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| A person, place, or thing |
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| This word in a sentence is the action or the doing, or it is a state of being. |
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| This part of speech is the noun that does the action being done. |
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This is a descriptive word that describes or limits a noun or pronoun.
Black coffee
What is the word black? |
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This word is a general word that takes the place of a noun, usually a person. Examples are
he, she, it, they, we, you, I |
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This word is the word that describes or limits a verb. It can also describe an adjective or an adverb. Most of these end in -ly.
Example --
ran slowly
What is slowly?
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| What is the easiest word to figure out in a sentence usually? |
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| What is the easiest way to figure out the verb (or verbs) when you have trouble? |
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| Add the word yesterday or today or tomorrow to change the tense of the verb. Whichever word must change to make the sentence make sense has to be the verb. |
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What part of speech are words that describe a state of being, such as
is, was, were, has, have, had |
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| Verbs. They're like wimpy verbs. They aren't really an action, but they are verbs. |
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| Words like in, on, around, through, with are called what? |
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There are words that tell you where or how to locate an object in space or time.
Examples:
the book is on the table
Agnes was at school
What are the words "on" and "at" in these sentences? |
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| Prepositions. There are over 100 in English and most of them are very short, very common words such as of, to, on, in, out, above. |
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| Which type of phrase will never contain the subject or verb? You can take this out of the sentence without changing the meaning. It can come at the beginning or at the end and is extra, unnecessary information. |
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| What two things must very sentence have in it? |
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| One of the three main types of sentences is declatory. What does this type do? |
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It makes a statment or declares something. This will be most sentences.
Examples:
Agnes was at school.
I helped her.
You are cool. |
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| One of the three main types of sentences is interrogatory. What does this type do? |
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It asks a question, like interrogating a witness.
Examples:
Were you there on or about March 10?
Did you kill him? |
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| One of the three main types of sentences is imperative. What does this type do? |
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It commands the listener to do something. In it there is no subject, because I am talking to you and the word "you" is understood.
Examples:
Do it now!
Pass that next test!
In reporting, we wouldn't use the ! |
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| What is a sentence fragment? |
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a phrase that is not a complete sentence because it is missing a verb or subject or both.
Examples:
at school
my favorite color
did it |
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A clause is a phrase in a sentence that has a subject and a verb.
Example --
Agnes studied at school when she wanted to.
Agnes studied at school is a clause, and when she wanted to is a clause. |
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What type of clause is
Agnes studied at school |
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| It is independent. It can stand alone and function as a sentence. |
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What type of clause is
when she wanted to |
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| Dependent. This clause has a subject (she) and a verb (wanted) but it cannot stand alone because of the word "when." These types of preposition words make clauses that depend on more information to explain them. "She wanted to" would have been a complete sentence, but "when she wanted to" is not. |
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What word is a noun that is not the subject? This noun is having something done to it, instead of doing something.
Examples --
on the table
we did it
What are table, it? |
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This word type is a joiner, joining two clauses. When the two clauses are independent, it will have a comma in front. Examples are
and, but, or |
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