What is a group of words with more than one subject and more than one predicate (verb).
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What are other names for dependent and independent clauses?
What is sentence fragment and complete sentence.
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What is a compound sentence?
What is two independent clauses joined by a comma and coordinating conjunction (FANBOYS) or a semi-colon.
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"I ate the cheese you bought."
What is the subject of this sentence? Explain.
What is "I" is the subject because it is the person doing the main action in the sentence.
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What are the subject and verb in the following sentence: "The girl is quick".
What is "girl" and "is"
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Run-on sentences are missing commas and periods, both of which are examples of _____________?
What is punctuation.
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If you're reading a story, what alerts you to the fact that there is a dependent clause?
What is a dependent marker word or a subordinating conjunction
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List in order the conjunctions represented by "FANBOYS".
What is "for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so".
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Why is an independent clause different from a simple sentence?
What is an independent clause can stand on it's own, but it can also be a part of a simple sentence.
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"The girl's strength."
What is this group of words called and what is it missing?
What is a sentence fragment and verb (predicate).
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What are 2 ways you can fix a run-on sentence?
What is you can add a period or create a compound sentence with FANBOYS
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Explain why the following is an independent clause:
"The cheetah is hungry."
What is There is a subject and a verb.
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Where does the comma go in a compound sentence?
What is before the coordinating conjunction.
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"The school is no longer open but the library still is so students can still get books."
What is missing from this compound sentence?
What is a comma before "but".
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The girls and their friends thinks about what they will do this summer."
Do the subject and verb agree?
What is no, they do not agree.
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The boy was walking to the store after the rain had fallen before there was snow and he tried to kick the ball as he walked he also expected to meet his friend.
Is this a run-on sentence or a complete sentence? How do you know? ("It's too long" is not an acceptable answer.)
What is yes, there are too many subjects and predicates
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Give an example of a dependent marker word (subordinating conjunction)
What is while, after, because, before, although...there are several possible answers
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You can have dependent clauses in compound sentences: true or false?
What is false
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"Nor" (the "n" in FANBOYS) can only be used in a positive sentence.
True or false?
What is false. "Nor" can only be used in a negative sentence.
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"The winter months, the best part of the year, is going to be a great time."
Do the subject and verb agree in this sentence?
What is no, they do not.
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Fix this group of words so that it is no longer a run-on sentence.
"I ate salami and cheese for lunch today lunch was good because of the food it was bad because of the company."
What is "I ate salami and cheese for lunch today. Lunch was good because of the food, but it was also bad because of the company."
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"The teacher gave the prizes to the students, after they won the jeopardy contest."
Identify the dependent and independent clauses.
What is "the teacher gave the prizes to the students" is independent and "after they won the jeopardy contest" is dependent.
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True or false: the following is a compound sentence:
"Sammy and Joey, after they had washed their hands, ate the candy and the hot dogs."
What is no.
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"When you are studying grammar, even though it is hard, you should always try to make silly sentences."
What type of sentence is this?