Sentences
"The puppy and the rabbit ate carrots."
What type of sentence is this?
Simple
This is a person, place, thing, object, or idea.
Noun
Example: "I like juice."
One
"I like seashells they are beautiful"
"I like seashells. They are beautiful."
"I like seashells because they are beautiful."
"I like seashells; they are beautiful."
"I like seashells, for they are beautiful.
Where should a comma go in a compound sentence?
Before the coordinating conjunction
"The puppy and the rabbit ate carrots." Name the subject AND the verb of this sentence.
Subject = the puppy and the rabbit
Verb = ate
students
"I hid Sally's stapler, and she could not find it." How many independent clauses and dependent clauses are in this sentence?
2 independent
0 independent
"You can have grapes, you can have oranges."
Comma splice
"You can have grapes, or you can have oranges."
"You can have grapes; you can have oranges."
This punctuation mark is similar to a period, but it connects independent clauses that are related.
Semicolon (;)
"Friday is my favorite day because I don't have class after school."
What type of sentence is this?
Complex
"Matilda and Peter ran to the store, but they were out of popsicles." What are the coordinating conjunctions in this sentence?
and, but
"Paragraphs are easy to write because you can follow a simple structure." What is the dependent clause in this sentence, and what is the subordinating conjunction?
"because you can follow a simple structure"
subordinating conjunction = because
"Miyajima was my favorite place I went to in Japan. Because there were deer everywhere and a very nice beach."
Second sentence is a fragment
Delete the period and make "because" lowercase
Name three transition words that you could use in a paragraph to introduce your first reason.
first, firstly, to begin, to start, first of all, for starters
"We can get ice cream, or we can go to the movies." What type of sentence is this? Name all the clauses.
Compound
"We can get ice cream" and "we can go to the movies" are both independent clauses.
"Cardinals are very interesting birds." What is the verb in this sentence?
are
"The rabbit jumped down the rabbit-hole." What is the prepositional phrase?
down the rabbit-hole
"There are many people in the world who wants to change things."
Subject-verb agreement error: "people" is plural but "wants" is singular. Change to "want"
Name three qualities of formal (academic) writing.
No contractions, no "you," statements instead of questions, transition words and phrases, no slang
"We can go to the movies, but if you want to save money, we should go on Tuesday."
What type of sentence is this? Name all the clauses.
Compound-complex
"We can go to the movies" = independent
"if you want to save money" = dependent
"we should go on Tuesday" = independent
"The yellow dog sat on the log for an extremely long time in the beautiful afternoon and thought about life." Name all the adverbs and adjectives in this sentence.
Adverb = extremely
Adjective = yellow, beautiful, long
"The owl swooped through the air and landed on the ground right next to the hiker." Name all the prepositional phrases in this sentence.
Through the air
On the ground
Right next to the hiker
"Yesterday I went to the store, but they didn't have milk, so I had to go home and tell my mom that they were out, and she ended up going back to ask them when they were going to get the kind we wanted."
Rambling sentence
Break up the sentence somewhere
Mary had many daugher's, and they were all very kind.
What is the name of the punctuation mark in "daughter's"? Is it being used correctly? Explain.
Apostrophe
No. Apostrophes show ownership, but this is a plural noun. Delete the apostrophe.