Week 8 - Complex Sentences & Root Words

Which is the correct complex sentence structure?

• One independent clause
• One dependent clause
• An independent clause and a dependent clause
• A simple sentence with a subject and verb

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CCSS.L.3.1H

CCSS.L.5.1E

CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.3.1I

CCSS.L.7.1B

Subordinating conjunctions start which type of clauses?

• independent clauses
• dependent clauses
• both a and b
• simple sentences

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CCSS.L.7.1A

CCSS.L.9-10.1B

When a subordinating conjunction starts a sentence, a comma is required.

• True
• False

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CCSS.L.4.2C

CCSS.L.6.2A

Which word is not a subordinating conjunctions.

• If
• When
• While
• Summer

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CCSS.L.3.1H

CCSS.L.5.1E

CCSS.L.1.1G

CCSS.L.5.1A

Which sentence is an independent clause?

• Jill likes to go to the beach.
• Whenever you finish.
• If you read The Outsiders.
• Before you eat breakfast.

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CCSS.L.7.1A

CCSS.L.9-10.1B

Which of the following are dependent clauses?

• While you were outside.
• If you don't study.
• When you get to the goal.
• all of the above

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CCSS.L.7.1A

CCSS.L.9-10.1B

What is the DEPENDENT clause in the sentence below?
While he eats lunch, he talks about what he will eat for dinner.

• While he eats lunch,
• he talks about what he will eat for dinner.

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CCSS.L.7.1A

CCSS.L.9-10.1B

What is the DEPENDENT clause in the following sentence?
Since fourth grade, she'd kept a running list of them and liked to reread it to see if she could get the stories to go further in her head. 

• She'd kept a running list of them and liked to reread it to see if she could get the stories to go further in her head.
• Since fourth grade,

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CCSS.L.7.1A

CCSS.L.9-10.1B

Identify whether the clause in blue below is dependent or independent.
Because she is holding the microphone so close to her face, each moment of contact sounds like a heavy blow.

• dependent clause
• independent clause

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CCSS.L.7.1A

CCSS.L.9-10.1B

Identify the INDEPENDENT clause in the following complex sentence:
Each moment of contact sounds like a heavy blow because she is holding the microphone so close to her face.

• Each moment of contact sounds like a heavy blow
• because she is holding the microphone so close to her face.

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CCSS.L.7.1A

CCSS.L.9-10.1B