Combining Sentences

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100

This word means 'what the sentence is about'.

What is the subject?

200

All the words beginning from the verb make up this part of the sentence.

What is predicate?

300

Read the sentence: 'The cat and dog were sleeping on the rug.' The cat and dog make up the part of this sentence.

What is compound subject?

400

From the sentence: 'The cat and dog were scratching and biting each other.' '...were scratching and fighting each other' make up this part of the sentence.

What is the compound predicate?

500

This is an example of a way to combine independent clauses.

What is  a comma and coordinating conjunction?

2

100

The following sentence is an example of this type of sentence. "The detective and his partner chased the thief, but only the detective actually caught him".

What is a compound sentence (or joining two independent clauses)?

200

The following shows what type of sentence. "Since the detective was able to catch the thief, the officer didn't have to run very far."

What is one way of making a complex sentence (or joining an independent clause and a dependent)?

300

The following is an example of this type of sentence. 'The detective got a medal, yet the thief got ten years.'

What is a compound sentence?

400

This sentence is an example of this type of sentence. 'Tom and Jill read about it in the newspaper.'

What is an example of a simple sentence or independent clause?

500

Read the sentence: 'The weather warmed and improved in the south.' 'warmed and improved' is an example of this.

What is an example of a compound predicate?

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100

The following description describes this type of clause: 'This has a subject and a predicate but does not make sense by itself.'

What is a dependent clause?

200

The following is an example of this type of clause. 'We gathered wood for a fire.'

What is an example of an independent clause?

300

'After we ate' is an example of this type of clause.

What is an example of a dependent clause?

400

These are examples of words that begin dependent clauses. They may come at the beginning of a sentence or in the middle.

What are words like which, who, that, before, and since ?

500

Read the sentence: Some other campers that we met shared their campfire with us. "That we met' is an example of this.

What is a dependent clause?

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100

The following is an example of this type of clause: 'The cat sat on the mat.'

What is an independent clause?

200

This part of speech is missing from the following sentence: 'The cat and dog spaghetti.'

What is a verb?

300

Read the sentence: Jason, Daisuke and all the members of Ms Matthew's EAP class like to write essays. 'Like to write essays' is an example of this.

What is a predicate?

400

Claire, Mai, Sunny and the EAP class love learning grammar. "Claire, Mai, Sunny an the EAP class' is an example of this.

What is a compound subject?