Review for Unit 4: Parts of Speech (plus)

Which part of speech shows a relationship between nouns in a sentence? ex: A plane flies through a cloud.

• adjective

• preposition/prepositional phrase

• pronoun

• adverb

Which part of speech is a person, place, thing, or idea?

• dangling modifier

• conjunction

• adjective

• noun

What kind of word looks like a verb (ends in "ing") but functions like a noun?

• infinitive

• dangling modifier

• misplaced modifier

• gerund

What words appear in sequence with one another to describe the same noun?

• adverbs

• gerunds

• coordinate adjectives

• misplaced modifiers

What words express physical or mental action?

• verbs

• adverbs

• nouns

• adjectives

What kind of sentence combines an independent and dependent clause with a subordinate conjunction?

• complex

• compound

• compound-complex

• simple

What part of speech is the glue that holds words, phrases, and clauses together?

• adjectives

• conjunctions

• pronouns

• gerunds

An independent sentence is also called

• a simple sentence.

• a compound sentence.

• a complex sentence.

• a compound-complex sentence.

Words or phrases that modify something you didn't intend to modify are

• adverbs.

• adjectives.

• misplaced modifiers.

• dangling modifiers.

What sentence type has a dependent clause and two or more independent clauses?

• simple

• compound

• complex

• compound-complex