Basic Sentence Concepts

Complete the following definition:

A sentence is a _____________________.

• group of words that expresses a complete thought.

• group of words that is a fragment.

• group of words that is grammatically incorrect.

• group of words that does not express a complete thought.

What questions are answered by a sentence's subject?

• How?/Why?

• Who/What?

• What?/When

• Why?When?

What part of speech is the simple subject?

• Noun

• Adjective

• Verb

• Article

What is the most important part of speech in a predicate?

• Noun

• Adjective

• Verb

• Adverb

What is the subject in the sentence provided?

Arthur is my best friend.

Read the following group of words. Which option has the correct order of words?

today./The/test/is

• The test is today.

• is The is today.

• The today is test

• test is The today.

Organize the following words into a complete sentence:

oranges./apples/and/likes/Max

Organize the following words into a complete sentence:

a/heard/I/bell/in the morning.

Organize the following words into a complete sentence.

Which one of the following sentences is correct?

my/think/dropped/I/I/pencil

• I think I dropped my pencil.

• I dropped I think my pencil.

• Pencil I think I dropped.

• My pencil I think I dropped.

Which one of the sentences is the correct version of the sentence provided below?

he likes dogs, but he doesn't like cats

• he likes Dog, but he doesn't like cats?

• He like dogs, but he don't likes cats....

• he like the dogs, but he don't like cat.

• He likes dogs, but he doesn't like cats.