Grammar Exercises: Syntax and Word Classes

Answers will vary. Example: Intransitive: The bird sings. Transitive: The girl sings a song. Pair: The dog runs. The dog runs the race.

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Subject: The police. Predicate: arrested the bank robber.

<p>Subject: This factory. Predicate: produces a revolutionary new type of fax machine.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Subject: That stupid waiter. Predicate: gleefully spilt soup all over my trousers.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Subject: The stuntman. Predicate: smashed sixteen cars in five minutes.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Subject: She. Predicate: probably painted the President's portrait at the palace.</p> Signup and view all the answers

Verbs that do not require a direct object to complete their meaning.

Verbs that require a direct object to complete their meaning.

The part of a sentence that indicates who or what the sentence is about.

The part of a sentence that tells what the subject does or is.

Words that replace nouns in sentences.

The actual noun or phrase that a pronoun refers to.

Categories of words based on their functions, such as nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc.

The way in which different parts of a sentence are organized.

Categories of verbs including transitive, intransitive, linking, and auxiliary verbs.

Activities that practice understanding and applying grammar rules.

Statements that provide information or describe realities.

Verbs that express physical or mental actions.

Verbs that connect the subject to additional information about the subject.

Helping verbs that are used with main verbs to form tenses, moods, and voices.

A sentence that includes one independent clause and at least one dependent clause.

A sentence that contains a subject and a verb, expressing a complete thought.

A sentence with at least two independent clauses usually joined by a conjunction.

Words that represent persons, places, things, or ideas.

Words that describe or modify nouns.

Words that modify verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs.