Sentence types & Roots

What is the most effective substitute for the sentence below?

Please bring your chromebook for the test tomorrow. Your chromebook should be charged.

• Leave as is

• The test will be on chromebooks, so bring it tomorrow. Please.

• Please bring your charged chromebook for the test tomorrow.

What is a complex sentence?

• Independent Clause + Independent Clause + Subordinating Conjunction

• Independent Clause + Dependent Clause + Subordinating Conjunction

• Dependent Clause + Dependent Clause + FANBOYS

• Independent Clause + Independent Clause + FANBOYS

Expand the simple sentence below to make a complex sentence by adding the phrase “after practicing my saxophone for hours”

I was ready to perform at the band concert.

• After practicing my saxophone for hours, however I was ready to perform at the band concert.

• I was ready to perform at the band concert while practicing my saxophone for hours.

• After practicing my saxophone for hours, I was ready to perform at the band concert.

• I was ready to practice my saxophone for house after performing at the band concert.

What is a simple sentence?

• Dependent Clause

• Independent Clause

• Independent Clause + Conjunction

What type of sentence is the following?

Mallory rode the school bus to her basketball game.

• Simple

• Compound

• Complex

• Compound Complex

Which is the BEST way to combine these two sentences?

He had seen Sarah at school and hoped to ask her to the movies. He started talking to her everyday at lunch.

• He saw Sarah at school and wanted to ask her out.

• He started talking to her at lunch because he hoped to ask her to the movies.

• Who is Sarah and why does he want to ask her to the movies?

• Because he had seen Sarah at school and hoped to ask her to the movies, he started talking to her everyday at lunch.

What type of sentence is the following?

Are you going to the movies with your sister and her friends?

• Simple

• Compound

• Complex

• Compound-Complex

What is the best way to combine the following two sentences without changing their meaning?

The test was unexpected. It caught the students off guard.

• It was unexpected.

• The unexpected test caught the students off guard.

• The test was hard and unexpected.

• The students were caught off guard.

What is the best way to combine the following two sentences without changing their meaning?

She is taking good care of her chromebook. It was given to her by the school.

• Her computer was given to her by the school.

• She is happy to have a chromebook and is taking extra good care of it.

• Her chromebook is the newest model and her school gave it to her.

• She is taking good care of her chromebook because it was given to her by the school.

Which choice’s sentence pattern is different from the others?

• Study for your test tonight, so you will make a good grade.

• While making a study guide helps, you should still study at home.

• When you study for a test, you will feel proud of your grade.

• You should study for tests because it will improve your grades.