Define It
These words are the action words of a sentence.
verbs
Preposition or Conjunction: After dinner, I will work on homework.
preposition
A _____ sentence has one independent clause.
simple
Uh-oh! Both teams seemed to have earned 100 points!
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These words are the the topic of a sentence .
The subject
Preposition or Conjunction: After we ate dinner, I worked on my homework.
conjunction
A _____ sentence has two or more independent clauses.
compound
Compound sentences contain multiple dependent clauses, but no independent clause; compound-complex is just when you have a compound sentence with a dependent clause, and simple sentences only contain a verb and a subject.
Compound sentences do not contain any dependent clauses; compound-complex is when you have a compound sentence with a independent clause, and simple sentences can contain other words besides a verb and subject.
These words are a part of speech that links together words and phrases.
Conjunctions
List the 5 relative pronouns
A sentence that contains 1 or more independent clauses and 1 or more dependent clauses.
A complex sentence.
IC: My neighbor Ralph always wears a vivid pink suit | I think it's too bright to look at.
DC: which seems to be specially made
Coordinating Conjunctions: but
My neighbor Ralph always wears a vivid pink suit which seems to be specially made, but I think it's too bright to look at.
This word refers to a group of words that will contain either a verb or a noun.
A phrase.
Identify each subject, predicate, and conjunction that might appear in the following sentence.
"The school volleyball team won their game last night, so they are going to the championship game to celebrate. "
Subjects: team ; they
Predicates: won ; are going
Conjunctions: so
Identify what kind the following sentence qualifies as.
"C.S. Lewis, who wrote The Chronicles of Narnia, has a memorial stone in the Abbey, but J.R.R. Tolkien is not memorialized on the property yet.
compound-complex
IC: Anita took the blame for her siblings, | she worked overtime to clean the oven.
DC: Even though Danny Sandra left the oven on last night,
Coordinating Conjunctions: either...or | and
Even though either Danny or Sandra left the oven on last night, Anita took the blame for her siblings, and she worked overtime to clean the oven.
Even though this sentence is only one sentence, it contains multiple subjects; it also contains multiple verbs that all work together to make what kind of sentence?
compound-complex
Identify each subject, predicate, preposition, and conjunction that might appear in the following sentence.
"That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet."
Subject: That | we
Predicate: call | would smell
prepositions: by | as
Conjunctions: which
Identify what kind the following sentence qualifies as.
"Although several British actors, clergymen, and musicians are buried or memorialized in Poet's Corner, located in Westminster Abbey, most of those buried here are mainly writers, playwrights, and poets"
Complex Sentence
IC: Katrina found
DC: who was quite shy | that she enjoyed auditions| that she was fairly talented in it.
Coordinating Conjunctions: not only...but also
Katrina, who was quite shy, not only found that she enjoyed auditions for her local dance company, but also that she was fairly talented in it.