Grammar 1 & 2 2024-2025

Question 1

Subject

Answer 1

Who/what the sentence is about

Question 2

Predicate

Answer 2

Verb and details, action and state subject is in

Question 3

Linking verbs

Answer 3

Connect subject with subject complement that describes/identifies subject

Question 4

Most common linking verbs

Answer 4

Am, is, are, was, were, be, being, been, seem, become, appear, feel, look, sound, taste, smell

Question 5

Transitive verbs

Answer 5

Requires direct object for complete meaning

Question 6

Subject complement

Answer 6

Follows the linking verb and gives information about the subject

Question 7

Direct object

Answer 7

After the transitive verb and answers what/whom about the verb

Question 8

How many sentence types?

Answer 8

4

Question 9

Independent clause

Answer 9

Group of words with a subject and a verb that expresses a complete thought (complete sentence)

Question 10

Dependent clause/subordinate clause

Answer 10

Group of words with a subject and a verb that doesn’t express a complete though, needs an independent clause for complete sentence, begins with subordinating conjunction

Question 11

Simple sentence

Answer 11

A sentence with only one independent clause

Question 12

Compound sentence

Answer 12

A sentence with at least two independent clauses usually joined by a coordinating conjunction or semicolon

Question 13

Coordinating conjunctions

Answer 13

For, and, nor, but, or, yet, so

Question 14

Complex sentence

Answer 14

A sentence with one independent clause and at least one dependent clause joined with a subordinating conjunction

Question 15

Subordinating conjunctions

Answer 15

Although, as, as if, because, before, during, even if, if, once, since, that, unless, until, whatever, when, whenever, wherever, whether, while

Question 16

Compound complex sentence

Answer 16

Sentence with at least two independent clauses and at least one dependent clause, joined by coordinating conjunctions and subordinating conjunctions