Complex Sentence Questions

What is a complex sentence?

• one independent clause and one or more subordinate clauses

• one independent clause

• two or more independent clauses

• two or more independent clauses and one or more subordinate clauses

What is a clause?

• a kind of sentence

• a type of punctuation

• a group of words with a subject and a verb

• a complete thought

What connects a subordinate clause to an independent clause?

• a subject

• a coordinating conjunction

• a comma

• a subordinating conjunction

Which of these choices is a complex sentence?

• Since she hadn't finished her pasta, Kim did not eat dessert.

• Desiree ate spinach, washed her plate, and got dessert.

• Kim ate pasta, and Desiree ate spinach.

• Kim put sauce, broccoli, and chicken on her pasta.

Since the birds were chirping.

• This is a dependent clause.

• This is an independent clause.

• This is a complex sentence.

• This is a compound sentence

an independent clause + a dependent clause =

• compound sentence

• complex sentence

• simple sentence

• narrative sentence

Jimmy laughed at the TV because the clown fell on his face.

• This is an compound sentence

• This is a complex sentence

• This is a simple sentence

• This is a compound-complex sentence.

Find the independent clause in the following choices.

• So that I can do my homework

• Because the team made the playoffs

• When the bananas ripen

• New Hampshire has the shortest coastline of any state.

Find the dependent clause in the following choices.

• Snowboarding was developed in the 1960s.

• Hot fudge sundaes are my favorite.

• Hoverboards can be dangerous toys.

• Because there is a full moon tonight

We ate ice cream.

• This is a dependent clause

• This is a complex sentence.

• This is an independent clause.

• We is a subordinating conjunction in this sentence.