Parts of Speech
An Action or State of Being
Verb
Words that join clauses, sentences or words.
Conjunctions
The most basic sentence contains a subject and a verb.
A complete thought.
Simple Sentence
A group of words that contain a subject and verb, but does not express a
complete thought and cannot be a sentence.
Dependent Clause
True or False
When an appositive is found within the sentence, a comma is placed before and
after the appositive.
TRUE
Person, Place, Thing or Idea
Noun
Links a noun to another word. Think position....where?
Prepositions
Made up of two or more coordinating or independent clauses and
one or more dependent clauses.
Compound Complex Sentence
Two or more verbs that share the same subject.
Compound Predicate
When an appositive is found at the end of a sentence, ________________to separate
the appositive from the rest of the sentence.
only one comma is placed
Describes a verb, adjective, or another adverb.
Adverb
An exclamation sometimes inserted into a sentence. May also stand alone.
Interjection
A sentence made up of two independent clauses connected with a
coordinating conjunction.
Compound Sentence
The main word in the complete subject.
Simple Subject
An appositive is a word or phrase added to a sentence that_______________.
helps explain a noun
Describes a noun
Adjectives
The / A / An These are what?
Articles
Made up of an independent clause and one or more dependent clauses.
Complex Sentence
A main clause has a _________ and a _________ and can _________.
subject, predicate and can stand alone.
True or False:
Appositives follow the nouns they identify or explain.
True
Replaces or Renames a Noun
Pronoun
F A N B O Y stands for what?
For And Now But Or Yet So
(Conjunctions)
Imperative, Declarative, Exclamatory and Interrogative
A clause that does not express a complete thought and cannot stand alone.
Subordinate Clause
Do commas help identify the appositives in the sentences.
Yes