Parts Of Grammar

Question 1

Noun

Answer 1

Names a person, place, or thing

Question 3

Direct Object

Answer 3

A noun that follows an action verb. It receives the action

Question 4

Tense of a Verb

Answer 4

Shows the time of action: past, present, and future

Question 5

Subject Pronoun

Answer 5

Indicates who or what “performs” the action of a sentence as in: I,You,He,She,It,We,They, and We are subjects

Question 6

Singular Noun

Answer 6

Names person, place, or thing

Question 7

Plural Noun

Answer 7

Names more than one person, place, or thing

Question 8

Possessive Noun

Answer 8

Shows ownership

Question 9

Adjective

Answer 9

Tell what kind of, which one, or how many

Question 10

Adverb

Answer 10

Tells how, where,

Question 11

Colons

Answer 11

Used to separate hours and minutes in time or to introduce a list and follow a business letter

Question 12

Semicolons

Answer 12

Are used to separate independent clauses in a sentence

Question 13

Parentheses

Answer 13

Are used to show that information is not part of main statement

Question 14

Quotation Marks

Answer 14

Used to show the beginning and end of someone’s exact words

Question 15

Sentence

Answer 15

A group of words that express a complete thought; has a subject and a predicate

Question 16

Commas

Answer 16

Used to separate items in a series, to separate parts of dates, to separate parts of names

Question 17

Simple Sentence

Answer 17

A sentence that expresses only one complete thought

Question 18

Compound Sentence

Answer 18

Made up of two simple sentences joined by a comma and by the words and, but, or or

Question 19

Sentence Fragment

Answer 19

A word group that has no subject or predicate or does not express a complete thought

Question 20

Run-on Sentence

Answer 20

Consists of 2 or more sentences joined by a conjunction