AP Lang summer work quiz:

Noun + examples

Person, place or thing

Ex: dog, freedom, pain, feast, continent

Pronoun + examples

A word that replaces a noun, used to reduce repetition

Ex: he, she, it, they, this, myself

Adjective + examples

describes a noun or pronoun

Ex: age, shape, size, propose

Verbs + examples

An action word or state of being

Ex: discourage, photograph, imply, be

Adverbs + examples

Describes how, when, where, and to what extent a verb occurs

Ex: not, to, so, really, after

Conjunctions + examples

They connect words, phrases or clauses

Ex: and, or, but, therefore

prepositions + examples

gives a rational connection between an object and another word or phrase

Ex: under, over, through, up

Interjection + examples

words that express emotion

Ex: gosh, well, darn

Noun phrase

A noun or word acting as a noun and all its descriptors

Verb phrase

a verb and all its modifiers, helpers or descriptors

prepositional phrase

a preposition and its object (noun or phrase) and all modifiers

clause

Groups of words that have a subject and a predicate

Independent. - stand alone sentence

Dependent - need to be attached to an independent clause

Simple Sentences

single independent clause, capital first letter and punctuation

compound sentences

Contains two related independent clauses - joined with comma and conjunction

complex sentences

has two related clauses, but one is independent and the other is dependent

compound - complex sentences

has three clauses - two independent clauses and one dependent clause

Declarative sentence

a statement that ends with a period

imperative sentence

a command; often without a subject or replaced with ‘you’

interrogative sentences

question

exclamatory

ends with an exclamation mark