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Prepositional Phrases
Subordinate Clauses
Infinitive and Appositive Phrases
Participial Phrases
Gerund Phrases
100

What are the two types of prepositional phrases.

Adjective and Adverb.

100

What are three types of subordinate clauses.

Adjective clauses, Adverb clauses, and noun clauses.

100

Infinitives are "to +____ "

What is a verb. "to+a verb"

100
These are the two types of participial phrases.
What is past participial phrases and present participial phrases.
100

True or false: Gerunds can be end in -ing and -ed.

false. Gerunds only end in -ing

200

What type of prepositional phrase answers the questions what kind, which one, how many, and how much.

Adjective phrase.

200

Subordinate adjective clauses usually begin with what types of pronouns.

Relative pronouns.

200

Infinitives are different than prepositional phrases because unlike prepositional phrases which can only be adjectives and adverbs, infinitive phrases function also as what?

nouns

200
Present participial phrases generally end in this.
What is the suffix -ing.
200

Name three functions of gerunds in a sentence.

noun, direct object, indirect object, predicate noun, object of a preposition, appositive

300

"After the game, we all gathered and talked in the hall." In this sentence which adverb phrases modifies gathered and talked.

"After the game" and "in the hall"

300

Name five subordinate conjunctions. 

as, after, whether, since, because, if, when

300

True or false: Appositives modify adjectives and adverbs.

False; They identify pronouns and nouns.

300
Participial phrases work as what?
What is adjectives.
300

True or false: Gerunds can only function as nouns in a sentence.

True

400

"I taught me sister to bike today." In this sentence "to bike" is what type of phrase?

An infinitive not a prepositional phrase.

400

Name three functions of a noun clause in a sentence.

subject, direct object, indirect object, predicate noun, object of a preposition, appositive 

400

"I chose the color neon blue, an unusual color for a car." In this sentence, what is the appositive phrase.

"an unusual color for a car."

400
"The girl waiting behind the counter is Jenna." The participial phrases in this sentence is this.
What is essential and present participial phrase.
400

1. "Yelling, my brother upset me." 2. My brother's yelling upset me." The sentence that contains a gerund is.

Sentence 2.

500

True or false: Prepositional phrases contain a subject and can stand alone as a sentence.

False.

500

Identify the noun clause and its function in the sentence: She took a bite of whatever was in the boiling pot on the stove.

noun clause: whatever was in the boiling pot on the stove. Function: object of the preposition "of"

500

Identify the infinitive phrase and its function in this sentence: To think is the purpose of life. 

"To think" ; it is functioning as a noun which is the subject.

500
"We were exhausted from the ride to California." "We rested by the side of the rode." If we combined these sentences using an appositive phrase it would read like this.
What is "Exhausted by the ride to California, we rested by the side of the rode."
500

In this sentence, identify the gerund phrase and its function: My hobby, gardening in the spring, is my favorite outdoor activity. 

"gardening in the spring" ; function: appositive