Sentence Types
What type of sentence is this?
Have you ever broken your arm?
Interrogative
Name the simple or compound subjects:
Superiors and comrades joined York on the battlefield.
Compound
superiors, comrades
Early one morning York and his unit planned and executed plans for an enemy attack.
Compound
planned, executed
Identify as fragment, comma splice, sentence or fused sentence:
The unit saw two German stretch bearers, York and his men followed the Germans to their headquarters.
Comma Splice
What punctuation does this sentence need?
Joshua yelled bring back my shoe
Joshua yelled, "Bring back my shoe!"
Sergeant York and many other men formed a special nationwide division of soldiers.
Compound
Sergeant York, men
There was extremely stiff resistance from the enemy.
simple
was
How can you fix this comma splice?
The unit saw two German stretcher bearers, York and his men followed the German to their headquarters.
, so
;
period after bearers
What type of sentence is this?
Go shut the door, now!
Imperative
Can you believe we won the Battleship game?
simple
you
York's unit found an empty trench and sneaked behind enemy lines.
compound
found, sneaked
Although the soldiers at the headquarters surrendered to York and his men.
Fragment
What punctuation does this sentence need?
help theirs a yellow jacket on my ear screamed marley
"Help! There's a yellow jacket on my ear!" screamed Marley.
Harriet and Joe raced to the flagpole, and then the bell rang.
Harriet and Joe
What would you have done?
simple
would have done
York stood and fired against the Germans until his rifle became too hot, he next fought six men with bayonets single-handedly and defeated all of them.
Comma splice
What punctuation is need in this sentence?
the name of the book is screwtape letters by c.s. lewis a british author
The name of the book is Screwtape Letters, by C.S. Lewis, a British author.
"For crying out loud, close the window!" yelled the bus driver.
simple
you
"Battles are an ugly affair," said Aslan.
single
are
The remaining German gunners surrendered York and his men returned to their camp with 132 prisoners.
How can you fix it?
Fused sentence
period after surrendered
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