Grammar Review

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.

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?