Sentence Types

What type of sentence is made of one independent clause?

• compound

• compound-complex

• complex

• simple

What is a phrase?

• a group of words that contains a subject or a predicate, but not both

• a group of words with both a subject and a predicate

• a group of words that is always a sentence

• a groups of words that is sometimes a sentence

What is a clause?

• a group of words that contains a subject and a predicate

• a group of words that contains a subject or a predicate

• the person who lives at the North Pole

• always is a sentence

What type of sentence contains two independent clauses?

• simple

• compound

• complex

• compound-complex

What type of sentence contains an independent clause and a dependent clause?

• compound-complex

• simple

• compound

• complex

What type of sentence contains two independent clauses AND a dependent clause

• complex

• compound

• compound-complex

• simple

A(n) ________ clause can’t stand on its own as a sentence.

• independent

• dependent

• simple

• phrase

True or False: When a dependent clause comes at the start of a complex sentence, you need to put a comma after it.

• true

• false

• maybe

• why bother with punctuation

How do you create a complex sentence?

• by linking two dependent clauses

• by linking two independent clauses

• by linking an independent clause with a dependent clause

• by never adding commas to sentences

Which of the following is an independent clause?

• After the rain,

• Until the bus came.

• I don’t like snakes.

• While we waited,