Clauses
What is another term for "Independent Clause"?
What is Main Clause?
What do adjective clauses modify?
What are nouns and pronouns?
What do adverbs modify?
What are verbs (and adjectives)?
What connects two independent clauses to create a compound sentence?
What is a conjunction?
Name a relative pronoun that can start an adjective clause.
What are who, whom, whose, that, or which?
ADV or ADJ: Chaucer's English sounded so different that we wouldn't be able to understand him.
What is ADV?
What is another term for "Dependent Clause"?
What is a subordinate clause?
Who, Whom, or Whose: Cynewulf, [blank] who was a poet, wrote religious poems in the local dialect around 800 CE.
Who
ADV or ADJ: Plays that were written over 400 years ago by Shakespeare are still relevant today.
What is a sentence called if it has both an independent and dependent clause?
What is a complex sentence?
Who, Whom, or Whose: Ovid, [blank] work popularized the myths of Ancient Greece, heavily inspired Shakespeare.
Whose.
ADV or ADJ: An interesting aspect of linguistics that students can study is etymology.
What is ADJ?
Phrase or Clause: When the Celts fled from the Germanic invaders.
What is phrase?
Who, Whom, or Whose: The first fantasy story was written by [blank]?
Whom.
Does this have an adverb clause?: The Hundred Years’ War with France made the British more nationalistic than they had been in the previous years.