Study Session toPrepare for the Final Exam

The moon is staring down at me.

Is this sentence a fragment, run-on, simple, compound, or complex sentence?

Is this sentence a declarative, imperative, exclamatory, or interrogative?

Which literary device is demonstrated in this sentence?

What is the complete subject? Simple subject? Complete predicate? Simple predicate?

Does you see an action verb, a linking verb, or a verb phrase?

The moon is staring down at me.Is this sentence a fragment, run-on, simple, compound, or complex sentence?

Simple (one subject-predicate pair)

Is this sentence a declarative, imperative, exclamatory, or interrogative?Declarative (statement- not a question or command & does not reveal strong emotion)

Which literary device is demonstrated in this sentence?Personification (the moon taking on the quality/ability of a human)

What is the complete subject? Simple subject? Complete predicate? Simple predicate?Complete subject: The moon, Simple subject: moon, Complete predicate: is staring down at me, Simple predicate: is starring

Does you see an action verb, a linking verb, or a verb phrase?Verb phrase (is= helping verb, staring=action verb)

Each team member brought their trophy, they all took pictures after the tournament.

What is wrong with this sentence?

Each team member brought their trophy, they all took pictures after the tournament.

What is wrong with this sentence?

This is a run-on sentence. (One cannot join two simple sentences with just a comma. Replace the comma with a semicolon or add a coordinate conjunction <fanboys>after the comma.)

Each is a singular pronoun, so their must be changed to “his or her.”

Before Sean asked her out, he was extremely nervous.

Is this sentence a fragment, run-on, simple, compound, or complex sentence?

Is the verb “asked” transitive or intransitive? How do you know?

Is “was” transitive or intransitive? How do you know?

What part of speech is “extremely”? How do you know?

How do you know “Before Sean asked her out” is not a prepositional phrase?

Before Sean asked her out, he was extremely nervous.

Is this sentence a fragment, run-on, simple, compound, or complex sentence?Complex (two subject-predicate pairs with no semicolon or comma FANBOYS)

Is “was” transitive or intransitive? How do you know?Intransitive (Linking verbs are always transitive)

What part of speech is “extremely”? How do you know?Adverb (-ly suffix indicates adverb)

How do you know “Before Sean asked her out” is not a prepositional phrase?It contains a subject-predicate pair (prepositional phrases do not)

Lauren did good on her test, so she listened to the song Happy on her way home from school.

What is wrong with this sentence?

Lauren did good on her test, so she listened to the song Happy on her way home from school.

What is wrong with this sentence?

“good” should be changed to “well” because an adverb is needed to modify the verb “did”

Happy should be punctuated with quotation marks because it is the title of a song.

Lauren did well on her test, so she listened to the song “Happy” on her way home from school.

That beeping phone kept distracting my aunt in the movie theatre!

Is this sentence a fragment, run-on, simple, compound, or complex sentence?

Why is “aunt” not capitalized?

What type of verbal is the word “beeping”?

Why is “movie theatre” not capitalized?

Is this a declarative, imperative, exclamatory, or interrogative? How do you know?

That beeping phone kept distracting my aunt in the movie theatre!

Is this sentence a fragment, run-on, simple, compound, or complex sentence?Simple (one subject-predicate pair)

Why is “aunt” not capitalized?There is a personal pronoun before it in the sentence.

What type of verbal is the word “beeping”?Participle- a verb disguised as an adjective (and participles can end in –ing or -ed)

Why is “movie theatre” not capitalized? It is not the official name of the theatre like Point Cinema.

Is this a declarative, imperative, exclamatory, or interrogative? How do you know?Exclamatory (exclamation mark indicates emotion)

Ms. Wilson my dad’s boss called him over the weekend to finalize a project, for an upcoming deadline.

What is wrong with this sentence?

Ms. Wilson my dad’s boss called him over the weekend to finalize a project, for an upcoming deadline.

What is wrong with this sentence?

Commas should be placed after “Wilson” and after “boss” to signify a non-essential clause.

The comma should be removed after “project” because commas do not set off prepositional phrases at the end of a sentence.

Ms. Wilson, my dad’s boss, called him over the weekend to finalize a project for an upcoming deadline.

Correctly cite the book according to the information provided below:

Title: The Hunger GamesAuthor: Suzanne CollinsPublishing Company: ScholasticCity of Publication: New YorkYear: 2008

Correctly cite the book according to the information provided below:

Collins, Suzanne. The Hunger Games. New York: Scholastic, 2008.

If their going to the Field Museum of natural history in Chicago we should ask Thomas’s dad if we can go

along.

What is wrong with this sentence?

If their going to the Field Museum of natural history in Chicago we should ask Thomas’s dad if we can go along.What is wrong with this sentence?

Change “their” to “they’re” (their indicates possessive nature but they’re means they are).

Capitalize “Natural History” as it is part of the official name of the museum.Add a comma after “Chicago” to separate the dependent clause from the

independent clauseIf they’re going to the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, we should ask Thomas’s dad if we can go along.

Between the two of us, my sister is taller.

Why does the word “between” belong in this sentence rather than the word “among”?

What comparative suffix do you see?

Is this sentence simple, compound, or complex? How do you know?

Why is there a comma after the word “us”?

What is the verb in this sentence? Is it an action verb or a linking verb? Transitive or intransitive?

Between the two of us, my sister is taller.

Why does the word “between” belong in this sentence rather than the word “among”?The sentence is referring to two people (among is used when referring to three or more)

What comparative suffix do you see?-er

Is this sentence simple, compound, or complex? How do you know?Simple (one subject-predicate pair: sister-is)

Why is there a comma after the word “us”?Commas set off prepositional phrases at the beginning of a sentence (but NOT at the end of a sentence)

What is the verb in this sentence? Is it an action verb or a linking verb? Transitive or intransitive?is (linking verb and therefore intransitive) *all linking verbs are intransitive

Match the following literary devices1. Hyperboles are used to….

2. Colloquialisms are found in…

3. Metaphors are used by authors to…

4. Alliteration is used to…

a)informal writing because they are slang terms or expressions to indicate age/geographical region

b) make the words memorable and/or pleasing to the ear of the reader

c) make comparisons so that readers can better understand and/or relate.

d) exaggerate an idea.

Correct matches…1. Hyperboles are used to…. d) exaggerate an idea.

2. Colloquialisms are found in… a)informal writing because they are slang terms or expressions to indicate age/geographical region

3. Metaphors are used by authors to… c) make comparisons so that readers can better understand and/or relate.

4. Alliteration is used to… b) make the words memorable and/or pleasing to the ear of the reader

Correct any singular-plural pairs that are incorrect.

1. deer-deer

2. hypotheses-hypothesis

3. data-datum

4. series-series

5. nucleus-nuclei

6. phenomenon-phenomena

7. ox-oxes

8. matrix-matrices

Corrected pairs in red1. deer-deer

2. hypothesis-hypotheses

3. datum-data

4. series-series

5. nucleus-nucleuses

6. phenomenon-phenomena

7. ox-oxen

8. matrix-matrices

• Irregular plurals