Grammar test

What does a prepositional phrase start with and end with?

Start with a preposition (in, on, at, before, after, above)

and ends with a noun (person, place, thing)

What kind of clause cannot stand alone?

Dependent clause

What part of the sentence shows who, or what, is doing the action?

subject

What is, one or more words that show position or a relationship between nouns

preposition (on, in, at, to, with)

What is an incomplete sentence often called?

fragment

What connects clauses or items in a list

conjunction

What kind of clause can stand alone as a sentence

Independent clause

What happens when two independent clauses are joined without a conjunction or semicolon?

Run-on sentence

What part of a sentence can usually be removed and still leave a complete sentence

prepositional phrase

What part of the sentence can usually be removed and still leave a complete sentence

prepositional phrase

What shows the action in a sentence?

the predicate

What are the five common forms of the verb to be?

am, is, are ,was, were

What comes after an independent clause and before an example?

a colon

What comes in between two independent clauses?

A semicolon