Unit 1
What are the four types of sentences?
Declarative, Interrogative, Imperative and Exclamatory
Synonym for something difficult
Adversity
To sort things into groups
Classification
Changing quickly
Dynamic
What is the complete subject of this sentence?
Our whole family searched the house for my sister's missing shoe.
Our whole family
What is a sentence?
A group of words that express a complete thought.
An antonym for this word is freedom
Confinement
The fog often ____________parts of the bridge in the morning.
Engulfs
To push on something
Exert
What is a compound sentence?
Two sentences joined together.
What is a sentence fragment?
A group of words that does not express a complete thought.
The weight of the birds bent these type branches.
Spindly
What do coordinating conjunctions do?
They join words or sentences.
To fall rapidly
Plummet
What is the complete predicate in this sentence: The strongest swimmers crossed the bay
crossed the bay
What are the 3 ways to properly punctuate a compound sentence?
A comma with a conjunction; a semicolon; or a period to make 2 separate sentences
What does the subject of a sentence do?
Tells who or what the sentence is about.
What are correlative conjunctions?
These are conjunctions that normally appear together in a sentence like either/or and neither/nor.
What is a dependent clause?
It may have a subject and verb, but it cannot stand alone without an independent clause to support it.
Does this sentence have a compound subject or a compound verb: The group of visitors took a bus to lower Manhattan and walked to the Empire State Building.
Compound verb
Give me an example of a complex sentence.
Student answers will vary
What is a comma splice?
When you join two independent clauses without using a conjunction.
Give me 5 subordinating conjunctions.
after, although, as, before, because, if, since, until, when, where, and while.
What is the simple predicate in this sentence: My sister, Alyssa, heard the faint mews of a cat outside our door.
heard
The actors in the play put on a great show
a. every day
b. for the audience
c. because they rehearse so often
Your answer should make this a COMPLEX sentence.
because they rehearse so often.