Parts of Speech
Match this part of speech to its definition: "Describes a noun."
What is an adjective?
Identify this sentence type: What time is the show?
What is interrogative?
In the sentence, The boy ran quickly, identify the subject.
What is the boy?
The dog barked.
(Diagram with dog as subject and barked as verb.)
Is this a complete sentence or a fragment?
Walking through the forest.
Identify the part of speech of the word in italics: The dog ran quickly.
What is an adverb?
Write an example of an imperative sentence.
Examples vary (e.g., Please close the door.).
In the sentence, The boy and his dog played outside, is the subject simple or compound?
What is compound?
The cat slept on the couch.
(Diagram with cat as subject and slept as verb.)
correct the run-on: She went to the store it was closed.
What is She went to the store, but it was closed.
Write a sentence using an interjection, and underline the interjection.
Examples vary (e.g., Wow! The food smells amazing.).
Identify the sentence type: I can't believe we won the championship!
What is exclamatory?
Write a sentence with a compound predicate.
Examples vary (e.g., She sang a song and danced gracefully.).
Create a sentence with a compound subject, then diagram the subjects and verb.
Examples vary (e.g., Sarah and Tom played. Sarah and Tom as subjects, played as verb.)
Rewrite this fragment as a complete sentence:
While we were waiting for the bus.
What is While we were waiting for the bus, it started to rain.
"We went to the park, ______ we stayed there all afternoon."
What is "and"?
Rewrite this declarative sentence as an exclamatory sentence:
"The sunset is beautiful."
What is The sunset is beautiful!
In the sentence, My friends and I are studying hard for exams, underline the predicate.
What is are studying hard for exams?
In the sentence, The birds sang and flew, diagram the verb phrase.
(Diagram sang and flew as verbs branching from birds.)
Correct the sentence: The dog barked loudly it woke up the neighbors.
What is The dog barked loudly, and it woke up the neighbors.
Name three examples of prepositions.
What are words like under, over, through?
List all four sentence types.
What are declarative, interrogative, exclamatory, and imperative?
Write a sentence where the subject is implied, and identify the subject.
Examples vary (e.g., Go to your room! Subject: You).
Write your own sentence and diagram its subject and verb.
Examples vary.
Write your own run-on sentence, then correct it.
Examples vary.