Compound Sentences Practice

Is the following sentence a Simple Sentence or Compound Sentence?

I really wanted to eat a pumpkin muffin, so I drove to the store to buy one.

• Simple Sentence

• Compound Sentence
  

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1H

CCSS.L.3.1I

CCSS.L.4.2C

CCSS.L.5.1E

CCSS.L.7.1B

Is the following sentence a Simple sentence or a Compound sentence?

Judy and Grace ate an entire pizza during lunch.

• Simple Sentence

• Compound Sentence

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1J

CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.3.1I

CCSS.L.7.1B

A compound sentence is made up of what?

• One predendent clause and one independent clause

• Two independent clauses put together with a comma and a coordinating conjunction (FANBOY)

• One independent clause and one dependent clause

• Two dependent clauses and an independent clause put together with a subordinating conjunction

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1H

CCSS.L.3.1I

CCSS.L.4.2C

CCSS.L.5.1E

CCSS.L.7.1B

Which of these is NOT a FANBOY?

• so

• yet

• for

• after

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1G

CCSS.L.3.1H

CCSS.L.5.1A

CCSS.L.5.1E

What are the coordinating conjunctions?

• and, of , from

• or, from , in

• in , on , at

• or, but, and

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1G

CCSS.L.3.1H

CCSS.L.5.1A

CCSS.L.5.1E

What comes before the coordinating conjunction (FANBOY) in a compound sentence?

• a question mark

• a period

• the word "and"

• a comma

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1H

CCSS.L.3.1I

CCSS.L.4.2C

CCSS.L.5.1E

CCSS.L.7.1B

What is the other way you can join two independent clauses together besides the comma and coordinating conjunction (FANBOY)?

• reverse colon

• whole colon

• semi-colon

• anti-colon

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.2A

Which is a semi-colon?

• ;

• <

• "

• :

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.2A

What is one reason that we should use compound sentences

• To break up a lot of short choppy sentences with combining them into compound sentences

• To show off to the reader that we know how to write compound sentences so that they think we are smart

• To make our writing more varied and interesting by writing different kinds of sentences

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1H

CCSS.L.3.1I

CCSS.L.4.2C

CCSS.L.5.1E

CCSS.L.7.1B

Punctuate the following sentence correctly.

Javier prefers to play soccer with his team at school but his brother likes to play with his friends at the park.

• comma after team

• comma after but

• no comma needed

• comma after school

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1H

CCSS.L.3.1I

CCSS.L.4.2C

CCSS.L.5.1E

CCSS.L.7.1B