English Essentials Quiz

English Essentials Quiz

by Troy Rueckert

A clause

• ​“is a group of words containing a subject and predicate”

• ​“A clause contains a subject and verb, and it can convey a complete idea.”

​A phrase

• “A phrase is a group of words that stand together as a single grammatical unit, typically as part of a clause or a sentence.”

• ​“A phrase does not contain a subject and verb and, consequently, cannot convey a complete thought.”

• “A phrase contrasts with a clause.”

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What is the different between a phrase and a clause?

​Coordinating conjunctions

​“Coordinating conjunctions coordinate or join two or more sentences, main clauses, words, or other parts of speech which are of the same syntactic importance.”

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What are coordinating conjunctions?

​An easy way to remember the coordinate conjunctions is....

​For

​And

​Nor

​But

​Or

​Yet

​So

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What are the coordinate conjunctions?