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In the sentence: We had chicken at the Chinese restaurant; then, we had icecream. What kind of noun is "chicken"?
What is a common noun?
100
Ed (chooses, choose) clear goals for his life.
What is chooses? singular subject, singular verb
100
What type of noun is love?
What is an abstract noun?
100
Is the following a sentence or a fragment: As soon as we settled into the house.
What is a fragment?
100
Independent or dependent clause? Some people are fearful of purchasing items with food preservatives.
What is an independent clause?
200
Name the nouns in the following sentence and tell me what types of nouns they are: McDonald's is where I usually have lunch because it is close to my office.
What is McDonald's (proper), lunch (common), and office (common)?
200
Every Halloween, the children (goes , go) trick or treating and (stay , stays) up all night.
What is go and stay? plural subject, plural verb
200
Read the sentence and, then, switch it to future tense. Jeanette and Brian went dumpster diving and found food for their grumbling stomaches.
What is will go, will find?
200
Read the following fragment. What do you need to fix it? The crazy bag lady with the polka-dot swimsuit.
What is a verb?
200
Independent or Dependent clause? So that you can make as many cherry pies as you want to.
What is a dependent clause?
300
Read the following sentence and complete it: Yvonne trusted Marybeth and (he / him) to tell the workers about the change in the plan.
What is him? Objective pronoun
300
Neither John nor his teachers (have, has) a solution to his dilemma.
What is have? Teachers is the subject closest to the verb.
300
Where does the comma go in the following sentence? Although Jackie doesn't like to play cards she will play Phase 10 with her little brother.
What is between cards and she?
300
Read the following fragment. What does it need? Around the bend . . .
What is a subject and a verb?
300
Read the following clause and then restate it as an independent clause: Although Geoffrey hated cooking stewed beets.
What is Geoffrey hated cooking stewed beets?
400
Read the following sentence and complete: Let's you and (I , me) organize the closet for the office.
What is me? Let's you and me Between you and me
400
My brother or my sister (take, takes) the dog for his daily walk.
What is takes?
400
Jessica and Melvin shrieked with glee as the band played several awesome songs. Fill in the blanks with the proper pronouns: ____________ shrieked with glee as _____ played several awesome songs.
What is they and it?
400
Read the following paragraph and identify the fragment. Then, fix it. The doctor said the bandages were necessary to prevent infection. Dad stared at the doctor. "To hell with infection," he said. He told the doctor that I was going to be scarred for life because of him, but by God, I wasn't the only one who was going to walk out of there scarred.
What is no fragment?
400
What are five dependent clause markers or subordinating conjunctions?
What is WASBIT?
500
The murderer in this case was (him, he).
What is he? Be verb
500
Harold, one of the best lawyers, (selects , select) the cases very carefully.
What is selects?
500
What's missing in the following sentence? What type of clause/sentence error is it? The neighbor with the very large nose and missing front teeth.
What is a verb and a fragment?
500
Read the following paragraph and identify the fragment. Then, fix it. When my family came to visit, their arguing and laughing and singing and shouting echoed through the quite halls. The nurses made shussing noices and Mom and Dad and Lori and Brian lowered their voices for a few minutes. Then slowly grew loud again. Everyone always turned and stared at Dad.
What is Then slowly grew loud again. Subject needed (they)?
500
Read the following clause and change it into a dependent clause. Then, add an independent clause to make a sentence. Don't forget to punctuate it correctly.: The weather was sunny.
What is (subordinating conjunction) the weather was sunny, (independent clause)?