General Parts of Speech
names of particular people, places, things or ideas.
What is a proper noun?
Each simple sentence within a compound sentence.
What is a main or independent clause?
Tells what the subject does or has.
What is a predicate?
Correct the run-on sentence:
The dress I bought for the prom is beautiful but it was expensive.
What is The dress I bought for the prom is beautiful, but it was expensive?
a word that names an action and tells what a subject does.
What is an action verb?
The name of something that can't be recognized by the five senses.
What is an abstract noun?
Has a main or independent clause and one or more subordinate clauses
What is a complex sentence?
Has one subject and one predicate.
What is a simple sentence?
Identify whether this is a complete sentence or a sentence fragment:
All day.
What is fragment?
Identify what tense the underline verb is in:
Squirrels gather nuts every autumn in preparation for winter.
What is present tense?
A word that provides information about the size, shape, color, texture, feeling, sound, smell, number, or condition of a noun or a pronoun.
Has a subject and a predicate, but it cannot stand alone as a sentence.
What is a dependent/subordinate clause?
Contains two or more simple sentences joined by a comma and a coordinating conjunction or by a semicolon.
What is a compound sentence?
Correct the run-on sentence: My mom likes sweets but I only like pizza.
What is My mom likes sweets, but I only like pizza.
Write the correct form of the verb in future tense in the blank:
The dog ____________________ its tail for food. (wag)
What is will wag?
A word that modifies, or describes, a verb, an adjective, or another adverb.
What is an adverb?
What kind of clause is the bolded clause? (Dep/Ind)
They are playing music that I like to hear.
What is dependent/subordinate clause?
What type of sentence is this:
The rusty hinges creaked as Grant opened the old door.
Determine whether the fragment is missing a subject or predicate:
Live together in colonies.
What is subject?
Write the sentence below in future tense:
David runs home after school.
What is David will run home after school?
A word that shows the relation between a noun or a pronoun to another word in a sentence.
What is a preposition?
What kind of clause is the bolded clause? (Dep/Ind)
I will tell you what happened at the rink.
What is main clause/Independent clause?
What type of sentence is the following:
Leave the dance before midnight.
What is imperative?
Determine whether the fragment is missing a subject or predicate:
One queen,
What is predicate?
Correct the following sentence so it is in present tense:
Susan was able to walk home after school because she lived close.