Parts of Speech
Types of Sentences
Sentence Parts
Punctuation/Capital Letters
Conjunctions
100
A person, place, thing or idea
What is noun?
100
compound sentences usually use these three coordinating conjunctions
What is and, but, or?
100
who or what the sentence is about.
What is the subject?
100
punctuation that is at the end of a question
What is a question mark?
100
the coordinating conjunction that connects two sentences with like ideas
What is and?
200
these words describe nouns or pronouns
What are Adjectives?
200
two independent clauses or sentences joined together with a coordinating conjunction (and, but, or)
What is a compound sentence?
200
a group of words that cannot stand on its own
What is a dependent clause (fragment)
200
where the comma goes in a compound sentence
What is before the conjunction.
200
The subordinating conjunction used to combine sentences to show cause and effect
What is because?
300
verbs that are found before an action verb in a sentence.
What is a helping verb?
300
an independent clause that asks something
What is a question?
300
part of a sentence that tells what the subject is like or what the subject is doing. (usually starts with a verb)
What is the predicate?
300
these marks show that someone is speaking in the text
What are quotation marks?
300
Coordinating conjunction that combines two sentences to show a choice or alternative
What is or?
400
verbs that connect a word in the subject to a word in the predicate.
What is a linking verb?
400
a sentence that contains one independent clause and one dependent clause that contains a subordinating conjunction.
What is a complex sentence?
400
a group of words that cannot stand on its own
What is a dependent clause?
400
What personal pronoun is always capitalized?
What is "I"?
400
the conjunctions that are used in complex sentences
What are subordinating conjunctions?
500
words that describe an action verb
What is an adverb?
500
a sentence that contains a compound sentence and a complex sentence.
What is a compound-complex sentence?
500
write one compound sentence and one simple sentence on your white board.
a compound sentence must have two simple sentences or independent clauses joined by a coordinating conjunction. a simple sentence ,or independent clause, contains a subject and predicate
500
List five things that should be capitalized (don't list five examples of the same thing)
What are: Days of the Week, Months of the Year, Names, Titles, Beginning of a sentence, Cities, Countries, States, "I"
500
the acronym (letters from words that form actual words) for the coordinating conjunctions that can be used for compound sentences
What is FANBOYS?