Sentence Types

Find all the dependent clauses. Check all that applies:

• The orange creamsicle was melting in the sun.

• My favorite type of pizza is pepperoni,

• because the sun was hidden

• since we won our first baseball game

Find all the independent clauses.

• The pink polka-dotted giraffe was my favorite stuffed animal.

• A hippo was splashing water all over the people watching him.

• the purple grape

• sitting on my chair

A simple sentence consists of:

• a single independent clause-subject &verb
• a single independent clause- a subject
• a single independent clause-verb
• a single independent clause- named Santa

A compound sentence has:

• two or more subjects & no verbs
• two or more verbs & no subjects
• two or more dependent clauses (subject and verb but is not a complete thought)
• two or more independent clauses- subject verb &subject verb (linked by a conjunction)

A complex sentence consists of: one independent clause (subject and verb that can stand alone) AND 

• one or more dependent clauses (subject and verb that does not express a complete thought)
• another independent clause (subject and verb that can stand alone)

An independent clause is a group of words that has a subject and a verb and that

• can not stand alone because it is in an incomplete thought
• can stand alone because it is a complete thought

Where should you add a comma in this sentence?

Before the holidays are over I want to go look at the lights

• after Before

• after over

• after want

• no comma is needed

A dependent clause is a group of words that has a subject and a verb and is

• not a complete thought
• is a complete thought

1 independent clause + 1 dependent clause

• Simple

• Compound

• Complex

• Compound-Complex

What starts the dependent clause?

• Coordinating Conjunctions

• Subordinating Conjunctions

• Articles

• Subject