Sentence Elements
Nouns/Pronouns
Verbs
Adjectives/Adverbs
Mechanics/Sentence Structure
100

Has one or more sentence parts missing, but they are understood

What is an elliptical sentence?

100
Plural possessive of "salmon"

What is "salmon's"?

100

Form of the verb: Joshua DID LEAD the Israelites.

What is emphatic?

100
These modify nouns/pronouns

What are adjectives?

100

The complete predicate comes before the complete subject

What is an inverted sentence?

200

Comes between the verb and the direct object and tells "to whom/for whom"

What is the indirect object?


200

Plural of "basis"

What is bases?

200

Change to progressive form: Mr. Collins ate the boiled potatoes. 

What is "Mr. Collins WAS EATING the boiled potatoes"?

200
T/F: A prepositional phrase can be used as EITHER an adjective or adverb.

What is True?

200

Gives a command or makes a request

What is an imperative sentence?

300

Immediately follows a noun or pronoun to identify or explain it

What is an appositive?

300

Three cases (jobs) of pronoun

What are nominative, objective, and possessive?

300
Name the verb tense: Calvin and Hobbes had slept out on the roof at night.

What is past perfect?

300

Give the comparative and superlative of "bad."

What is "worse, worst"?

300

Contains two or more independent clauses

What is a compound sentence?

400

Names the person or thing to whom one is speaking

What is the noun of direct address?

400
A ______ is the -ing form of a verb used as a noun.

What is a gerund?

400

Label the verb tense: Calvin has annoyed his babysitter for many years.

What is present perfect?

400

Less indicates how much about a singular, and ____ indicates how many about a plural noun.

What is fewer?

400

Put a ______ after yes/no, interjections, and other independent elements at the beginning of a sentence.

What is a comma?

500

Follows a linking verb and MODIFIES the subject

What is a predicate adjective?

500

Four possible genders of a noun

What are M, F, Common, and Neuter?

500

A _______ verb transfers action to a substantive in the sentence.

What is transitive?

500

Adverbs modify 4 things:

What are verbs, adverbs, adjective, and verbals?

500

A ______ is used to join some compound words.

What is a hyphen? (great-grandfather, all-powerful, six- and eight-foot lengths)