Simple Sentences Quiz

Kindergarten · English · Quiz

Test your understanding of what makes a complete sentence.

Questions

Which group of words is a complete sentence?
1. My cat.
2. The fish swims.
3. Big and blue.
4. Runs very
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Answer: The fish swims.
This has a naming part (the fish) and a doing part (swims) — a complete thought.
Sentences always end with a punctuation mark.
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Answer: True
Every sentence must end with a period, question mark, or exclamation point.
Every sentence must begin with a ___ letter.
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Answer: capital
The first word of every sentence starts with an uppercase (capital) letter.
In 'The frog jumps,' what is the doing part?
1. The
2. frog
3. The frog
4. jumps
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Answer: jumps
The doing part tells what happens — 'jumps' is what the frog does.
'The sun shines.' is a complete sentence.
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Answer: True
'The sun shines.' has a naming part (the sun), a doing part (shines), starts with a capital, and ends with a period.
Which word makes this a sentence: 'The bird ___'?
1. big
2. very
3. sings
4. blue
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Answer: sings
Sings is a doing word that completes the thought. The other words are describing words, not actions.
A ___ tells a complete thought.
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Answer: sentence
A sentence is defined as a group of words that tells a complete thought.
'Jumped over the' is a complete sentence.
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Answer: False
'Jumped over the' is missing the naming part (who jumped?) and the thought is unfinished.
What goes at the end of the sentence 'I love cats'?
1. A comma
2. A period
3. A capital letter
4. Nothing
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Answer: A period
A telling sentence ends with a period (.).
A sentence needs both a naming part and a doing part.
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Answer: True
A sentence must tell us who or what (naming part) and what they do (doing part).

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