Clauses Chaos
A clause that cannot be its own complete sentence.
What is a dependent clause?
The type of phrase that shows the position in time or place.
What is a prepositional phrase?
This punctuation mark could replace a comma and coordinating conjunction to connect two independent clauses.
What is a semicolon?
The other name for a speaker tag.
What is a dialogue tag?
The author's last name in parentheses at the end of a research word-for-word quote (or author & page number if it's a book).
What is a parenthetical citation?
The type of dependent clauses present in the following sentence:
If you go to Hugo's over lunch, pick me up some sushi that has salmon in it.
What are adverb clauses?
The type of phrase that clarifies a noun and could replace it completely.
What is an appositive phrase?
The two uses of a semicolon in a sentence.
What is connecting two related clauses and separating items in a list that contain descriptions.
The usual punctuation mark used to separate dialogue from a speaker tag.
What is a comma?
The 7 things you need in a Works Cited citation at the end of the essay (use your memory trick...)
What is Author, Title, Website, Date, URL, Accessed Date?
The type of dependent clauses present in the following sentence:
The Chromebook charger, which has a frayed cord, barely turns on anymore unless you hold its cord in place while you charge it.
What are adverb clauses and adjective clauses?
A gerund is a _______ in disguise as a verb
and a participle is a _________ in disguise as a verb...
What is a noun and what is an adjective?
The three uses of a colon.
What is to begin a list, to connect two independent clauses where the second explains the first, and to add emphasis.
All four types of speaker tags.
What is a front tag, an end tag, a middle tag with a complete sentence both sides, and a middle tag that interrupts the dialogue? (Or something similar in description.)
The error in the following sentence:
According to Brandon Kjelness the author of Minds Among Us, "43% of impulse control issues stem from a lack of the correct environment to assist in control" (Hari, 300).
What is "no comma needed between the last name and the page number"?
The dependent clauses present in the sentence below as well as what type of dependent clauses they are.
The park where the new slide is will open on next week Wednesday, which is inconvenient timing.
What is an adjective clause, and what is "where the new slide is" and "which is inconvenient timing"?
The correct type of -ing word present in the sentence below:
I will be dreaming of pizza after I we drove by Little Caesars on the way home.
What is an action verb?
The reason the following sentence has incorrect punctuation:
If you struggle with the grammar you should just follow along with the study guide and review your notes because that will help the most.
What is the missing comma after the beginning dependent clause?
The three errors in the following sentence that includes dialogue:
"We can play Jeopardy" Mrs. Drumm explained, "If everyone keeps the volume to a dull roar.
What is a missing comma after the dialogue?
What is a capital I on If?
What is a missing set of quotation marks at the end of the dialogue?
"Jane Goodall, the person who taught Coco sign language, spent over 20 years studying her kind" (Linden 2).
What is:
According to Linden/Eugene Linden, "Jane Goodall, the person who taught Coco sign language, spent over 20 years studying her kind" (2).
or
On page 2, according to Linden/Eugene Linden, "Jane Goodall, the person who taught Coco sign language, spent over 20 years studying her kind."
The correct TOTAL number of clauses in the sentence below, as well as what types they are:
The evening sky, which was bursting with rainbow colors, illuminated the city's skyline although the clouds that just rolled in tried to block it.
What is one independent clause, two adjective clauses, and one adverb clause?
The correct TOTAL number of phrases in the sentence below:
In the morning, after the sun rises, I wake quickly, cursing the nightmares that twisted my blankets around me in the night, muttering my displeasure.
What is four? (In the morning, around me, in the night, muttering my displeasure)
The reason the following sentence has incorrect punctuation:
I'm not a large fan of: green chiles, the extra spicy kind; crispy onions, covered in crunchy bits; and onions, the red ones or the white ones.
What is there is no independent clause before the colon?
The error in this sentence containing dialogue:
"If you won an award," announced Mr. Strandell, the principal of Grand Forks Central High, who was stressed about the performance, he said, "please move to the right side of the gymnasium, the part toward the bleachers."
What is "there are two speaker tags"?
An explanation of whether or not the following quote is correct: (yes, because... or no, because...)
In her groundbreaking book, Gloria Marks, neuroscientist, explains that most people "Are attempting to control their impulses but struggle greatly." (Hari 23)
No, because of the capital A in the partial quote and the misplaced period at the end.