Sentences and Clauses

What is a group of words that has a subject and a predicate and expresses a complete thought?

• fragment

• run-on

• sentence

• dependent clause

What type of sentence is made up of one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses?

• compound

• simple

• complex

• run-on

What kind of sentence has one complete subject and one complete predicate?

• simple

• compound

• complex

• fragment

What has a subject and predicate and can stand alone as a sentence?

• main clause

• dependent clause

• fragment

• phrase

What is another name for a main clause?

• declarative clause

• dependent clause

• independent clause

• simple sentence

What is a group of words that has a subject and predicate but does not express a complete thought and cannot stand alone as a sentence?

• declarative clause

• fragment

• simple sentence

• dependent clause

What names all the words that name whom or what the sentence is about?

• dependent clause

• compound noun

• complete predicate

• complete subject

Select the sentence with the dependent clause.

• Although it was late, the man went to the store.

• The man went to the store.

• The angry man went quickly to the farmers market.

• no pizza

A clause is

• A group of words that is used as a single part of speech. It does not contain BOTH a subject and a verb.

• A group of words that contains both a subject and a verb. It can stand alone or with another clause.

• a word that takes the place of a noun.

• a word that is the action or state of being in the sentence.

Aaron has an unconventional swing, but he manages to drive the ball farther than some professional golfers.

• simple

• compound

• complex

• compound-complex