Grammar

Question 1

What are the four sentence structures?

Answer 1

simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex

Question 2

What are the four sentence types?

Answer 2

• Declarative
• Imperative
• Interrogative
• Exclamatory

Question 3

What are the three types of verbs?

Answer 3

Action, linking, helping

Question 4

Subject of a sentence

Answer 4

noun or pronoun

Question 5

Predicate of a sentence

Answer 5

verb and modifiers that go with it

Question 6

What are the four parts of a sentence?

Answer 6

1.) Subject
2.) Predicate
3.) Objects
4.) Complements

Question 7

What are the eight parts of speech?

Answer 7

nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjugations, interjections.

Question 8

What is an action verb?

Answer 8

Shows physical or mental action.

There are transitive and intransitive action verbs

Question 9

What is a transitive action verb?

Answer 9

takes a direct object
ex. John passed the ball to me

Question 10

What is an intransitive action verb?

Answer 10

• Doesn’t have a direct object

ex. John passed

Question 11

What is a linking verb? (Examples of linking verbs)

Answer 11

Links the subject to a word that describes (adj) or identifies it (noun)

ex. am, is, was, are, seem, be, smell, look, taste, remain, feel, appear, sound , seem
* He is a general for the North
* He looks tired

Question 12

What is a helping verb? (examples of helping verb)

Answer 12

Placed before the main verb to help make grammatical structure.

(ex. be, have, do, can , could, should, may, ought to, shall, must, might, will)

• She has opened the door
• He could have opened the door.

Question 13

Simple sentence structure

Answer 13

consisting of one independent clause

Question 14

Compound sentence structure

Answer 14

A sentence compounded of two or more independent clauses (I +I)

Question 15

Complex sentence structure

Answer 15

sentence consists of an independent and a dependent clause ( I +D , D +I, D + I+D)

Question 16

Compound - complex sentence structure

Answer 16

Contains both compound clause structure and complex clause structure. ( I + I + D or D + I +I)

Question 17

What does parallelism create? What does it connect?

Answer 17

A sense of balance and rhythm by using the same grammatical structure to express equal terms.

Often connects two clauses or creates a list using coordinating conjunctions.

All about coherence.

Question 18

Is it parallel:

Dave’s favorite hobbies are kayaking, to cook, and painting.

Answer 18

No.

The parallel version would be:

Dave’s favorite hobbies are kayaking, cooking, and painting.

Question 19

Is it parallel:

Ben is a talented singer, dancer, and performer.

Answer 19

Yes

Question 20

Is it parallel:

Ryan was hungry, sore, and felt thirst.

Answer 20

No.

The parallel version is:

Ryan was hungry, sore, and felt thirsty.

Question 21

Is it parallel?

Ethan plans to read, cook, and he will study this evening.

Answer 21

No.

Parallel version is:

Ethan plans to read, cook, and study this evening.

Question 22

Is it parallel:

Of the three contestants, Dave was the smartest, I was the best looking, and Jane was the most talented.

Answer 22

Yes