A verb that connects the subject to its complement
What is a linking verb?
100
Mrs. G calls this the skeleton of the sentence
What is the subject, the verb, and the complement to complete the thought?
100
A person, place, thing, or idea
What is a noun?
100
Between independent clauses or separating items in a list that also contains commas
What are uses for a semi-colon?
100
Words capitalized in a title
What is the first word, last word, and other important parts of speech like nouns, verbs, pronouns, adjectives, and adverbs?
200
A verb that has a receiver for its action
What is a transitive verb?
200
a verb and any helping verbs
What makes up a verb phrase?
200
A word that shows action or existence (being)
What is a verb?
200
After interrogative sentences
What is the use for a question mark?
200
The words that should be capitalized in the following:
arm & hammer baking soda, grand coulee dam, secretary of state, president obama
What is Arm, Hammer, Grand Coulee Dam, President Obama
300
A verb-like word that ends in -ing and is used as a noun in a sentence
What is a gerund?
300
It answers "who" or "what" after an action verb.
What is the direct object?
300
A word that replaces a noun
What is a pronoun?
300
Separating items in a list, between cities and states, separating non-essential items from a sentence, between dates and years, following introductory phrases, etc.
What are uses for a comma?
300
The words that should be capitalized in the following:
united states air force, federal bureau of investigation, high school, chemistry, hungarian
What is United States Air Force, Federal Bureau Investigation, Hungarian
400
A verb-like word that has a variety of endings and acts like an adjective in a sentence
What is a participle?
400
Two or more complete thoughts that are not punctuated correctly
What is a run-on?
400
A word that modifies a noun or pronoun
What is an adjective?
400
A complete thought, a formal greeting in a letter, a chapter of the Bible, the hour
What is needed before using a colon?
400
The words that should be capitalized in the following:
the lord of the rings, uncle brian, "hear me when i call, o god of my righteousness."
What is The Lord Rings, Uncle Brian, Hear, I, O God
500
When the action of the verb is not done by the subject of that sentence
What is the passive voice?
500
A group of words that includes a subject and a verb but does not express a complete thought until it is added to an independent clause
What is a subordinate clause?
500
It modifies an adjective, adverb, or verb
What is an adverb?
500
Foreign words, titles of books, magazines, plays, movies, trains, and words uses as words
What are the uses for italics?
500
The following words that should be capitalized:
the oshkosh northwestern, the south, we drove southwest, mennonite church