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Grand Grammar

Types of Sentences

Question:

Which type of sentence consists of one independent clause and expresses a complete thought?


Answer:

Simple Sentence



Question:

What is another word for a sentence that gives a command?


Answer:

Imperative



Question: Which type of sentence asks a question (the other word for question)?
Answer: Interrogative

Question: Which sentence consists of at least two independent clauses joined by a coordinating conjunction?
Answer: Compound Sentence

Question: Which type of sentence would use an interjection?
Answer: Exclamations/Exclamatory

Nouns

Question:

What is a noun?


Answer:

A person, place, thing or idea.



Question:

You must do what to a proper noun?


Answer:

Capitalize



Question:

What type of noun takes the place of a noun?


Answer:

Pronoun



Question:

Which noun identifies to whom a sentence is directed and is separated from the rest of the sentence with a comma?

Example: Girls, watch out! 


Answer:

Noun of direct address.



Question: What is a noun or pronoun that follows a linking verb and renames the subject?
Answer: Predicate Nominative

Verbs

Question:

What does a verb do?


Answer:

Shows action, links a description to the subject, or helps another verb.



Question:

What verb means that no action is transferred to an object?


Answer:

Intransitive verb.



Question:

What verb transfers the action from the subject to an object.


Answer:

Transitive verb.



Question:

What type of verb makes a assertion by joining two words.


Answer:

A linking verb.



Question:

What type of verb modifies a verb, an adjective or another _____? 

Hint: They answer How? When? Where? To what extent?


Answer:

Adverb.



Abbreviations

Question:

What is the abbreviation for subject noun when diagramming a sentence?


Answer:

SN



Question: What is the abbreviation for article adjectives?
Answer: AJ

Question:

What is the abbreviation for intransitive verb?


Answer:

Vi



Question:

What is the abbreviation for a verb transitive?


Answer:

Vt



Question:

What is the abbreviation for Predicate Nominative?


Answer:

Pn



Assorted

Question:

What receives the action of the verb and completes the meaning of the sentence? 


Answer:

Direct object.



Question:

What connect words, phrases, or sentences together?


Answer:

Conjunction.



Question:

What is a, the, and an called when diagramming a sentence?


Answer:

Article adjective



Question:

What type of word relates a noun or pronoun to another word?


Answer:

A preposition.



Question:

This follows the direct object and describes what the object has become.

 


Answer:

What is an object compliment adjective