independent clause?
200
Is the following sentence compound or complex?
Ex: Suzie wanted a cookie, so she went to Tom's Mom's Cookies.
What is compound?
200
Diagram the following sentence.
Ex: Mice eat cheese.
Correct or Incorrect
200
Is the following sentence an example of a simile or a metaphor?
Her life is a rollercoaster.
What is a metaphor?
300
What is a gerund, participle, and an infinitive?
Gerund: A verb functioning as a noun
Participle: A verb functioning as an adjective or an adverb
Infinitive: To + a verb
300
What is an independent and a dependent clause?
Independent: A clause that has a subject, a verb, and can stand alone as a complete thought.
Dependent: A clause that has a and a verb, but it does not express a complete thought.
300
For a sentence to be compound-complex, how many clauses do you need to have?
What is two or more independent clauses with one or more dependent clauses?
300
What does a gerund look like in a diagram?
I will check :)
300
Give me an example of personification.
I will check their answers.
400
What questions do adverbs answer?
How? When? Where? Why? To what extent?
400
Do you use a comma in sentence one or sentence two?
#1: Hannah bought a cake, because it was her sister's birthday.
Or...
#2: Because it was her sister's birthday, Hannah bought a cake.
What is sentence two?
400
What does the abbreviation 'FANBOYS' stand for?
What is for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so. They are coordinating conjunctions used in compound sentences.
400
How do you connect an independent clause and a dependent clause in a diagram?
What is by using a subordinating conjunction on a ___ connected by a dotted line?
400
Is the following sentence an example of assonance or consonance?
Ex: The ship has sailed to the far off shores.
Hint: Assonance is the similarity or repetition of a vowel sound in two or more words. Consonance is the repetition of consonant sounds within a line of verse.
What is consonance?
500
What are the prepositions in the sentence?
Ex: Jim went to the store with Sarah.
What is 'to' and 'with?'
500
What are three of five relative pronouns?
What is 'that,' 'which,' 'who,' 'whom,' 'whose.'
500
What does 'AAAWWUBBIS' stand for, and what sentence are they used in?
What is
After
Although
As
While
When
Until
Before
Because
If
Since.
They are used in compound-complex sentences. (Subordinating conjunction)
500
Diagram the following sentence:
The girl ate chocolate cake and a ham sandwich for lunch because she was hungry.