Proper Nouns
Identify the proper nouns in this sentence: We have a more pressing matter, Joyce Byers can’t find her Bigfoot slippers this morning.
Joyce Byers, Bigfoot
Identify at least 1 adjective in this sentence: We have a more pressing matter, Joyce Byers can’t find her Bigfoot slippers this morning.
pressing
(sneaky noun working as an adjective: Bigfoot)
Identify the FANBOYS conjunction in this sentence: “Science is neat, but I’m afraid it’s not very forgiving.”
but
Identify the SWABI subordinating conjunction in this sentence: “Once you open up that curiosity door, anything is possible.”
Once
How can you change the punctuation to fix the run-ons or fragments? "I can’t breathe in this hamburger costume, I’m itchy, I’m itching all over."
"I can't breathe in this hamburger costume! I'm itchy! I'm itching all over!"
Or put periods where those exclamation marks are.
Or, "I'm itchy; I'm itching all over!" could work...
Identify the proper nouns in this sentence: There’s something about this place, Michael Scott started acting weird the second we got here.
Michael Scott
Identify at least 1 adjective in this sentence: There’s something about this place, Michael Scott started acting weird the second we got here.
weird
Identify the FANBOYS conjunction in this sentence: “I am on a curiosity voyage, and I need my paddles to travel.”
and
Identify the dependent clause in this sentence: “Once you open up that curiosity door, anything is possible.”
Once you open up that curiosity door
How can you change the punctuation to fix the run-ons or fragments? "Yeah, they like that I'm a Sour Skittles delivery machine, they don't actually like me or respect me. As a living, breathing human with a brain."
"Yeah, they like that I'm a Sour Skittles delivery machine; they don't actually like me or respect me as a living, breathing human with a brain."
Or, a period instead of the semicolon could work...
Identify the proper nouns in this sentence: Yeah, they like that I'm a Sour Skittles delivery machine, they don't actually like me or respect me. As a living, breathing human with a brain.
Sour Skittles
Identify at least two adjectives in this sentence: I relocated you guys to Springfield. Because I thought, you know, "It’s a safe town, it’s small, dull, and far from San Francisco."
safe, small, dull
Is there a FANBOYS conjunction in this sentence: “If we’re both going crazy, then we’ll go crazy together.”
no
Identify the SWABI subordinating conjunction in this sentence: "I guess when you’re a hall monitor, you have to leave your feelings in your locker."
when
How many simple sentences/independent clauses are in this sentence? "There’s something about this place, Michael Scott started acting weird the second we got here."
Two
Identify the proper nouns in this sentence: I relocated you guys to Springfield. Because I thought, you know, "It’s a safe town, it’s small, dull, and far from San Francisco."
Springfield, San Francisco
Identify at least two adjectives in this sentence: Yeah, they like that I'm a Sour Skittles delivery machine, they don't actually like me or respect me. As a living, breathing human with a brain.
living, breathing
(sneaky nouns working as adjectives: Sour Skittles, delivery)
Do you put the comma BEFORE or AFTER a FANBOYS conjunction when you're using the conjunction to join two simple sentences together?
BEFORE
What type of clause starts with a SWABI subordinating conjunction as its first word?
a dependent clause
How many run-on sentences do you have here? "My name is Louise, I’m a half-elf rogue level 14 I will sneak behind any monster you throw my way."
Two
Identify the proper nouns in this sentence: I can’t breathe in this hamburger costume, I’m itchy, I’m itching all over.
None
Identify three or more adjectives in this sentence: My name is Louise, I’m a half-elf rogue level 14 I will sneak behind any monster you throw my way. And stab them in the back with my poison-soaked Kuchi Kopi, and I’ll smile. As I watch them die a slow, agonizing death.
poison-soaked, slow, agonizing
(sneaky noun working as an adjective: half-elf)
(rogue could be an adjective or a noun, and here I think it's another sneaky noun-as-adjective)
Compound sentence (compound = made of 2)
What is a dependent clause?
a group of words / part of sentence that has a subject and verb but does not express a complete thought on its own (it depends on an independent clause to give the sentence meaning)
What are three ways you can fix a run-on?
period, semicolon, add a conjunction
(FANBOYS coordinating [with a comma before it!] or SWABI subordinating conjunction)