Deck 3: Subjects, Verbs, and Other Sentence Parts

Question 1

Which of the following is not one of the eight parts of speech?

A) prepositions
B) modulators
C) nouns
D) adjectives

Answer 1

modulators

Question 2

When a helping verb is combined with a main verb, they create a unit called a ___________.

A) verb phrase
B) linking verb
C) verbal
D) adverb

Answer 2

verb phrase

Question 3

Which of the following is not one of the questions that an adjective answers?

A) What kind?
B) How many?
C) What size?
D) Who?

Answer 3

Who?

Question 4

Which of the following is not a commonly used pronoun?

A) I
B) they
C) but
D) we

Question 5

Which of the following is not one of the questions that an adverb answers?

A) When?
B) How?
C) What?
D) How often?

Question 6

___________ are words used to express emotion.

A) Prepositions
B) Conjunctions
C) Interjections
D) Pronouns

Question 7

___________ give information about a state of being, a quality, or an important characteristic of the subject they are describing.

A) Action verbs
B) Linking verbs
C) Helping verbs
D) Adverbs

Question 8

Which of the following is not a helping verb

A) be
B) below
C) have
D) might

Question 9

When a sentence has two or more verbs for the same subject-connected by and or but-we say that it is/has a ___________.

A) compound sentence
B) compound subject
C) complex verb
D) compound verb

Question 10

When a sentence has two or more subjects that are performing the same action or that are being described by the same verb, we say that it is/has a ___________.

A) compound sentence
B) compound subject
C) complex verb
D) compound verb

Question 11

The verb is ___________ in the following sentence: "Jeffrey and Jermaine hugged their beaming parents."

A) their
B) hugged
C) beaming
D) parents

Question 12

The subject is ___________ in the following sentence: "Jeffrey and Jermaine hugged their beaming parents."

A) Jermaine
B) Jeffrey
C) Jeffrey, Jermaine
D) their parents

Question 13

The verb(s) is(are) ___________ in the following sentence: "Jun Li had considered Harvard, but then decided to go to Princeton instead."

A) considered
B) considered, decided
C) had considered, decided
D) had considered, decided, go

Question 14

The subject(s) is(are) ___________ in the following sentence: "Jun Li had considered Harvard, but then decided to go to Princeton instead."

A) Jun Li
B) Harvard
C) Princeton
D) Harvard, Princeton

Question 15

The verb is ___________ in the following sentence: "My husband becomes an entirely different person during football season."

A) entirely different
B) becomes
C) different
D) during

Question 16

The subject(s) is(are) ___________ in the following sentence: "My husband becomes an entirely different person during football season."

A) person
B) husband
C) my husband, person
D) football season

Question 17

The verb(s) is(are) ___________ in the following sentence: "You should always cover your face when coughing or sneezing."

A) should always cover, coughing, sneezing
B) should always cover
C) cover, coughing, sneezing
D) should cover

Question 18

The subject(s) is(are) ___________ in the following sentence: "You should always cover your face when coughing or sneezing."

A) You
B) face
C) coughing, sneezing
D) your face

Question 19

The verb is ___________ in the following sentence: "Many of the residents of New Orleans were stranded on rooftops after Hurricane Katrina."

A) stranded
B) were stranded
C) residents
D) were after

Question 20

The subject is ___________ in the following sentence: "Many of the residents of New Orleans were stranded on rooftops after Hurricane Katrina."

A) residents
B) New Orleans
C) Hurricane Katrina
D) Many

Question 21

And and nor are simple subjects.

Question 22

Action verbs tell about a state of being; linking verbs show something happening.

Question 23

Nouns name a person, place, thing, concept, or quality; pronouns are used in place of nouns.

Question 24

Adjectives describe nouns or pronouns; adverbs describe only verbs.

Question 25

Pronouns are words that stand in place of nouns.

Question 26

Prepositions are combined with nouns and pronouns to form prepositional phrases.

Question 27

Conjunctions are words that link sentence parts.

Question 28

Coordinating conjunctions are words such as because and although; subordinating conjunctions are words such as or and so.

Question 29

In most cases, for a sentence to be a sentence, it must have a subject, a verb, and a complete object.

Question 30

One test for a verb is to see if it has a tense: present, past or future.

Question 31

Verbals may look like verbs, but they actually are not verbs.

Question 32

Words such as always and not should not be considered part of the verb.

Question 33

The simple subject includes just the subject by itself; the complete subject includes the subject plus its immediate describing words or word groups.

Question 34

Only nouns can be subjects in a sentence.

Question 35

The subject of a sentence is never found within a prepositional phrase.