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verb

shows action or state of being

interjection

shows strong feeling or emotion

What is a compound subject?

Subjects may be compound. A compound subject has two or more simple subjects.

What is a complete predicate?

The complete predicate of a sentence includes all the words that tell what the subject is or does

What is a complete subject?

The complete subject of a sentence includes all the words that tell who or what the sentence is about

What is a simple predicate?

The simple predicate is the most important word or words in the complete predicate. It is a verb or verb phrase.

What is the simple subject?

The simple subject is the most important word or words in the complete subject. The simple subject is usually a noun or pronoun.

adjective

describes a noun or pronoun

adverb

describes a verb, adjective, or another adverb

What is the abstract noun in this sentence: Dolores was delighted by her nephew's excitement about his new bike.

excitement

What is the simple subject of this sentence: Glittering jewels of many sizes and colors filled the jewelry store display cases.

jewels

conjunction

joins words or groups of words

What is the complete subject of this sentence: Glittering jewels of many sizes and colors filled the jewelry store display cases.

many sizes and colors

Antecedent

means a substitute word usually a pronoun that replaces a word or phase.

What is the compound predicate in this sentence: Our student government met yesterday and voted to ban music players in school

met/voted

transitive

modifying verb/adverb word after the verb

noun

names a person, place, thing or idea

intransitive

no modifying verb/adverb

What is the past participle in this sentence: After the culture medium has reached the correct temperature, add the bacteria.

reached

preposition

relates a noun or pronoun to other words in a sentence

pronoun

takes the place of a noun

What is the direct object in this sentence: After her graduation party, Colleen sent everyone in her family thank you notes.

thank you notes

Is the underlined verb transitive or intransitive: When Betsy moved to Madrid, she couldn't speak Spanish at all.

transitive

What is the subject of this sentence: When opening the package, take care not to damage the contents.

you

When does a run-on sentence occur?

when two or more separate sentences are joined incorrectly.

Underline the Independent Clause in this sentence: No matter how hard she tried, Margaret couldn't finish the crossword puzzle.

Margaret couldn't finish the crossword puzzle.

What is a fragment?

A fragment is group of words that make up only part of a sentence. A fragment does not express a complete thought.

Can a predicate be a compound?

A predicate may be compound, which means it has two or more simple predicates

What is the correlative conjunctions in this sentence: On yesterday's problem set, both Jody and Matt scored 100%

Both/and

What is the indirect object in this sentence: After her graduation party, Colleen sent everyone in her family thank you notes.

Colleen

Rewrite this phase using possessive noun: The swimming pool at the athletic center

athletic center's swimming pool

What is the predicate noun in this sentence: George is Wanda's older brother he works in Dayton, Ohio.

brother

When do helping words come?

comes before the main verb-has, had, been, is, etc.


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