Writing Complete Sentences Quiz

Grade 1 · English · Quiz

Test your understanding of complete sentences, subjects, and predicates.

Questions

Which group of words is a complete sentence?
1. jumped high
2. The frog jumped high.
3. the frog
4. Very high jump
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Answer: The frog jumped high.
'The frog jumped high.' has a subject (The frog), a predicate (jumped high), starts with a capital, and ends with a period.
In the sentence 'My sister sings,' what is the subject?
1. sings
2. My sister
3. sister sings
4. My
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Answer: My sister
'My sister' is the subject — it tells who the sentence is about.
In the sentence 'The sun shines brightly,' what is the predicate?
1. The sun
2. sun shines
3. shines brightly
4. The
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Answer: shines brightly
'Shines brightly' is the predicate — it tells what the sun does.
Which punctuation mark ends a question?
1. Period (.)
2. Comma (,)
3. Exclamation point (!)
4. Question mark (?)
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Answer: Question mark (?)
A question mark (?) goes at the end of every question.
Which sentence is written correctly?
1. the bird flies south.
2. The bird flies south.
3. The bird flies south
4. the Bird flies south.
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Answer: The bird flies south.
The sentence starts with a capital T and ends with a period, making it correctly written.
Which is a sentence fragment?
1. We played at the park.
2. The little red
3. Birds can fly.
4. I love books.
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Answer: The little red
'The little red' is a fragment — it has no predicate telling us what the little red thing does.
Every sentence must have a subject and a predicate.
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Answer: True
A complete sentence always needs both a subject (who/what) and a predicate (what it does).
The part of the sentence that tells what the subject does is called the ______.
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Answer: predicate
The predicate tells what the subject does or is.

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