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Parts of Speech
Sentence "Chunks"
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Easily Confused
Application
100
Functions as the predicate in the sentence.
What is the verb / verb phrase?
100
A sequence of words containing a subject or predicate
What is a phrase?
100
Used to form the possessive form of nouns
What is the apostrophe s?
100
Who's/Whose that girl?
What is "Who's?"
100
Jasper Basil ate all of his carrots first and left the grain in the bowl. Function of the pronoun in this sentence.
What is possessive?
200
Adverbs modify these other parts of speech.
What are verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs?
200
The doer of the sentence (often a noun phrase).
What is the subject?
200
Used after introductory phrases and clauses
What is the comma?
200
Who/Whom was that masked man?
What is "Whom?"
200
The alligator in the sewer terrorized the suburban neighborhood. The function of the prepositional phrase in this sentence.
What is adjectival?
300
Can act as a substitute for nouns and noun phrases.
What are pronouns?
300
I "fell asleep and missed" the meeting. Identify the quoted portion of the sentence.
What is the compound predicate?
300
The -est or "best" form of adjectives
What is the superlative form?
300
Matilda ran as swift/swiftly as an arrow.
What is "swiftly?"
300
The formula used by linguistic grammarians to depict a sentence.
What is NP + VP = S?
400
Used to join a dependent clause and an independent clause
What is a subordinating conjunction?
400
Because Ms. Benton is an English teacher she loves to read and discuss great literature. What is the problem with this sentence?
What is there is a comma missing after "teacher?"
400
A finite and closed class of words that do not add or delete words
What is the structure class words?
400
Derivational affix that does not belong in the following list: -ous, -ful, -ism, -ish
What is "-ism?" It is the only derivational affix that does not identify adjectives.
400
He likes tacos, but not guacamole. Grammatical problem with the sentence.
What is this is not a compound sentence, so it does not need a comma?
500
Followed by an object while acting either adverbially or adjectivally
What is a preposition (prepositional phrase)?
500
A sentence containing two independent clauses and one dependent clause
What is a compound-complex sentence?
500
When parts of speech change from one form to another
What is morphing?
500
I thought that no one would ever understand myself/me.
What is "me?"
500
Even though both have a subject and a verb, one type can stand on its own as a sentence and the other cannot.
What is the main difference between a dependent and independent clause?