Grammar Review
Across
- 2. What part of speech usually expresses an action like “sing” or “bite”?
- 3. What group of words begins with a preposition and ends with a noun or pronoun?
- 4. What grammatical concept changes a verb to show time, like “sings” versus “sang”?
- 7. What kind of verb connects the subject to more information, like “am” or “is,” often indicating a state of being?
- 10. In the sentence "The woman with the helmet is a motorcyclist," what is the preposition?
- 11. What do you call a subject or predicate that has two or more parts?
- 12. In the sentence "The cashier gave the change to me," what is the preposition?
- 14. What is the infinitive form of the verb, when used as a helping verb, can take forms like "have," "had," or "will have"?
- 17. What is the noun or pronoun at the end of a prepositional phrase called?
- 19. What is usually a noun or pronoun at the beginning of the sentence, often the doer of the action?
- 20. In the sentence "My cousin from Finland will arrive," what is the predicate?
- 24. What is the verb or verb phrase showing the main action or state in a sentence?
- 25. What kind of verb is smells in the following sentence: The cake smells good.
Down
- 1. What part of speech shows the relationship between a noun or pronoun and another word in the sentence?
- 5. Linking verbs like “feel,” “look,” “smell,” “sound,” and “taste” are verbs of what?
- 6. What must you find and ignore before identifying the subject and predicate?
- 8. What do you call it when a prepositional phrase has two or more objects?
- 9. What preposition is used in "Asa worked until dawn," showing time?
- 13. What kind of verb is smells in the following sentence: Ellen smells the cake.
- 15. What is the infinitive form of the verb that, when used as a helping verb, can take forms like "am," "is," "are," "was," or "were"?
- 16. What type of verb connects the subject to information about the subject without showing action?
- 18. What type of verb is always used with a second verb to show tense, form a question, or add emphasis?
- 21. What is it called when you use “do,” “does,” or “did” strongly to show you really mean something?
- 22. What part of speech is never found inside a true prepositional phrase?
- 23. What tool are you allowed to use on quizzes to help find prepositions, instead of memorizing?