Grammar Knowledge

Target Language or Knowledge:

determiner the first word in a noun group adjective a word used to describe a noun simple What type of sentence is one independent clause verb an independent clause can only have one ........ noun The last word of a noun group article a / an / the are called quantifier this tells us how many of a noun (some / ten / a few) demonstrative this / that / these / those are called ............... possessive tells us who owns the noun compound a sentence that uses a conjunction to join two independent clauses complex a sentence with a dependent clause and one or more independent clauses because one conjunction is ............... tense we change the verb to make past .............. recount a story written or spoken in past tense dependent a clause beginning with if / when / because is called ........... independent a clause that contains the full meaning is called ............ subject the first part of a sentence is called the ............... object the last part of a sentence is called ............. prepositional a phrase beginning with a preposition is called ............. reason the conjunctions so and because give us a result and ..............