Chapter 1

Question 1

What is a sentence?

Answer 1

A group of words that expresses a complete thought.

Question 2

What is a fragment?

Answer 2

a group of words that does not express a complete thought.

Question 3

What is a run-on error?

Answer 3

results of writing two or more sentences together as one.

Question 4

What is a subject

Answer 4

tells who or what

Question 5

Simple Subject

Answer 5

main part of the complete subject.

Question 6

Predicate

Answer 6

tells what the subject does or is.

Question 7

Simple Predicate

Answer 7

main part of the complete predicate

Question 8

Sentence Skeleton

Answer 8

simple subject and simple predicate

Question 9

Direct Object

Answer 9

Noun or pronoun that completes a sentence skeleton by receiving the action of the verb

Question 10

Indirect Object

Answer 10

noun or pronoun that complete a sentence skeleton by telling to whom or what or for whom or what an action is performed

Question 11

Object Compements

Answer 11

indirect and direct objects

Question 12

Predicate Nominative

Answer 12

a noun/pronoun that is linked to the predicate by a linking verb. S=PN

Question 13

Predicate Adjective

Answer 13

follows a linking verb and modifies the subject - it is an adjective

Question 14

Subjective complements

Answer 14

predicate nominative/predicate adjective

Question 15

Noun of direct Address

Answer 15

names the person/thing to whom one is speaking

Question 16

Appositive

Answer 16

noun/pronoun that immediately follows another noun or pronoun to identify or explain it.