Parts of Speech
It names a person, place, thing, or an idea.
What is a noun?
This word is the indirect object in the following sentence:
Because the weather was freezing, the barista served the customers hot cocoa in mugs.
What is customers?
A group of words that expresses a complete thought and contains at least one independent subject and predicate.
What is a sentence?
This word is the subordinating conjunction in the following sentence:
Although they were exhausted, the volunteers offered the shelter animals fresh water in clean bowls.
What is although?
Identify the prepositional phrase in the following sentence:
The airplane flew smoothly above the thick storm clouds.
What is above the thick storm clouds?
This part of speech modifies verbs, adjectives, and other words like itself.
What is an adverb?
This word is the direct object in the following sentence:
Neither the teacher nor the principal granted the students an extension on their final project.
What is extension?
This is who or what the sentence is all about. It performs the action.
What is subject?
A single connecting word used to join grammatically equal items, such as two nouns, phrases, or independent clauses
What is a coordinating conjunction?
Identify the prepositional phrase in the following sentence:
Because the weather was freezing, the barista served the customers hot cocoa in mugs.
What is in mugs?
This part of speech joins words, phrases, and clauses.
What is a conjunction?
This word is the indirect object in the following sentence:
The proud coach handed the players their trophies and ribbons after the game.
What is/are players?
This sentence structure has one dependent clause and one independent clause.
What is a complex sentence?
A connecting word that introduces a dependent clause and hooks it onto an independent clause, establishing a cause, time, or conditional relationship.
What is a subordinating conjunction?
Identify the prepositional phrase in the following sentence:
With great care, the proud father built his young daughter a sturdy wooden swing set.
What is with great care?
This part of speech shows the relationship between the subject and other words in the sentence.
What is a preposition?
This word is the direct object in the following sentence:
Either the manager or the supervisor will mail the client the contract by Friday morning.
What is contract?
A verb that does not show action. Instead, it acts like an equal sign (=) to connect the subject to words that describe it.
What is a linking verb?
This word is the coordinating conjunction in the following sentence:
The energetic puppy brought its owner the worn tennis ball, so she threw it across the yard.
What is so?
Identify the prepositional phrase in the following sentence:
The modern tech company offered the talented candidate a lucrative job during the interview.
What is during the interview?
This part of speech is the engine of the sentence. Without it, the subject can't perform.
What is a verb?
The following sentence has 2 direct objects:
The chef baked the guests a cake, but he spilled the flour on the kitchen floor.
What are cake and flour?
This sentence structure has at least one dependent clause and at least two independent clauses, joined by a conjunctions.
What is a compound-complex sentence?
A pair of joining words used together to connect grammatically matched sentence elements.
What is a correlative conjunction?
Identify the prepositional phrase in the following sentence:
The thoughtful boy baked his sister a delicious chocolate cake for her birthday.
What is for her birthday?