Parts of Speech
There are this many parts of speech in the English language
To parse a subject, you do this
What is underline once and write "S" above?
To parse a direct object, you do this
What is circle and write DO above it?
Adjectival elements describe this part of speech
What are nouns and pronouns?
To parse an adverbial element, you do this
What is draw an arrow to the word it modifies and label it adv. or adv. prep?
List three of the parts of speech
What are noun, verb, adverb, adjective, preposition, conjunction, pronoun, interjection?
To parse a verb, you do this
What is underline twice and write PV, HV, or LV above it?
A direct object does this with a transitive predicate verb
What is receives the action?
To parse an adjectival element, you do this
What is draw an arrow to the word it modifies and label it adj. or adj. prep.?
True or false: adverbial prepositional phrase can move around in a sentence
What is true? Like other adverbs, adverbial prepositional phrases can be placed correctly in different places in a sentence.
A pronoun replace this in a sentence
What is a noun?
There are this many helping verbs
What is 23?
True or false: a direct object can be in a prepositional phrase
What is false? The object in a prepositional phrase is called the object of the preposition, not a direct object
Adjectival elements answer these four questions
What are how many, whose, which one, what kind?
This is the adverbial prepositional phrase in the following sentence: The boy ran to the park.
What is (to the park)?
Adverbial elements are able to modify this in a sentence
What are verbs, adverbs, and adjectives?
Subjects and verbs must agree in these two ways
What is person and number?
The most common word order in the English language is this
True or False: an adjectival prepositional phrase can move around in a sentence
What is false? Adjectival prepositional phrases directly follow the noun they modify.
Adverbial elements answer these five questions
What are where, when, why, how, to what extent?
List the FANBOY conjunctions
What are for, and, nor, but, or, yet?
List ten helping verbs
What are am, is, are, was, were, being, been, be, have, has, had, do, does, did, shall, should, will, would, may, might, must, can, could?
List the four main rules of syntax in the English language
What are the subject and verb must agree, sentences follow a specific word order, proper use of articles and prepositions, proper use of punctuation?
Prepositional phrases are diagrammed in this way
What is on an elbow/L-shape underneath the noun or pronoun they modify?
Say how you would parse the adverbial phrase in the following sentence: Theo walked around the lawn.
What is 1) put parentheses around (around the lawn), 2) label "around" with a P for preposition, 3) label "lawn" with OP for object of the preposition, 4) draw an arrow from "the" to "lawn" and label it adj., 5) draw an arrow from the prepositional phrase to walked and label it adv. prep.?