Chaptwr 2: Recognizing Subjects & Verbs

Question 1

What is a complete sentence?

Answer 1

Must contain a subject and verb, as well as a complete thought

Question 2

What is a subject of a sentence?

Answer 2

1. Who or what the sentence is about
2. Can be modified by adj
3. Can be compound

Question 3

What is a prepositional phrase?

Answer 3

1.A group of words containing a preposition, object or the preposition, and the modifiers
2. Nouns in a PP can never be the subject

Question 4

How to find the subject in questions?

Answer 4

Answer the question or change it into a statement

Question 5

How to find the subject in a command?

Answer 5

The subject is an implied, “you”

Question 6

What is an appositive phrase?

Answer 6

A group of words in a sentence that gives us extra info about a noun in the sentence

Question 7

What are gerunds?

Answer 7

1. Words that end in “-ing” but have no helping verb infront.
2. They act as nouns and therefore can be the subject
   E.g jogging