A group of words that contains both a Subject and Object, and may or may not be a complete thought.
What is a Clause?
100
A sentence that contains one independent clause.
What is a simple sentence.
100
"Driving through the rain, attempting to get a signal on her cell phone, while her husband slept in the passenger seat."
What is Sentence Fragment?
100
"He's a good boy from Orange County but he's a little bit stuck-up."
What is a Comma after "County?"
100
Identify the Error: "Jay, who has dozens of cars, prefer to walk most places."
What is Subject-Verb Agreement.
200
An action or state of being
What is a Verb?
200
Identify the type of sentence: "While she is not happy being a waitress, she may like teaching school."
What is Complex Sentence?
200
"Whoever is going to the party can you please pick me up and drive me there my car is in the shop."
What is a Run-On Sentence?
200
In Siddhartha, Hesse narrates "He told the old man with the politeness and modesty fitting to young men and students" (23).
What is a Comma after "narrates?"
200
Find the error: "She told me application was not accepted; because I hadn't filled out one of the sections correctly."
What is remove the semicolon after "accepted?"
300
May contain a subject or a verb, but cannot stand alone as a sentence.
What is a Phrase?
300
How many conjunctions are in a complex-compound sentence.
What is 2?
300
"Tomorrow is the day that we finally meet, I am so nervous to see the girl of my dreams."
What is Comma-Splice?
300
"During the night she would appear to him in a dream."
What is a comma after "night?"
300
Identify AND correct the sentence error: "There are three things you can do in college, but you can only accomplish two; sleep, study, and socialize."
What is replace the semicolon after "two" with a colon.
400
Nouns can act as either of these two parts of speech in a clause.
What is Subject and Object?
400
How you make a compound sentence.
What is use a Coordinating Conjunction to connect two Independent Clauses?
400
Working very hard to turn in all of my assignments, my teacher is never disappointed in me."
What is a Dangling Modifier.
400
She told her, "Don't go there girl." (17).
What is remove the period after "girl?"
400
Identify the error: "Mr. H. said that Ryan was a poor student because he waited until the last minute to study for the exam, completed his summaries in a careless manner, and lacked motivation.
What is a Parallel Structure Error?
500
Makes a clause dependent.
What is subordinating conjunction?
500
Provide an example of a Compound-Complex Sentence.
What is answer will vary.
500
Kris is interested and excited about reading Siddhartha.
What is Parallel Structure Error.
500
Can you pay me back for last time, before I fix this problem?
What is remove the comma after "time?"
500
DAILY DOUBLE:
Create a sentence using a colon properly that does not include a list.