Sentence Structure
This is a group of words with a subject and verb that can stand alone as a complete thought.
What is an independent clause?
Choose the correct verb: “The student ___ ready.” (is / are)
What is “is”?
This punctuation mark separates items in a series, as in “pens, pencils, and paper.”
What is a comma?
This word replaces a noun, as “they” can replace “the students.”
What is a pronoun?
Correct the capitalization: “my cousin moved to denver in june.”
What is “My cousin moved to Denver in June”?
This sentence type has two independent clauses joined by a coordinating conjunction or a semicolon.
What is a compound sentence?
Choose the correct verb: “Neither the coach nor the players ___ late.” (was / were)
What is “were”?
This punctuation mark can join two closely related independent clauses without a conjunction.
What is a semicolon?
Choose the correct pronoun: “The teacher spoke to Jordan and ___.” (I / me)
What is “me”?
Add the needed punctuation: “After lunch we returned to class.”
What is “After lunch, we returned to class”?
In “Because the rain stopped, the game resumed,” this kind of clause is “Because the rain stopped.”
What is a dependent clause?
This verb form shows an action that began in the past and continues into the present, often using “has” or “have” plus a participle.
What is the present perfect tense?
This punctuation mark introduces a list after a complete independent clause.
What is a colon?
In “The dog wagged its tail,” this word is the antecedent of “its.”
What is “dog”?
Correct the apostrophe error: “The students essays were displayed in the hall.”
What is “The students’ essays were displayed in the hall”?
This error occurs when two independent clauses are joined with only a comma and no coordinating conjunction.
What is a comma splice?
In “By the time the bell rang, we had finished,” this verb tense shows that one past action was completed before another.
What is the past perfect tense?
In “Maya’s notebook,” this punctuation mark shows that the notebook belongs to Maya.
What is an apostrophe?
Identify the misplaced modifier: “I nearly drove my brother to school every day.”
What is “nearly”? It suggests the speaker almost drove the brother but may not have done so. One possible revision is “I drove my brother to school nearly every day.”
Correct the sentence fragment: “Although the assignment was difficult.”
What is “Although the assignment was difficult, we completed it”? Other complete revisions are acceptable.
This sentence type contains at least two independent clauses and at least one dependent clause.
What is a compound-complex sentence?
Correct the verb tense shift: “She opened the door and sees the empty room.”
What is “She opened the door and saw the empty room”?
This punctuation mark can set off a nonessential phrase in a sentence, as commas do in “The novel, first published in 1925, remains popular.”
What are parentheses or dashes? (Commas are also correct when they clearly set off the nonessential phrase.)
Revise this dangling modifier so the person doing the action is clear: “Walking into the room, the posters caught my attention.”
What is “As I walked into the room, the posters caught my attention”?
Edit this sentence for punctuation and capitalization: “on monday our class visited the museum however we returned before the rain began”
What is “On Monday, our class visited the museum; however, we returned before the rain began”? A period in place of the semicolon is also correct.