Sentence, Verbs, Nouns

Question 1

declarative sentence

Answer 1

makes a statement and ends with a period.

Question 2

interrogative sentence

Answer 2

asks a question and ends with a question mark

Question 3

imperative sentence

Answer 3

gives a command or a request and usually ends with a period

Question 4

exclamatory sentence

Answer 4

expresses strong emotions or feeling and ends with an exclamation point

Question 5

subject

Answer 5

is the person, place, thing or idea that the sentence is about

Question 6

complete subject

Answer 6

• comes at or near the beginning of the sentence
• may be one word or many words

Question 7

simple subject

Answer 7

• will be a noun or pronoun
• the main word in the complete subject

Question 8

predicate

Answer 8

follows the subject and makes a statement about it

Question 9

complete predicate

Answer 9

describes the subject in some way or tells about an action

Question 10

simple predicate

Answer 10

is main action

Question 11

conjunction

Answer 11

is a connection word that joins words or groups of words in a sentence

Question 12

coordinating conjunction

Answer 12

joins sentence parts of the same type

Question 13

compound part

Answer 13

and, but, for, nor, or, so, yet

Question 14

joining words

Answer 14

coordinating conjunction may join single words of the same function in a sentence

Question 15

joining phrases

Answer 15

joins phrases that share the same function

Question 16

correlative conjunction

Answer 16

used in pairs

Question 17

correlative conjunction:
both

Answer 17

and

Question 18

correlative conjunction:
either

Answer 18

or

Question 19

correlative conjunction:
neither

Answer 19

nor

Question 20

correlative conjunction:
not only

Answer 20

but also

Question 21

compound subject

Answer 21

two or more subjects joined by a conjunction

Question 22

compound predicate

Answer 22

two or more simple predicates joined by a conjunction

Question 23

True or false: sentences can only have a compound subject or a compound predicate

Answer 23

False

Question 24

complete sentence

Answer 24

expresses a complete thought, is properly capitalized and punctuated

Question 25

fragment

Answer 25

group of words that is not a complete sentence

Question 26

interjection

Answer 26

a word or short phrase often used to show strong emotions

Question 27

comma splice

Answer 27

consists of two sentences incorrectly joined by only a commaf

Question 28

fused sentence

Answer 28

consists of two or more sentences incorrectly joined without any punctuation

Question 29

verb

Answer 29

shows actions or tells state of being

Question 30

action verb

Answer 30

can tell what someone or something does

Question 31

state-of-being verb

Answer 31

tells what someone or something is

Question 32

transitive verb

Answer 32

TrV - has a receiver for its action

Question 33

direct object

Answer 33

DO - noun or pronoun in the predicate that receives the action of a verb

Question 34

indirect object

Answer 34

I DO - noun or pronoun that tells to whom or for whom the verb's action was done

Question 35

intransitive verb

Answer 35

InV - does not have a receiver of the action

Question 36

linking verb

Answer 36

links the subject of a sentence to a word that renames or describes the subject

Question 37

predicate noun

Answer 37

noun or pronoun in the complete predicate that follows a linking verb and renames the subject

Question 38

predicate adjective

Answer 38

adjective in the complete predicate that follows a linking verb and describes the subject

Question 39

helping verbs

Answer 39

called auxiliaries - words that help the main verb express special meaning

Question 40

complete verb

Answer 40

consists of either a main verb and helping verb or a main verb alone

Question 41

3 principal parts to a verb

Answer 41

present, past, past participle

Question 42

past participle

Answer 42

used with a form of the helping verb have

Question 43

regular verbs

Answer 43

have 2nd and 3rd principal parts that are just alike

Question 44

irregular verbs

Answer 44

form their past and past participle

Question 45

future perfect tense

Answer 45

future tense of have and past participle of a verb will (or shall) have + past participle

Question 46

past perfect tense

Answer 46

expresses an action completed before some past time or event =had + past participle

Question 47

present perfect tense

Answer 47

expresses action completed during the present time period = have or has + past participle