Vaired Sentence Beginnings Vocab

Question 1

Subject

Answer 1

A noun (person,place, thing, animal or idea)

Question 2

Adverb

Answer 2

Modifies a verb, an adjective or another adverb. Adverbs tell how , where , when or to what extent. A comma immediately follows

Question 3

Phrase

Answer 3

A group of words that is either missing a subject or a predicate ( verb) and a comma immediately follows

Question 4

Dependent clause or subordinate clause

Answer 4

A group of words that have a subject and predicate but cannot stand alone as a sentence and a comma immediately follows . These clauses begin with subordinating conjunctions

Question 5

Prepositional phrase

Answer 5

Begins with a preposition

Question 6

Present participle

Answer 6

Use an “ing” phrase

Question 7

Past participle

Answer 7

Use an “ed” word

Question 8

Subordinating conjunction

Answer 8

These help you expressly relationship about the content of your topic such as compare/contrast or cause/effect

Question 9

Infinitive phrase

Answer 9

“To plus verb