1What is a noun?
A noun is a person, place, or thing.
2What is a pronoun?
A pronoun takes the place of a noun.
3What is a verb?
A verb is a word of action or being.
4What is an adjective?
An adjective is a part of speech that describes a noun or pronoun.
5What is a conjunction?
A conjunction is a word that joins words or groups of words.
6What is a preposition?
A preposition describes the location or direction of another word in a sentence or shows a connection between words.
7What is an adverb?
An adverb modifies a verb, adjective, or another adverb.
8What is an interjection?
An interjection is a short, sudden expression of emotion.
9What is a sentence?
A sentence is a group of words expressing a complete thought, with a subject and predicate.
10What is the complete subject?
The complete subject includes all the words that tell who or what the sentence is about. The subject along with the modifier.
11What is the complete predicate?
The complete predicate includes the simple predicate and all the words that describe the subject’s action.
12What is a simple subject?
The simple subject is the main word or words in a sentence.
13What is a simple predicate?
The simple predicate is the verb or verb phrase tepresenting the verb without any of its modifiers.
14What is a compound subject?
A compound subject occurs when a sentence has more than one subject.
15What is a compound predicate?
A compound predicate occurs when a sentence has more than one predicate.
16What are the adjective modifier questions? (Name 4)
What kind? Which one? How many? Whose?
17What are the adverb modifier questions? (Name 4)
How? When? Where? To what extent?
18What part of speech is “has been” in the sentence “Each old book has been collecting dust recently”?
Verb
19What part of speech is “to” in the sentence “They jumped to the top and slid down the railing”?
Preposition
20What part of speech is “scurried” in the sentence “Joy and Felicity scurried under the bridge for cover”?
Verb
21What part of speech is “lunch” in the sentence “Yesterday’s lunch tasted delicious!”?
Noun
22What part of speech is “lengthy” in the sentence “Annie sent Anagnos a lengthy letter”?
Adjective
23What part of speech is “glance” in the sentence “Keller gave James a scolding glance”?
Noun
24What part of speech is “Alabama” in the sentence “Annie sent Anagnos a letter from Alabama”?
Noun
25What part of speech is “stare” in the sentence “James responded with a resentful stare”?
Noun
26What part of speech is “winning” in the sentence “Above the green field she cheered for the winning team”?
Adjective
27What part of speech is “green” in the sentence “This plant must have been green yesterday”?
Adjective
28What part of speech is “on” in the sentence “He sat on a stump with a green shoot in its center”?
Preposition
29What part of speech is “lately” in the sentence “She has been looking tired lately”?
Adverb
30What is the simple subject of the sentence “We have built skyscrapers in this city”?
We
31What is the simple predicate of the sentence “We have built skyscrapers in this city”?
have built skyscrapers in this city
32What is the simple subject “SS” of the sentence “We have built skyscrapers in this city”?
We
33What is the simple predicate of the sentence “We have built skyscrapers in this city”?
have built
34What is a Limited Subject (L)? (LSU Topic Sentence)
A subject that is small enough to analyze completely but can support more than one example “Its cannot be simply the name of another author or book”
35What is a Specific Predicate (S)? (LSU Topic Sentence)
A strong arguable claim that should not make obvious statements of observation or generalization
36What is a Unified Subject & Predicate (U)? (LSU Topic Sentence)
When subject and predicate are clearly connected to one central idea
37What is the simple subject “SS” in "The boy ran quickly toward the finish line"?
The boy
38What is the simple predicate “SP” in "The boy ran quickly toward the finish line"?
ran quickly toward the finish line
39What is the simple subject “SS” in "His aunts and uncles brought all his cousins on the vacation"?
His aunts and uncles
40What is the simple predicate “SP” in "His aunts and uncles brought all his cousins on the vacation"?
brought all his cousins on the vacation
41What is the simple subject “SS” in "The mountain was too tall for him"?
The mountain
42What is the simple predicate “SP” in "The mountain was too tall for him"?
was too tall for him
43What is the simple subject “SS” in "Both cars and trucks require gasoline and burn oil"?
Both cars and trucks
44What is the simple predicate “SP” in "Both cars and trucks require gasoline and burn oil"?
require gasoline and burn oil