Week 5 Staff Meeting

What is the definition of a simple sentence?

• A subject and a verb.

• A question and an answer.

• A capital letter and a full stop.

• Two independent clauses.

Which of these sentences uses an adjective?

• The cat is sleeping.

• She ran quickly.

• They played outside.

• The big tree swayed in the wind.

What is the preposition in this sentence?

The ball is under the table.

• ball

• table

• The

• under

What is the subject in this sentence?

The car is parked behind the shed.

• car

• parked

• shed

• behind

Which sentence does NOT include a stative verb?

• Mary frightened her sister when she jumped out of the closet.

• She felt the cool air on her skin.

• She yelled and screamed at the top of her lungs.

• I remember the formula.

Which sentence does NOT contain an appositive?

• The star-sucker pygmy, the smallest octopus in the world, is found in fairly shallow waters in the western Pacific.

• The chief surgeon, an expert in organ transplant procedures, took her nephew on a hospital tour.

• Patty Mills, an Australian professional basketball player, was the country's first Indigenous flag bearer at an Olympic games.

• My brother Luke, who lives in Melbourne, is coming home for Christmas.

What is nominalisation?

• A term used to describe the process of converting a verb or adjective into a noun.

• The act of using proper nouns in writing.

• The repetition of similar sounding words at the beginning of consecutive sentences.

• The practice of using exaggerated or hyperbolic language to create emphasis in writing.

Which one of these sentences is a correctly structured complex sentence?

• The dog barked loudly and scared away the birds.

• Walking along the beach, I found a message in a bottle.

• Despite his exhaustion, he continued running towards the finish line.

• My favourite colour is blue, but sometimes I also like green.

What is a complex sentence?

• A sentence that is difficult to understand.

• A sentence with a main clause and a subordinate clause.

• Two simple sentences that have been combined.

• A sentence with two main/independent clauses.

In a complex sentence, what distinguishes a subordinate clause from a main clause?

• It can stand alone as a sentence.

• It is always at the beginning of a sentence.

• It provides additional information and cannot stand alone.

• It does not contain a verb.