Grammar

Question 0

Clause

Answer 0

A group of words that contains both a subject and predicate

Question 1

Phrase

Answer 1

A group of words that is missing either a subject or predicate

Question 2

Independent clause

Answer 2

A group of words that stands alone – a complete thought

Question 3

Dependent clause

Answer 3

A group of words that contains a subject and predicate makes the reader feel there should be more

Question 4

Conjunctions

Answer 4

A part of speech that join words, phrases, and clauses

Question 5

Simple sentence

Answer 5

Independent clause

Question 6

Compound

Answer 6

IC + IC

Question 7

Complex

Answer 7

DC + IC

Question 8

Compound-complex

Answer 8

IC + IC + DC

Question 9

Subject

Answer 9

Who or what the sentence is about

Question 10

Simple subject

Answer 10

Only who or what the sentence is about

Question 11

Complete subject

Answer 11

All the compliments and modifiers plus the subject

Question 12

Predicate

Answer 12

Tells what the subject does (verb)

Question 13

Simple predicate

Answer 13

Only the verb or verb phrase

Question 14

Complete predicate

Answer 14

The complete sentence, excluding the complete subject

Question 15

Linking verbs

Answer 15

Links a subject of the sentence to a word in the predicate. They don’t show actions.

Examples: am, is, are, was, were, been, be, and sometimes “feel.”

Question 16

Predicate nominatives

Answer 16

Word in the predicate that renames the subject

Question 17

Predicate adjectives

Answer 17

Word in the predicate that describes the subject

Question 18

Action verbs

Answer 18

Verb that show action

Question 19

Direct objects

Answer 19

Receives the action of a verb

Question 20

Indirect object

Answer 20

To whom or for whom or to what or for what the action is intended.

Question 21

Linking verbs

Answer 21

Don’t show action

Question 22

Action verbs

Answer 22

Show action