Fragments vs. Sentence
Prepositional Phrases
Independent vs. Dependent
Compound
Complex
100

DP: Name two things needed for a sentence.

What are capital letters and punctuation?

What are subject and a verb?

What is it makes sense?

100

What does P. A. N. stand for?

What is Preposition, Article, Noun?

100

Define a Dependent Clause.

What is a fragment?

What is a clause that can't stand alone?

100

What does I;I stand for?

What is Independent Semicolon Independent?

100

What does ID stand for?

What is Independent Dependent?

200

Define fragment?

What is an incomplete phrase?

What is a dependent phrase?


200

Identify the P. A. N.: The five men disappeared without a trace.

What is without a trace?

200

Define an Independent Clause.

What is a complete sentence?

What is a clause that can stand alone?

200

What does I,cI stand for?

What is Independent Comma Conjunction Independent?

200

What D,I stand for?

What is Dependent Comma Independent?

300

Define verb and subject.

What is action and who or what is doing the action?

300

An infinitive is to + a verb. Give an example of an infinitive.

What is to walk (answers may vary)?

300

Indep. or Depen.: Even though she suffered from arthritis.

What is dependent?

300

DP: List the seven coordinating conjunctions.

What are For, and, nor, but, or, yet, so?

300

Give an example of a subordinating conjunction.

•while •once •unless •after •although •before

•because •even if 

since •when •if •whenever •whose •until

400

Sentence or fragment: The bear in the scary, dark forest.

What is a fragment?

400

Name two types of articles and an example of both.

What are: 

  • Common articles
    • a, and, the, at
  • Numbers
    • one, third, fourth, fiftieth
  • Pronouns
    • he, she, they
  • Time:
    • 2:00pm, noon, midnight
400

Idepend. or Depend.: She studied hard because she wanted to go to medical school in London. 

What is independent?

400

What does a compound sentence contain?

What are two or more independent clauses?

400

What does a complex sentence contain?

What is a dependent clause and an independent clause?

500

Sentence or fragment: If we go out to eat later on tonight.

What is a fragment?

500

DJ: If the prepositional phrase is in the middle of a sentence, how many commas does it get?

Place commas in the proper place: The doctor like a boss set my broken leg.

What is two?

What is: The doctor, like a boss, set my broken leg.

500

Identify both the independent and dependent clauses in the sentence: The human brain never stops working until you stand up to present in public. 

Independent: The human brain never stops working.

Dependent: until you stand up to present in public

500

Identify the sentence formula: “It rained all night, so I couldn’t mow the lawn in the morning.”

What is I,cI?

500

Identify the sentence formula: “If you save your money, you can buy a new bike.”

What is D, I?