Grammar SG

Prepositional Pharse

A ______ that begins with a _________ (i.e., in, at for, behind, until, after, of, during) and modifies a word in the sentence. A _______ ______ answers one of many questions. Here are a few examples: "Where? When? In what way?"

Independent Clause

A _________ __________ can stand alone as a sentence. It contains a subject and a verb and is a complete idea.

Subject

A person, animal, place, thing, or concept that does an action. Determine the ______ in a sentence by asking the question "Who or what?"

Object

A person, animal, place, thing, or concept that receives the action. Determine the _____ in a sentence by asking the question "The subject did what?" or "To whom?/For whom?"

Verb

Expresses what the person, animal, place, thing, or concept does. Determine the ____ in a sentence by asking the question "What was the action or what happened?"

Noun

Person, place, thing, or idea

Predicate

The __________ is the part of a sentence (or clause) that tells us what the subject does or is. To put it another way, the ________ is everything that is not the subject. In the center of the ___________ is a verb.

Helping Verb

_______ ________ are _____ that help the main ____ in a sentence by extending its meaning. They are located in front of the main ____. A helping verb sits before a main _____ to help express the main _____ mood, tense, or voice.

Linking Verb

a _________ ____ is a _____ which connects a subject to its predicate without expressing an action.

Interrogative Sentence

asks a question. This type of sentence often begins with who, what, where, when, why, how, or do, and it ends with a question mark.

Simple Sentence

contains a _______ and a verb, and it may also have an object and modifiers. However, it contains only one independent clause.

Complex Sentence

contains at least one independent clause and at least one dependent clause. Dependent clauses can refer to the subject (who, which) the sequence/time (since, while), or the causal elements (because, if) of the independent clause.

Compound Sentence

contains at least two independent clauses. These two independent clauses can be combined with a comma and a coordinating conjunction or with a semicolon.

Imperative Sentence

gives a command or makes a request. It usually ends with a period but can, under certain circumstances, end with an exclamation point.

A Sentence

is a group of words giving a complete thought. A ________ must contain a subject and a predicate (it contains the verb).The subject is what the _________ is about, and the predicate is a comment about the subject. A __________ must have a complete idea that stands alone. This is also called an independent clause.

Exclamatory Sentence

is a sentence that expresses great emotion such as excitement, surprise, happiness and anger, and ends with an ________ point.

A Sentence Fragment

is a string of words that does not form a complete sentence; there is a necessary component of a complete sentence missing. This missing component may be a subject (usually a noun) or a predicate (verb or verb phrase) and/or when the sentence does not express a complete idea.

A Run On Sentence

occurs when two or more independent clauses (also known as complete sentences) are connected improperly.

Declarative/Telling Sentence

simply makes a statement or expresses an opinion. In other words, it makes a ___________. This kind of sentence ends with a period.