English 2DI
Grammar Review
Name: ______________________
1. Identify the requested elements in the following sentence:
The ship churned past us and left us bouncing and bobbing in its frothy wake.
2 nouns: ________________, __________________
4 verbs: _________________, __________________, __________________, _____________
1 adjective: ___________________
Type of sentence: _______________________
2. Identify the requested elements, and follow instructions for the following sentence:
Through the grapevine, every whale of the Pacific knew of me, and I would have
been saved earlier if Pimphoo hadn’t sought help from a Japanese ship with the
dastardly crew that harpooned her.
a) Find 3 common nouns: _____________________, __________________, _______________
b) Find 3 pronouns: __________________, _____________________, ________________
c) Find one mental action verb: _______________________
d) Find 3 helping verbs: ______________________, ______________, _______________
e) Find one physical action verb: __________________________
f) Find one adverb: _________________
g) Find 2 adjectives: ________________________
h) Find 2 proper nouns: ___________________, _____________________
i) What does the word “through” function as? ________________________
j) Identify the subordinate conjunction: _________________
k) Identify one proper adjective. ________________________
l) Put round brackets around all the prepositional phrases (5 in total).
m) Put square brackets around the subordinate (dependent) clause.
n) Underline the entire main (independent) clause(s).
3. For the following sentence, identify the parts of speech:
When I fired off a rocket flare and whistled with all my might, the oil tanker’s
engines rumbled loudly and its propellers chopped explosively underwater.
i)
find 2 adverbs: __________________________, _______________________________
ii)
put square brackets around a subordinate clause
iii)
underline once each independent clause
iv)
identify the sentence type: ___________________________________
English 1DI
Grammar Review
Name: ______________________
1. Identify the requested elements in the following sentence:
The ship churned past us and left us bouncing and bobbing in its frothy wake.
2 nouns: ship, wake
4 verbs: churned, left, bouncing, bobbing
1 adjective: frothy
Type of sentence: simple (has a compound predicate)
2. Identify the requested elements, and follow instructions for the following sentence:
(Through the grapevine), every whale (of the Pacific) knew (of me), and I would
have been saved earlier [if Pimphoo hadn’t sought help (from a Japanese ship)
(with the dastardly crew) that harpooned her.]
a) Find 3 common nouns: grapevine, whale, ship, crew
b) Find 3 pronouns: me, I, her
c) Find one mental action verb: knew
d) Find 3 helping verbs: would have been
e) Find one physical action verb: saved, sought, harpooned
f) Find one adverb: earlier
g) Find 2 adjectives: Japanese, dastardly
h) Find 2 proper nouns: Pacific, Pimphoo
i) What does the word “through” function as? preposition
j) Identify the subordinate conjunction: if
k) Identify one proper adjective. Japanese
l) Put round brackets around all the prepositional phrases (5 in total).
m) Put square brackets around the subordinate (dependent) clause.
n) Underline the entire main (independent) clause(s).
4. For the following sentence, identify the parts of speech:
[When I fired off a rocket flare and whistled with all my might], the oil tanker’s
engines rumbled loudly and its propellers chopped explosively underwater.
i)
find 2 adverbs: loudly, explosively, underwater
ii)
put square brackets around a subordinate clause
iii)
underline once each independent clause
iv)
identify the sentence type: compound-complex