Parts of Speech
Names a person, place, thing, activity, or idea.
What is a noun?
This is revealed when you ask subject-verb who or subject-verb what.
What is a direct object?
This goes on the horizontal line after the extended vertical line.
What is a predicate (verb)?
She gave me the ball because we were playing keep away.
What is an indirect object?
Go get your brother off the swing.
What is simple?
It replaces a noun in order to avoid repetition.
What is a pronoun?
This renames the subject and comes after a linking verb.
What is a predicate nominative?
This goes on the horizontal line after a diagonal line that stops at the horizontal line.
What is a predicate nominative or predicate adjective?
I turned on the lights although it was still light outside.
What is a subordinating conjunction?
She ate cheeseburgers and fries.
What is compound?
It is a word used to connect words, phrases, or clauses together.
What is a conjunction?
It is enclosed in parentheses.
What is a prepositional phrase?
This goes on a dotted line connecting two subjects.
What is a coordinating conjunction?
Put yourself in her position first and then ask her about it.
What is a direct object?
He cannot come with us unless he takes a shower.
What is complex?
It is a word or phrase used as a strong expression of feeling or emotion.
What is an interjection?
It is enclosed in brackets.
What is a clause?
This goes on a dotted line connecting two verbs.
What is a subordinating conjunction?
As she hobbled slowly to the benches, she was not herself.
What is a predicate nominative?
What is complex?
Relates a noun or pronoun to another word.
What is a preposition?
When a noun modifies another word in the sentence, answering how, when, where, or why, it is functioning as this.
What is an adverbial noun?
This goes on a horizontal line under the verb.
What is an indirect object?
His breath seemed shallow as he sat on the bench.
What is a linking verb?
Tom went home and he hid under the bed because he wanted to hear what they were saying.
What is compound complex?