Sentence types
The number of sets of subjects and verbs a simple sentence has.
What is one set?
One way to make this sentence show agreement:
One of the boys ran their best race.
What is "The boys ran their best race"?
OR
What is "One of the boys ran his best race"?
The idea this sentence conveys: Trapped in the monster’s mouth, Grandma shuddered as she watched the little dog struggle.
What is that the grandma is in the movie monster's mouth?
The fancy punctuation you place between two independent clauses.
What is the semicolon?
The words that need to be changed for this sentence to have strong diction:
Bill was the person who got the award last night.
What are was and got?
What are independent clauses?
There (has, have) been a group of kids waiting outside the doors each morning.
What is has?
(group has)
The best order for the following words:
Made with brown sugar, fresh butter, and crunchy pecans, Mary served a delicious coffee cake.
What is...Mary served a delicious coffee cake made with brown sugar, fresh butter, and crunchy pecans?
A time you do not put a comma before "and."
What is when you are not using it to combine two independent clauses?
OR
What is when you only list two items?
What this sentence needs:
Political candidates focused their efforts on Columbus, Ohio and Des Moines, Iowa.
What is a comma after Ohio?
A complex sentence often begins with this type of conjunction. Give two examples.
What is a subordinating conjunction? What are because, since, while, until, when, if, as, etc.?
Either William or his friends (is, are) sure to know the way to the game.
What is are?
(Match to the closest subject when using either/or)
The best spot to place "only" in this sentence:
An athlete only knows how to perform that stunt.
What is before athlete?
The change needed in the following sentence: She picked up the heavy, bulky, box and placed it in her trunk.
What is take the comma out after bulky?
The problem with this sentence:
The well known magician amazed his audience.
What is a hyphen is needed between well and known?
The type of sentence this is:
We will run to the store after we eat dinner; however, it might snow.
What is a compound-complex sentence?
IC + DC + IC
If it were up to John and (she, her), we would eat at Pizza Ranch instead of Subway.
What is her?
The issue with this sentence: To get this job, special classes and intense studying are required.
What is "to get this job" does not modify anything in the sentence?
The change in punctuation needed in the following sentence: The woman who had worked in the dress shop all summer hoped to work there again during the holidays.
What is no change?
The winners of the RMC scholarship were Joyce and (he/him).
What is he?
The type of sentence this is:
Matilda ran the gauntlet that Jack made while Joe ran the gauntlet that George made.
IC + DC + DC + DC
The place a subject will NEVER be.
What is in a prepositional phrase?
The type of modifier problem found in this sentence: Shortly after making an alliance with the Soviets, the pact was broken.
What is a dangling modifier?
The three conditions for what you might write after a full sentence and a colon.
What are an explanation, a summary, or an example?
The problem with this sentence:
Tiffany was complimented by the coach.
What is passive voice?