Conjunctions
Connect elements of a sentence or text and show how they relate to each other.
What are conjunctions?
T/F This a simple sentence: The cat and the dog ran and rolled around in the yard.
What is true?
A compound sentence contains two of these joined by a conjunction or semi colon.
What are independent clauses?
A compound sentence has an _________ clause and a ______ clause.
What is independent and dependent?
A noun in verb form ending in –ing.
What is a gerund phrase?
Conjunctions can be used to connect these two items
What are independent and dependent clauses?
True or false? This is a simple sentence:
Mom and Dad went home while I stayed at the mall.
What is false?
True or False This is a compound sentence: Jody and Steve ate ice cream.
What is false? -- It's a simple sentence.
The independent clause in the sentence:
The game will be delayed unless it stops raining.
What is the game will be delayed?
A phrase beginning with a present or past participle and its objects, complements, or modifiers.
What is a participial phrase?
Is used between the final two items, and a comma before the conjunction is optional.
What is a coordinating conjunction?
Simple sentences don't have these.
What are conjunctions or dependent clauses?
True or False? This is a compound sentence: Soccer is played everywhere; I played soccer in England.
What is true?
The dependent clause in the sentence:
While we are learning to jump rope, they are learning to juggle.
What is while we are learning to jump rope?
Contains two independent clauses joined with a comma and a coordinating conjunction.
What is a compound sentence?
The words that make up F.A.N.B.O.Y.S.
What are; for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so?
True or False? A semi colon can be found in a simple sentence.
What is false?
Fill in the blank: Jason Aldean sang a song last night on tv, ______ I didn't get to watch it.
What is but?
Both an independent clause and a dependent clause contain these two things.
What is a subject and a predicate?
Consists of a single independent clause and one or more dependent clauses.
What is a complex sentence?
Often used as a transition and placed at the beginning of one independent clause to show how it relates to the previous statement
What is a conjunctive adverb?
These two things always start a simple sentence and end a simple sentence.
What are capital letters and punctuation?
What are the four correlative conjunctions that can be found in a compound sentence?
What are;
1.neither . . . nor
2. not only . . . but
3. also whether . . . or
4. either . . . or
List 5 subordinating conjunctions
What are:
after although because if since though that when
where whether which while who why before until
A noun or a noun phrase that renames a nearby noun or pronoun.
What is an appositive?