Parts of Speech 1
A person, place, thing, or idea
What is a noun?
Word that modifies a noun
What is an adjective?
Word that receives the action of the verb
What is a direct object?
A phrase may be adjectival or this
What is adverbial?
Verbs that function as an adverb, adjective, or part of the verb tense.
What are participles?
What is a pronoun?
Word that modifies a verb
What is an adverb?
Word that receives the direct object
What is an indirect object?
"That Argus built" is an example of this kind of clause.
What is a relative clause?
"Glimmering" is an example of this kind of participle
What is present?
Gives the specific name of a noun
What is a proper noun?
Word that connects an independent and a dependent clause
What is a subordinating conjunction?
Noun that follows a preposition
What is an object of the preposition?
What is relative?
"Defeated" is an example of this kind of participle
What is past?
Word that indicates an action
What is a verb?
Word that connects other words, phrases, or two independent clauses
What is a coordinating conjunction?
Part of the sentence that tells what the subject is doing, is like, or is
What is a predicate?
The object form of the relative pronoun "who"
What is whom?
A group of words featuring a participle, using adverbially or adjectivally
What is a participial phrase?
Word that links subjects to adjectives or nouns
What is a copula?
Noun that is the focus of the sentence
What is a subject?
Name the four types of sentences
What are simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex?
List the relative pronouns.
What are who, what, whom, whose, which, and that?
A term for a participle/participial phrase that does not modify the correct noun
What is dangling participle?