Parts of Speech
What is a noun?
A person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a fragment?
A broken sentence / An incomplete thought
What is a run-on sentence?
A clause with more than one complete thought/sentence in it.
What is a possessive noun?
A person, place, thing, or idea that owns or has something.
Although she said it.
This is a fragment.
Words that describe nouns.
What three things does a clause need to be a sentence?
A subject, verb, and complete thought.
How do you fix a run-on sentence?
Add a period after the first complete thought and any complete thoughts that come after.
What gets added to a noun to make it possessive?
Either a apostrophe s or just an apostrophe.
I went to the park the swing was rusty.
This is a run-on sentence.
What are verbs?
Action or state of being words.
What is the opposite of a fragment?
A run-on sentence.
What is the difference between a contraction and a possessive noun?
A contraction is two words combined. A possessive noun shows ownership.
The artists' painting was being shown at the gallery.
Artists' should be artist's because there is only one painting and one painter.
What is a preposition?
A time, space, or location word.
What type of clause depends on a complete sentence to make sense?
A dependent clause
What part of speech could you add to a run-on to make it a sentence?
A conjunction
A plural noun that ends in s.
Sara went to the park to play soccer with her friend, but they had to leave because there was a gigantic party going on and it was too crowded.
Nothing
What is an adverb?
A word that describes a verb, adjective, or another adverb.
What connects and independent and dependent clause?
Subordinating conjunction
What is it called when you connect two complete thoughts with a comma?
A comma splice.
What word is the one exception to the rule about how to make a noun or pronoun possessive?
Its
The bells ringing was melodic and beautiful.
Bells should be bell's because the ringing belongs to the bells.