Parts of Speech
Person, place or a thing.
What is a noun?
Riley waited for the bus.
What is a simple sentence?
Indicates pause between parts of a sentence.
What is a comma?
The winter was cold and snowy.
What is a independent clause?
used at the end of a sentence.
What is a period?
To modify or describe.
What is a adjective?
How late can I stay at Bob's house?
What is a interrogative sentence?
Used to mark the beginning and end of a title or passage.
What is a quotation mark?
On the kitchen floor.
What is a prepositional phrase?
Gently
What is a adverb?
Describes an action, state or occurrence.
What is a verb?
I like cake, and he likes pie.
What is a compound sentence?
indicates a pause between two main clauses.
What is a semicolon?
After school was over.
What is a dependent clause?
Used to precede a list of items, a quotation, or an expansion or explanation.
What is a colon?
The word after a noun or pronoun and expresses a relation to another word in the clause.
What is a preposition?
A sentence containing a subordinate clause or clauses.
What is a complex sentence?
Used to join words to indicate that they have a combined meaning or that they are in the grammar of a sentence.
What is a hyphen?
A modifier that attaches to a sentence or a noun, with no conjunction.
What is an absolute phrase?
Typically introduced by a conjunction, that forms part of and is dependent on a main clause
What is a subordinate clause?
A remark or exclamation.
What is a interjection?
Has two or more coordinate independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses.
What is a compound-complex sentence?
Indicates an intentional omission of a word, sentence, or whole section from from a text without altering its original meaning.
What is a ellipsis mark?
Milly, my sister, went to school.
What is a appositive phrase?
A word that determines the kind of reference a noun or noun group has.
What is a determiner?