Unit 1 Academic Vocabulary Quiz 8th Grade

A sentence with one independent clause and at least one dependent clause

• Complex Sentence

• Compound-Complex Sentence

• Compound Sentence

• Simple Sentence

A sentence having two or more coordinate independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses.

• Complex Sentence

• Compound-Complex Sentence

• Compound Sentence

• Simple Sentence

A sentence with more than one subject or predicate

• Complex Sentence

• Compound-Complex Sentence

• Compound Sentence

• Simple Sentence

A word used to join words or groups of words

• Conjunction

• Dependent Clause

• Independent Clause

• Predicate

Information from the reading that hints at a word's meaning

• Context clues

• Plot

• Predicate

• Conjunction

Does not express a complete thought and cannot stand alone as a sentence

• Dependent Clause

• Independent Clause

• Conjunction

• Predicate

Expresses a complete thought and can stand alone as a sentence. Has both a subject and a verb.

• Dependent Clause

• Independent Clause

• Conjunction

• Predicate

Sequence of events in a story

• Simple sentence

• Conjunction

• Plot

• Context Clue

Tells what the subject is or does

• Conjunction

• Dependent Clause

• Independent Clause

• Predicate

A sentence consisting of one independent clause and no dependent clause

• Complex sentence

• Compound-complex sentence

• Compound sentence

• Simple sentence