Punctuation
"The boy was excited to go to the theme park but he was too small for the rides."
Comma
"The boy was excited to go to the theme park, but he was too small for the rides."
What type of sentence is this?
"I drove the car."
Simple Sentence
Which is the independent and dependent clause in the following sentence?
"We had to go home, because it was pouring with rain."
Independent: We had to go home
Dependent: because it was pouring with rain.
Verbs are doing, being and having words.
What do you need to make a simple sentence?
A subject and a verb.
What punctuation is missing from this sentence?
"There are seven colours in the rainbow red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet."
Colon
"There are seven colours in the rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet."
What type of sentence is this:
"I drove the car and parked it in the garage."
Compound sentence
Which is the independent and dependent clauses in the following sentence?
"I burnt my mouth as the tea was scalding hot."
Independent: I burnt my mouth
Dependent: as the tea was scalding hot.
What is a sentence that asks a question, called?
Interrogative sentence
What is an adjective?
Adjectives are describing words. They describe nouns and pronouns.
What punctuation is used to separate two sentences that are related to group words (clauses) together in a list?
Semi-colon
What type of sentence is this:
"They did not come because they were feeling ill."
Complex sentence
Which is the independent and dependent clauses in the following sentence:
"Because it was cold, I heated my tea in the microwave."
Independent: I heated my tea in the microwave
Dependent: Because it was cold
What are words that join other words, phrases, and clauses to one another.
Conjunctions
What is a sentence that expresses a command?
Imperative sentence
Apostrophes can be used to indicate possession. Using the following examples, where do you put the apostrophe?
The mans coat.
The cousins parents.
Singular: The man's coat.
Plural: The cousins' parents.
What type of sentence consists of a conjunction, (two or more) independent clauses and a dependent clause?
Compound-complex sentence
What is an adverbial clause?
A type of dependent clause, made up of a group of words which play the role of an adverb.
What do you call a group of words that is not a grammatically complete sentence?
Fragment
What is the difference between a hyphen and a dash?
Dash - create a change of direction in a sentence. Stronger than a comma but not as strong as a full stop.
What punctuation joins words of syllables together to make the meaning clear?
Hyphens
What type of sentence is the following:
"Though I've been writing sentences since primary school, I'm worried about this and I think I might struggle."
Compound-complex sentences
What is an adjectival clause?
A type of dependent clause that describes the noun of the sentence.
What is a second noun, or a phrase or clause equivalent to a noun, that is placed beside another noun to explain it more fully?
Appositive
What is the difference between active and passive voice?
Active voice: the subject does the action of the verb.
Passive voice: the subject is inactive and an action is done to it.