Business Communication - Chapters 4 & 5

Sentences have two main parts. These parts are ________.

• noun and adverb

• subject and direct object

• pronoun and adverb

• subject and predicate

The _____ of a sentence is someone or something that receives the action of the verb.

• adverb

• antecedent

• direct object

• indirect object

An _____ is a word that modifies a noun or pronoun.

• adjective

• antecedent

• adverb

• article

A compound sentence how two _____ joined by a conjunction.

• independent clauses

• dependent clauses

• subjects

• predicates

Which of the following describes a clause that gives a complete thought and could stand alone as a separate sentence?

• nonrestrictive clause

• independent clause

• dependent clause

• subordinating clause

A(n) _____ is a type of dependent clause that is essential to the meaning of the sentence.

• nonrestrictive clause

• restrictive clause

• subordinating clause

• independent clause

A(n) _____ is a writing error in which a participle phrase modifies nothing or the wrong person or object.

• preposition

• infinitive

• past participle

• dangling participle

A sentence is written in _____ when the subject performs the action.

• first person

• passive voice

• active voice

• future tense

Pairs of words such as both/and, either/or, and rather/than are known as _______.

• subordinating conjunctions

• coordinating conjunctions

• correlative conjunctions

• participles

An adverb is a word that ______.

• describes a verb, adjective, or clause

• connects or relates its object to the rest of the sentence

• modifies a noun or pronoun

• names a person, place, or thing