It is acts as a noun?

The most basic form of a verb, often accompanied by “to”?

Choose the gerund in this sentence: Eating strawberries without washing them might make you sick.

Choose the gerund phrase in this sentence: You should stop texting; you're going to cause an accident.

True or False: Gerunds can be subjects, adjectives, and adverbs.

True or False: All gerunds have to end in -ing.

What is the infinitive/infinitive phrase in the following sentence?

My entire life I have always wanted to be a teacher.

What is the infinitive/infinitive phrase in the following sentence?

Eating a balanced diet allows a person to keep healthy.

Which of the following is not an infinitive?

it’s a phrase made up of an infinitive and the words that give it clarity?

It is modified verbs that take on the role of adjectives?

What phrases that contain participles and their modifiers?

What phrase that includes an appositive and the noun (or pronoun) it describes?

________ are short descriptions that add detail about a noun by defining it.

What type of punctuation is typically used in an appositive phrase?

Where can an appositive phrase be found in a sentence?

What's the appositive phrase? Melissa, my sister in college, called me last night.

What's the appositive phrase? I sent my dad, a quite serious man, a silly gift for Christmas.

____________ are phrases that communicate specific ideas through “softer,” more polite language.

_________ are typically used to avoid speaking directly about subjects that evoke an unpleasant image or otherwise make he speaker or listener uncomfortable.

__________ is a pithy phrase that uses figurative language to describe something?

Sayings that convey a general truth or observation—usually through metaphor—are known as______?

__________ is a type of saying that, like an adage, expresses a universal truth.

It is another kind of phrase that expresses a point through symbolic language?

It is typically used for rhetorical and storytelling purposes and come in many forms?

What figure of speech is comparing objects using the words like or as?

What figure of speech is comparing objects without using the words like or as?

What figure of speech is describing human traits, actions, or emotions to animals or objects.

_________ is a group of words that contains a subject and a verb that have a relationship?

What type of clause that can stand on its own as a distinct sentence?

_______ is not a complete sentence.

Its also known as simple sentences?

What's the appositive phrase? Hillde, my sweet little dog, cuddled up in the blankets.

What's the appositive phrase? Keith, the boy in a rumpled shirt, didn't know how to iron.

What figure of speech is being asked? "The little stars, like little children, went first to bed." 

What figure of speech is being asked? The candle flame danced in the dark.

What figure of speech is being asked? She was fairly certain that life was a fashion show.

What figure of speech is being asked? Thunder grumbled and raindrops reported for duty.

What figure of speech is being asked? She hung her head like a dying flower

Which is the Dependent Clause?

Because my tea was too cold, I heated it up in the microwave.

Which is the Independent Clause?

You should take your car in for a service because it's starting to make weird noises.

Independent or Dependent? Unless my dad comes home.

Independent or Dependent? I will have to make dinner.

Find the infinitive in the following sentence.

Jerry wanted to run all the way home.

Find the infinitive in the following sentence.

Nona was not allowed to play guitar for band.

Find the INFINITIVE PHRASE in the following sentence.

Preston wants to run for office in the next election.

Identify the infinitive phrase. If there is no infinitive, choose none.

He wished more than anything for his father to appear in front of him.

Identify the infinitive phrase. If there is no infinitive, choose none.

Tony didn’t have the heart to tell them the bad news.

Identify the infinitive phrase. If there is no infinitive, choose none.

To win the lottery, one must first play the lottery.