Interjections
Identify the one interjection in the sentences below:
Really! This why it's very important to wash food containers before putting them into the recycling bin!
really
List all of the coordinating conjunctions (FANBOYS).
For, and, nor, but, or, yet, so
Select the one subject in the following sentence:
Matthew, much to his own surprise, was enjoying himself.
Matthew
Select the predicate in the following sentence:
She had liked to think of that.
had liked to think of that
Complete the sentence with the best subordinating conjunction:
Graves are important for archeology ______ they show us what earlier people valued.
because
Identify the one interjection in the sentence:
Eventually, another man began to claim that he was George Elliot, ugh.
ugh
Choose the correct coordinating conjunction to complete the sentence:
For high school students, studies showed that doing about two hours of home work is helpful, _____ doing more than two hours of homework tends to be much less effective.
but
Select the one subject in the dependent clause from the following sentence:
If you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison', it's certain to disagree with you sooner or later.
you
Select the predicate in the following sentence:
Bats are the true acrobats of the sky.
are the true acrobats of the sky
Subordinating conjunctions signal the beginning of what type of clause?
dependent clause
Identify the one interjection in the passage:
Since consumers assume that recyclable products won't end up in a landfill, they feel less guilty buying single-use goods. Uh oh!
Un oh
Select the one coordinating conjunction in the sentence below:
This may explain the need for extra sleep--the body needs time to heal, and the mind needs extra time to recover.
and
Select the one subject in the following sentence:
The Klondike strike dragged men from all the world into the frozen North.
strike
Select the predicate in the following sentence:
Sara cast one of her quick looks about her.
cast one of her quick looks about her
Complete the passage below with the correct subordinating conjunction:
Within days, protests raged across Tunisia ____ citizens called for the president to step down.
as
Identify the one interjection in the sentence:
Aw, he went on about how much he loved the book.
aw
Identify the missing pair for each of the correlative conjunctions:
Either/
Neither/
Both/
Either/or
Neither/nor
Both/and
Select the one subject in the following sentence:
Disruption of grave sites is not a new problem.
disruption
Select the predicate in the following sentence:
Biobots are changing how we think of robots.
are changing how we think of robots
Select the one subordinating conjunction in the sentence below:
Once plastics arrive at the chaotic patch in the ocean, they will remain in a tangled mess until they are broken down into smaller pieces of plastic.
once
Identify the two interjections in the passage:
Whoa, 15-20% of what we put in our recycling bins is actually recycled. Yikes!
Whoa/Yikes
Choose the correct coordinating conjunction to complete the sentence:
We are close to the disaster, _____ we are not in it.
but
Select the one subject in the following sentence:
The exterior of the submarine must be carefully constructed and the cabin pressurized so that it can withstand the outside pressure of the water above.
the exterior
What does a predicate to?
Tells what the subject is doing or state of being
Select the one subordinating conjunction in the following sentence:
As natural selection acts solely by the preservation of profitable modifications, each new form will tend in a fully-stocked country to take the place of, and finally to exterminate, its own less improved parent or other less-favoured forms with which it comes into competition.
as