A group of words that contains a subject and a verb yet cannot stand alone as a sentence.
What is a subordinate clause?
100
A prepositional phrase that is used to modify a verb, adjective, or another adverb.
What is an adverb phrase?
100
A noun or pronoun that usually comes between the subject and the verb and tells "to whom or what" or "for whom or what?"
What is an indirect object?
100
A pronoun that does not refer to a specific person, place, or thing.
What is an indefinite pronoun?
100
this, that, these, those
What are demonstrative adjectives?
200
A complete thought that can stand by itself as a sentence.
What is an independent clause?
200
A prepositional phrase that modifies a noun or pronoun.
What is an adjective phrase?
200
For centuries, people have enjoyed games of strategy.
"games" in the sentence
What is the direct object?
200
The form a word takes to show whether it is singular or plural?
What is number?
200
What, which, who, whom, whose
What are interrogative pronouns?
300
Another name for a subordinate clause that does not express a complete thought.
What is a dependent clause?
300
The adjective phrase in the following sentence:
Yesterday we went to an exhibit of rare coins.
What is "of rare coins"?
300
The airport appears very busy.
The word "busy"
What is the predicate adjective?
300
The word to which a pronoun refers.
What is an antecedent?
300
Myself, ourselves, himself, itself
What are reflexive or intensive pronouns?
400
The adjective clause in the following sentence:
The art paper that you are using really soaks up ink.
What is "that you are using"?
400
After swimming lessons, Aunt Helen drove us home.
"After swimming lessons" in the above sentence...and the word "drove"
What is the adverb phrase and what does it modify?
400
A word in the predicate that renames the subject.
What is a predicate noun?
400
The ballerina with long black braids (has, have) been my ballet teacher for two years.
"with long black braids"and the correct verb form
What is the prepositional phrase and "has"
400
A word that expresses action and has an object to receive that action.
What is a transitive verb?
500
The adverb clause in the following sentence and what it modifies:
Tiny wildflowers sprang up wherever they could.
What is "wherever they could" and what is "sprang"?
500
The questions an adverb phrase can answer...
What is "How?", "When?", "Where?", and "To what extent?"
500
Didn't she eventually become a senator?
The verb and the complement in the sentence above.
What is "Did become" and what is "senator"?
500
Either the engineers or their boss (has, have) made this mistake.
The correct verb form...
What is "has"?
500
A word that shows the relationship between a noun or pronoun and another word in the sentence. It is the beginning of a group of words that only has an object and no verb.