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Identify the Subordinate Conjunctions (on a white bus)
Mystery
Identifying Independent Clauses
Identifying Dependent Clauses
Simple, Compound, or Complex Sentence
100
While he waited at the train station, Joe realized the train was late.
What is While?
100
A group of words that has a subject, verb, and expresses a complete thought.
What is an independent clause?
100
After I came home, I made dinner.
What is I made dinner?
100
When he handed in his homework, he forgot to give his teacher the last page.
What is when he handed in his homework?
100
As Joe sat down on the rickety old chair, it abruptly collapsed beneath him.
What is a complex sentence?
200
When he handed in his homework, he forgot to give his teacher the last page.
What is When?
200
A group of words that cannot stand alone as a sentence.
What is a dependent clause?
200
We visited the museum before it closed.
What is We visited the museum?
200
The students are studying because they have a test tomorrow.
What is because they have a test tomorrow?
200
I am going to the dance, so I have to buy a new dress.
What is a compound sentence?
300
I warmed the soup in the microwave because it was too cold.
What is because?
300
In a compound sentence, the types of clauses that are present.
What are two independent clauses?
300
Whenever they eat at this restaurant, they eat a hamburger and fries.
What is They eat a hamburger and fries?
300
Tim and Rose went to the movies after they finished studying.
What is after they finished studying?
300
During last night’s thunderstorm, a flurry of tiny hailstones danced across the roof of our house.
What is a simple sentence
400
I learned a valuable lesson about cheating after I changed a mark on my report card in the third grade.
What is after?
400
In a complex sentence, the types of clauses that are present.
What an independent clause and a dependent clause?
400
He’ll be able to maintain a healthy weight if he keeps exercising.
What is He’ll be able to maintain a healthy weight?
400
I studied for the test all day on Saturday even though I was invited to go to the movies with my friends.
What is even though I was invited to go to the movies with my friends?
400
The right hemisphere of the human brain typically controls muscle movement on the left side of the body.
What is a simple sentence?
500
I studied for the test all day on Saturday even though I was invited to go to the movies with my friends.
What is even though?
500
A FANBOY conjunction always follows this in a compound sentence.
What is a comma?
500
Because the bridge wasn’t’ properly maintained by the government, it fell down.
What is It fell down?
500
While he waited at the train station, Joe realized the train was late.
What is While he waited at the train station?
500
The weather forecast had predicted severe thunderstorms, but the dark, heavy thunderclouds never materialized.
What is a compound sentence?