Sentence Purposes
Chart A
Parts of Speech
IEW Potpourri
Verbs
100

This sentence purpose is used to ask a question.

What is Interrogative?

100

The four sentence purposes.

What are: Declarative, Interrogative, Exclamatory and Imperative?

100

The two parts of speech can function as the subject of a sentence.

What are nouns and pronouns?

100

This dress-up is a word that modifies a verb, adjective or adverb and ends in "-ly."

What is an "-ly adverb?"

100

The five principal parts of a verb.

What are: infinitive, present, past, present participle and past participle?

200

The subject of an Imperative sentence.

What is (You) or Implied You?

200

The five parts of sentences.

What are: Subject, Verb, Captial Letter, End Mark and Makes Complete Sense?

200

One type of this part of speech is used to join two simple sentences to make a compound sentence.

What is a conjunction?

200

This is the number of actual words one may have in any given line of a Key Word Outline.

What are three words?

200

The definition of a verb.

What is, "a word that asserts an action, shows a state of being, links two words together, or helps another verb."

300

This sentence changed to an interrogative purpose, by using an interrogative pronoun.

"My sister loves pie."

What is, "Who loves pie?"

300

The eight parts of speech.

What are: Noun, Pronoun, Verb, Adverb, Conjunction, Interjection, Preposition, Adjective?

300

There are four types of this part of speech and every sentence must have one.

What is a verb?
300

The title repeats or reflects this range of key words from the last sentence of a paragraph.

What is "1 to 3"?

300

The definition of a linking verb.

What is, "makes an assertion by joining two verbs?"

400

The following sentence is an example of this sentence purpose.

"Sit down and buckle your seat belt."

What is Imperative purpose?

400

The four sentence patterns we have learned this year, so far.

What are S-Vi, S-Vt-DO, S-Vl-PN, S-Vl, PA?
400

This part of speech is diagrammed above the main sentence diagram.

What is an interjection?

400

The three types of clauses that we have learned through Unit 5 (Lesson 14 Underground Railroad).

What are: Who/Which, Because, and www.asia.b (wub)?

400

___?__ verb forms x

___?__ verb times =

___?__ verb tenses

What are 4 verb forms x 3 verb times = 12 verb tenses?

500

Type of verb that can be used to change a declarative or exclamatory sentence into an interrogative sentence.

What is a helping verb?

500

The actual sentence used as the example for S-Vl-PN in Chart A.

What is, "Jesus is God."

500

This part of speech relates a noun or pronoun to another word.

What is a preposition?

500

This figure of speech uses "like or as" to make a comparison of two things.

What is a simile?
500

The four verb attributes.

What are, "person, number, voice and mood?"