Types of Sentences
Identify the type of sentence:
Please turn your paper in before you leave.
What is imperative?
Sentence, Fragment, or Run-on?
My youngest cousin Betty-Sue.
What is sentence fragment?
Identify the complete subject:
The rude little boy threw the toy across the room.
Who is "the rude little boy"?
Identify the verb phrase (main verb and helping verb) in the following sentence:
I was working on my essay last night.
What is "was working"?
Identify the compound subject in the following sentence:
My friend and I went to the mall last Saturday.
Who is "my friend" and "I"?
Identify the type of sentence:
What did you think of the book?
What is interrogative?
Sentence, sentence fragment, or run-on?
She won the game.
What is a sentence?
Identify the simple subject:
When I was a kid, my uncle worked on a local farm.
Who is uncle?
Identify the main verb in the following sentence:
The band was playing during the halftime show.
What is "playing'?
Identify the compound subject in the following sentence:
The boy and his dog played together in the backyard.
Who is "the boy" and "his dog"?
The test wasn't too difficult.
What is declarative?
Sentence, fragment, or run-on?
The test was hard I am worried about my grade.
What is run-on?
Identify the complete predicate:
The teacher reminded her students to study for tomorrow's quiz.
What is "reminded her students to study for tomorrow's quiz"?
My mom was singing while she cooked dinner.
What is "was"?
Identify the compound verb in the following sentence:
She danced and leapt across the stage.
What is "danced" and "leapt"?
Identify the type of sentence:
That was amazing!
What is exclamatory?
Sentence, sentence fragment, or run-on?
When I was younger, the local high school's football team.
What is sentence fragment?
Identify the simple predicate:
Last summer, my friend Jane sold lemonade in her driveway.
What is "sold"?
Identify the main verb in the following sentence:
The dog is sleeping under the table.
What is "sleeping"?
I swept the floor and vacuumed the rug.
What is "swept" and "vacuumed"?
Stop that!
Sentence, fragment, or run-on?
After wandering off the familiar path, the young girl became lost in the woods.
What is sentence?
Identify the complete predicate:
During winter break, the class president traveled to Spain.
What is "During winter break...traveled to Spain"?
Identify the helping verb in the following sentence:
Do you want to a piece of gum?
What is "Do"?
Identify the compound verb:
You need to walk down the hall and go up the stairs.
What is "walk" and "go"?