Types of Sentences
This type of sentence contains two or more independent clauses and no subordinate clauses.
What is a compound sentence?
Sentence parts linked by these three coordinating conjunctions should be parallel.
What are "and", "but", and "or"?
Correct this run-on by separating the independent clauses:
We went to the bonfire, it was a huge gathering.
We went to the bonfire. It was a huge gathering.
Non-essential clauses have this type of punctuation before and after them.
What are commas?
A noun or pronoun that identifies or explains the noun or pronoun that precedes it.
What is an appositive?
This type of sentence has one independent clause and at least one subordinate clause.
What is a complex sentence?
Sentence parts linked by, for example, "not only... but also", "both... and", "either... or", and "neither... nor" should be parallel. What do we call these phrases?
What are correlative conjunctions?
This type of punctuation can be placed between two independent clauses in a run-on sentence, and does not require the addition of any conjunctions.
What is a semi-colon?
Is the clause essential or non-essential?
I like the work of a poet named John Ashbury.
A phrase made up of an appositive and all of its modifiers.
What is an appositive phrase?
The number of subordinate clauses in a compound-complex sentence.
What is at least one?
If a sentence is not in correct parallel form, it is referred to as this type of sentence.
What is "faulty"?
Coordinating conjunctions can be used to correct a run-on sentence. So can adding this type of word with a semi-colon before it and a comma after it.
What is a coordinating adverb?
Is the clause essential or non-essential?
The names "Bob", "Rob", "Bobby", and "Robby" are all nicknames for "Robert."
What is essential?
Identify the appositive:
Starbucks' new drink, Pumpkin Spice Latte, is delicious to drink in the fall season.
What is Pumpkin Spice Latte?
Name the type of sentence:
On Wednesdays, Althoff students and faculty attend Mass, and school does not start until 9:10 a.m.
What is a compound sentence?
Fix the faulty sentence.
Carpooling to school is more convenient than to take the bus.
"Carpooling to school is more convenient than taking the bus to school."
OR
"To carpool to school is more convenient than to take the bus to school."
Create a clause to fix the following run-on:
The cabinet was locked, Dawn found the key.
[answers will vary]
Even though the cabinet was locked, Dawn found the key.
OR
Although the cabinet was locked, Dawn found the key.
Essential or non-essential?
Cafe Ventana, a coffee shop off of Vandeventer in St. Louis, makes an excellent chai tea latte.
Non-essential.
Identify the appositive.
The book The Lord of the Flies is about a group of boys trying to survive on an island in the aftermath of a plane crash.
What is The Lord of the Flies?
Name the type of sentence:
Three adorable little puppies are running after an old, chewed-up tennis ball bouncing down the hall.
What is simple?
Fix the faulty sentence:
To prepare for the homecoming dance, Justin plans a prom-posal, is asking his girlfriend to go with him, and shops for a tux.
"To prepare for the homecoming dance, Justin plans a prom-posal, asks his girlfriend to go with him, and shops for a tux."
OR
"To prepare for the homecoming dance, Justin is planning a prom-posal, is asking his girlfriend to go with him, and is shopping for a tux."
Give an example of a conjunctive adverb.
[answers will vary]
however, therefore, nevertheless, still, also, instead
Essential or non-essential?
On vacation, they visited Alcatraz, the most famous prison in the United States.
Non-essential.
Turn the following two sentences into one sentence by using an appositive phrase.
"Enigmatic" means "difficult to understand or explain." "Enigmatic is the Word of the Day.
"Enigmatic", the Word of the Day, means "difficult to understand or explain".