Parts of Speech
Identify the adjective in this sentence: The exhausted students completed the difficult examination.
Exhausted, difficult.
What is an independent clause?
A group of words containing a subject and a verb that can stand alone as a complete sentence.
Is this a simple, compound or complex sentence? The children played in the garden.
Simple sentence.
Correct the mistake: She don't like reading novels.
She doesn't like reading novels.
What is a coordinating conjunction? Give two examples.
A word that joins grammatically equal elements, such as two independent clauses. Examples: and, but, or.
Identify the adverb: She answered the question surprisingly well.
Surprisingly and well.
Identify the dependent clause: Although it was raining, we continued playing.
Although it was raining.
Identify the sentence type: I wanted to go outside, but it started raining.
Compound sentence.
Correct the mistake: He go to school every day.
He goes to school every day.
What does FANBOYS stand for?
For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So.
What is the difference between an adjective and an adverb?
An adjective describes a noun or pronoun. An adverb can modify a verb, adjective, another adverb, or a whole clause.
Identify the independent clause: Because she studied hard, she passed the examination.
She passed the examination.
Identify the sentence type: Although she was tired, she continued studying.
Complex sentence.
Correct the run-on sentence: I was hungry I made a sandwich.
I was hungry, so I made a sandwich.
Identify the subordinating conjunction: I stayed home because I was feeling unwell.
Because.
Identify the prepositions: The students walked through the corridor and into the classroom.
Through, into.
How many clauses are in this sentence? When the bell rang, the students packed their bags and left the classroom.
Two clauses: When the bell rang and the students packed their bags and left the classroom.
Combine these two sentences into one compound sentence: The examination was difficult. The students remained confident.
The examination was difficult, but the students remained confident.
Correct the fragment: Because the students were late.
Because the students were late, they missed the instructions.
Explain the difference between a phrase and a clause.
A clause contains a subject and a verb; a phrase does not contain a complete subject–verb structure.
Identify the word classes of the bold words: She quickly finished her challenging assignment before lunch.
Quickly — adverb; challenging — adjective; before — preposition.
Identify the dependent clauses: Although he was nervous, he delivered his speech because he had practised.
Although he was nervous; because he had practised.
Identify the sentence type: Although the weather was terrible, we continued our journey, and we arrived safely.
Compound-complex sentence.
Correct the punctuation: Although I studied hard I still found the examination difficult.
Although I studied hard, I still found the examination difficult.
Rewrite this simple sentence as a complex sentence: Despite the heavy rain, the match continued.
Although it was raining heavily, the match continued.