prepositions
Correct this sentence with a preposition: "You are afraid everything."
What is of?
Identify the correct subject/verb agreement: Each of the students (tries, try) to outdo each other.
What is tries?
Calvin (lay, laid) the jacket on the bed.
What is laid?
This is the linking verb in this sentence: " The boys are in big trouble. "
What is are?
and, but, or, nor, for, so, yet are all ____________.
What are conjunctions?
This is the prepositional phrase:
winning an event
outside Dominoes Pizza
What is "outside Dominoes Pizza"
Either the teacher or (he, him) will do the reading.
What is he?
(Sit, Set) the birdcage on the floor.
What is set?
Name the action verb and the linking verb in this sentence: "The ghosts appeared suddenly and they appear frightening."
appeared, appears
This actor won "best actor" at the academy awards for his role in Oppenheimer.
Who is Robert Downey Jr.?
These are the prepositional phrases in the following sentence:
About a half century ago at Mount Wilson Observatory, Edwin Hubble discovered that many other galazies existed outside the Milky Way.
about a half century ago
at Mount Wilson Observatory
outside the Milky Way
This is the mistake in this sentence.The string on the package was to loose.
What is to - too
This sentence is passive/active voice. "The wheel on Mr. Whitworth's truck fell off."
What is active?
Insert the appropriate linking verb: "Her garden ________ dried and brown in the drought.
What is : is, appears, seems etc.
The spring sports have begun this week. Name the adverb.
What is week?
These are not the prepositions in this list:
am, is, of, with, for, under, are, to, in, was, over, through, appear
What is am, is, are was, appear?
Ms. Conrow, (who, whom) I know has a meeting today.
What is whom?
Place the correct form of drown: "no one has ______ at that lake."
What is drowned?
The dog smelled the thawing roast. The verb is ____
and is (action, linking)
What is smelled, action.
Name 2 greenhouse gases.
what are carbon dioxide, methane, water vapor, nitrous oxide.
Finish this sentence with an appropriate prepositional phrase: "The ski shop is __________________ of the street.
What is " by the side, in the front of, in front of
This is the subject and verb in this sentence: "Several of the dogs tried to outrun the car."
What is several and tried
This is the past participle of begin.
What is have begun?
Thes verbs help to make a statement; they serve as a link between two words.
What are linking verbs?
Five, wriggly kittens are healthy. Name the adjectives.
five, wriggly, healthy