English Flashcards
A _____ is a word or word group that is capitalized and punctuated as a sentence but that does not contain both a subject and verb or does not express a complete thought.
SENTENCE FRAGMENT
A ____ is a word or word group that contains a subject and a verb and that expresses a complete thought.
SENTENCE
The ___ tells whom or____what the sentence is about, and the ____ says something about the subject.
SUBJECT, PREDICATE
The main word or word group that tells whom or what the sentence is about is called the ____.
SIMPLE SUBJECT
The _____ consists of the simple subject and any words, phrases, or clauses that modify the simple subject.
COMPLETE SUBJECT
The _____ consists of a verb and all the words that describe the verb and complete its meaning.
COMPLETE PREDICATE
A ____ includes a preposition, the object of the preposition, and any modifiers of that object.
PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE
A _____ consists of 2 or more subjects that are joined by a conjunction and that have the same verb.
COMPOUND SUBJECT
A _____ consists of 2 or more verbs that are joined by a conjunction and that have the same subject.
COMPOUND VERB
A ______ is a word or word group that completes the meaning of the verb.
COMPLEMENT
A ______ is a word or word group in the predicate that describes or identifies the subject.
SUBJECT COMPLEMENT
A ______ is a word or word group that is in the predicate and that identifies the subject or refers to it.
PREDICATE NOMINATIVE
A ______ is an adjective that is in the predicate and that modifies the subject.
PREDICATE ADJECTIVE
A _____ is a noun, pronoun, or word group that tells who or what receives the action of a verb or shows the result of the action,
DIRECT OBJECT
An _______ is a noun, pronoun, or word group that often appears in sentences containing direct objects. An indirect object tells to whom or to what (or for whom or for what) the action of a transitive verb is done.
INDIRECT OBJECT