Types of Sentences according to their PURPOSE
What is an interrogative sentence?
What is a sentence that asks a question.
What is the subject of a sentence?
What is whom or what the sentence is referring to?
What is a simple sentence?
What is an independent clause or a sentence that begins with a capital letter, has complete meaning, and ends either with a period, an exclamation mark, or a question mark?
What is subject-verb agreement?
What is when a subject and its verb agree in number (that is, they are both either singular or plural)?
How many parts of speech (or word classes) are there in the English language (you must also name them)?
What is there are eight parts of speech in the English language: noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, and interjection?
What is an exclamatory sentence?
What is a sentence that shows emotion.
What is the predicate of a sentence?
What is what the subject does or is (action or state of being)?
What is a compound sentence?
What is the union of two simple sentences brought together by either a comma and a coordinating conjunction, a semicolon, or a semicolon, a conjunctive adverb, and a comma OR the union of two independent clauses brought together by either a comma and a coordinating conjunction, a semicolon, or a semicolon, a conjunctive adverb, and a comma?
What subject-verb agreement rule applies when the subject is the third-person singular?
What is if the subject is third-person singular, you must use the singular form of the verb when speaking in the present tense ? Most of the time, this means adding an -s to the end of the verb.
What is a noun?
What is a word that names a person, a place, a thing, or an idea?
2. What type of sentence is the following: Please give me a piece of paper.
What is an imperative sentence.
What is the complete subject of the following sentence: Henry Delgado is fishing.
What is Henry Delgado?
What is a complex sentence?
What is the union of a simple sentence (an independent clause) and a DEPENDENT CLAUSE?
What is the rule one must apply if the verb ends in x, ss, sh, ch, tch, or zz?
What is if the verb ends in -x, –ss, –sh, –ch, –tch, or –zz, you add –es to the end to match the third-person singular?
What is a verb (you must also mention at least two types of verbs)?
What is a word that expresses action or state of being?
What is a declarative sentence?
What is a sentence that provides information or gives a statement.
What is the complete predicate of the following sentence: The ocean was calm.
What is was calm?
What is a compound-complex sentence?
What is a sentence with two or more independent clauses and at least one dependent clause?
What rule must one apply if the verb ends in a consonant + y?
What is if the verb ends in a consonant + y, remove the y and add –ies to match the third-person singular?
What is a state of being verb?
What is a verb that does not show action but instead identifies who or what a noun is, was, or will be?
Name all 4 types of sentences according to their PURPOSE.
What is imperative, interrogative, declarative, and exclamatory.
What is the complete subject and the complete predicate of the following sentence: A large fish tugged on the fishing line.
What is A large fish (CS) and tugged on the fishing line (CP)?
What punctuation marks are used to bring together sentences?
What is a coordinating conjunction (connects two independent clauses), a semicolon (to connect two closely related or parallel independent clauses), a semicolon before and a comma after a transition that connects two independent clauses, a comma following an introductory subordinate clause to separate it from the independent clause, and When the subordinate clause follows the independent clause, NO COMMA is needed unless the clause expresses contrast or exception (although, while, whereas)?
What subject-verb agreement rule applies for the SIMPLE PAST and the SIMPLE FUTURE?
What is the simple past and simple future don’t change based on the number or person of the subject. Both singular and plural subjects use the same form for those tenses (the only exception is the verb be, which changes between "was" and "were" based on the subject in the simple past tense)?
What is the difference between an adjective and an adverb?
What is an adjective describes nouns or pronouns (people, places, or things) while adverbs describe verbs (actions or states of being), adjectives or other adverbs?