Conjunctions
"But at that moment a ring was heard."
What is "But"?
"She went into the dining room."
What is "into the dining room"?
"On returning home, he carefully scrutinized the hat stand."
What is "he"?
Identify the subject and verb: "I am so happy!"
What are "I" and "am"?
Identify the italicized clause: "Flinging away his cigar, Sergey Ivanovitch advanced with resolute steps towards her."
What is a dependent clause?
Determine the sentence type: "As soon as he arrived in Petersburg, people began to talk about him as a newly-risen star of the first magnitude."
What is a complex sentence?
Identify the following as a complete sentence, fused sentence, comma splice, or fragment: "Levin smiled joyfully he was struck by this transition from the confused, verbose discussion with Pestsov and his brother to this laconic, clear, almost wordless communication of the most complex ideas."
What is a fused sentence?
Determine the verb tense: "Picking his steps, he moved up to the dog."
What is past tense?
"Levin was glad to talk about himself, because then he could speak without hypocrisy."
What is "because"?
"The ladies of the Sviazhsky household were particularly delightful."
What is "of the Sviazhsky household"?
"'That's where we Russians are so deficient.'"
What is "Russians"?
Identify the subject and verb: "Her hands rose and dropped onto his shoulders."
What are "hands" and "rose and dropped"?
Identify the italicized clause: "An attempt at divorce could lead to nothing but a public scandal, which would be a perfect godsend to his enemies."
What is a dependent clause?
Determine the sentence type: "Levin looked at Kitty, and he had never before seen her look as she did."
What is a compound sentence?
Identify the following as a complete sentence, fused sentence, comma splice, or fragment: "'I've got to go to Bryansky's, I shall be home within an hour.'"
What is a comma splice?
Determine the verb tense: "After lunch, Levin is not in the same place as before, but stands between the old man and a young peasant."
What is present tense?
"He neither recognized the man's authority nor accepted it as a given."
What are "neither" and "nor"?
"This was evident from his confusion and embarrassment in reading the minutes."
What are "from his confusion and embarrassment" and "in reading the minutes"?
"Their homeward journey was as lively as their drive out had been."
What is "journey"?
Identify the subject and verb: "Vronsky, standing beside Oblonsky, watched the carriages and the passengers, totally oblivious of his mother."
What are "Vronsky" and "watched"?
Identify the italicized clause: "When he reached the point about the fundamental and radical law, his opponent jumped up and began to protest."
What is an independent clause?
Determine the sentence type: "'Blessed are the peacemakers; theirs is the kingdom of heaven,' said Betsy."
What is a compound sentence?
Identify the following as a complete sentence, fused sentence, comma splice, or fragment: "As she came nearer and nearer to the familiar breeding places there was more and more earnestness in Laska's exploration."
What is a complete sentence?
Determine the verb tense: "After she gets him to speak about painting, she will listen to him attentively."
What is future tense?
"'I know you and all your tastes, though I have seen so little of you."
What is "though"?
"Over the snow-covered roofs could be seen a decorated cross with chains."
What are "Over the snow-covered roofs" and "with chains"?
"On the writing table was a stand of drawers marked with gold lettering, and full of papers of various sizes."
What is "stand"? (I will accept "stand of drawers" as well).
Identity the subject and verb: "He could now think calmly of Alexey Alexandrovitch."
What are "He" and "could think"?
Identify the italicized clause: "Seryozha looked with scared eyes at his father, and could think of nothing else to say."
What is an independent clause? (implied "he").
Determine the sentence type: "The servant, whose turn it was to be up all night, lit his candles."
What is a simple sentence with an appositive?
Identify the following as a complete sentence, fused sentence, comma splice, or fragment: "Seryozha jumped up and went to his father, and kissing his hand."
What is a fragment?
Determine the verb tense: "The recollection of her son suddenly rouses Anna from the helpless condition in which she finds herself."
What is present tense?
"Stepan Arkadyevitch had gone down to his room, undressed, again washed, and attired in a nightshirt, he had got into bed, but Levin still lingered in his room, talking of various trifling matters, and not daring to ask what he wanted to know."
What are "and," "but," and "and"?
"The first days of her existence in the country were very hard for Dolly."
What are "of her existence," "in the country," and "for Dolly"?
"With a sense of weariness and uncleanness from the night spent in the train, in the early fog of Petersburg, Alexey Alexandrovitch drove through the deserted Nevsky and stared straight before him."
What is "Alexey Alexandrovitch"?
Identify the subject and verb: "In the little German watering-place to which the Shtcherbatskys had betaken themselves, as in all places indeed where people are gathered together, the usual process, as it were, of the crystallization of society went on."
What are "process" and "went on"? (everything preceding this is either a dependent clause and/or prepositional phrase).
Identify the italicized clause: "Whether the labor devoted to obtaining the money corresponded to the pleasure given by what was bought with it, was a consideration he had long ago dismissed."
What is a dependent clause? (FYI: though it is confusing, this first clause functions as the subject of the sentence, with "was" acting as its verb).
Determine the sentence type: "The colonel, Demin, had taken a large country house."
What is a simple sentence with an appositive?
Identify the following as a complete sentence, fused sentence, comma splice, or fragment: "Darya Alexandrovna's eyes were fairly dazzled by the elegant carriage of a pattern she had never seen before: the splendid horses, and the elegant and gorgeous people surrounding her."
What is a complete sentence?
Determine the verb tense: "The deacon's hand in a plush cuff accepted a three-rouble note unobtrusively, and the deacon said he would put it down in the register, and his new boots creaking jauntily over the flagstones of the empty church, he went to the altar."
What is past tense?