Is the verb transitive or intransitive?

The barking dog scratched the door.

transitive

(direct object: door)

Is the sentence passive or active?

The door bell was finally repaired.

passive

What is the prepositional

phrase below?

During the night, he snored.

During the night

What is the complete subject?

A huge storm cloud covered the sky.

A huge storm cloud

What is the conjunction in the

following sentence?

Alyssa and Sara helped plan the party.

and

How do you punctuate the name

of a newspaper?

underline or italics

Find the capitalization error.

We need to go east on South street, Dad.

Street should be capitalized

Is the sentence simple or compound?

After dinner, my brothers and I built a fort and

watched the stars.

simple

True or False

All linking verbs are intransitive.

True

Which figure of speech do you see?

I almost died of boredom watching that video.

hyperbole

Which sentence do you see? (simple, compound,

complex)

He ran; I didn’t.

He ran; I didn’t.

compound

What is the simple predicate?

The bus will come in ten minutes?

will come

Which figure of speech do you see?

Her locker was a garbage dump.

metaphor

Fragment, run-on, or complete sentence?

We took the train to Chicago, it took three

hours.

run-on

Where is a comma missing?

During the summer I will clean out the attic.

During the summer, I will clean out the attic.

Comparative or superlative?

The students were happier when they didn’t

have homework.

comparative

Find two errors in this sentence.

Jimmy can you tell my dad that I have a Science test to

study for?

Jimmy, (needs a comma after it)

science (lowercase)

Simple, compound, or complex?

If he pays for the ticket, I’ll go to the

movie.

complex

Transitive or intransitve?

Passive or active?

They sold more than fifty cups of lemonade.

Transitive, active

Locate the infinitive and the participle.

The splashing boy was learning how

to swim.

splashing- participle

to swim- infinitive

Locate the direct and indirect object. Then decide if the sentence is declarative or

imperative.

The tour guide lent us binoculars for the hike.

direct object: binoculars

indirect object: us

declarative

Locate the gerund. Then state if the sentence is simple, compound, or complex.

Studying for the final is stressful, but I really want to do

well on it.

gerund = studying compound sentence

Decide if the following sentence is comparative or superlative.

Then decide if it is exclamatory or interrogative?

That movie was the best ever!

exclamatory, superlative

What is the simple subject

of the following sentence?Is the verb transitive or

intransitive?

Jackie, Nikki, and Jill forgot their homework.

Jackie, Nikki, Jill

transitive

Which requires quotation marks when punctuating the

title?

Magazine or magazine article?

magazine article

Fix any errors that you find:

Travis turn East on the freeway to get too my Dads’

house.

Travis, turn east on the freeway to get to my dad’s

house.