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Understanding Sentence Structures

Learn about compound sentences, subjects, predicates, verb phrases, and sentence types with examples. Improve your grammar skills today!

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Understanding Sentence Structures

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  1. Compounds Sentence Types Other Subjects Predicates $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $400 $400 $400 $400 $400 $500 $500 $500 $500 $500

  2. C1 final FINAL JEOPARDY What is a verb phrase? Write an example on your paper.

  3. C1 final Two or more verbs in a sentence where at least one is a helping/linking verb

  4. C1 $100 Honeybees gather nectar in the flowers. What is the simple subject of this sentence?

  5. C1 $100 Honeybees

  6. C1 $200 Who is the subject of the following sentence? Take out your GUM book.

  7. C1 $200 You

  8. C1 $300 What is the simple subject in this sentence? Mosquito bites are very itchy.

  9. C1 $300 Bites

  10. C1 $400 Find the complete subject of this sentence: The sun is much bigger than all the other planets.

  11. C1 $400 The sun

  12. C1 $500 The complete subject in a sentence includes …

  13. C1 $500 All the words that tell whom or what the sentence is about

  14. C2 $100 Includes the verb and ALL of the words that tell what the subject is or what the subject does. This is the definition for…

  15. C2 $100 Complete Predicate

  16. C2 $200 What is the simple predicate in the following sentence? Stars twinkle in the sky at night.

  17. C2 $200 Twinkle

  18. C2 $300 Legends are a popular kind of folktale. Does this sentence contain an action verb or a linking verb?

  19. C2 $300 Linking verb ARE

  20. C2 $400 • The waves lappedagainst the shore. • The boldfaced words are examples of • Complete Subject • Complete Predicate • Simple Predicate, or verb

  21. C2 $400 b) Complete Predicate

  22. C2 $500 That orchestra is playing all over the world. What is the simple predicate in this sentence?

  23. C2 $500 is playing

  24. C3 $100 • Popcorn and soft drinks are on sale at the stand. • Compound Verb • Compound Subject

  25. C3 $100 Compound Subject

  26. C3 $200 What is the compound verb in this sentence? Sometimes we try but fail.

  27. C3 $200 try but fail

  28. C3 $300 The restaurants and beaches were crowded with tourists. Name the compound subject.

  29. C3 $300 restaurants and beaches

  30. C3 $400 Two or more subjects that share the same verb is known as…

  31. C3 $400 Compound Subject

  32. C3 $500 What is a compound verb?

  33. C3 $500 Two or more verbs that share the same subject.

  34. C4 $100 Pass the milk please. Interrogative or Imperative?

  35. C4 $100 Imperative

  36. C4 $200 Is the bus here yet? Interrogative or Declarative?

  37. C4 $200 Interrogative

  38. C4 $300 I got a puppy! What type of sentence is this?

  39. C4 $300 Exclamatory

  40. C4 $400 This type of sentence tells or asks someone to do something. IT usually ends with a period, but may end with an exclamation point.

  41. C4 $400 Imperative Sentence

  42. C4 $500 What is a declarative sentence?

  43. C4 $500 A declarative sentence tells a statement. It always ends with a period.

  44. C5 $100 What are the conjunctions?

  45. C5 $100 and, or, but

  46. C5 $200 The police officer gave the driver a warning. Driver is an example of… A direct or indirect object?

  47. C5 $200 Indirect

  48. C5 $300 Is this sentence a fragment or a run-on? Watched the fireworks in the night sky.

  49. C5 $300 Fragment

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