Complex Sentences

What is the DEPENDENT clause in the sentence below?
While he eats lunch, he talks about what he will eat for dinner.

• While he eats lunch,

• he talks about what he will eat for dinner.

Tags

CCSS.L.7.1A

CCSS.L.9-10.1B

What is the DEPENDENT clause in the following sentence?
Since fourth grade, she'd kept a running list of them and liked to reread it to see if she could get the stories to go further in her head. 

• She'd kept a running list of them and liked to reread it to see if she could get the stories to go further in her head.

• Since fourth grade,

Tags

CCSS.L.7.1A

CCSS.L.9-10.1B

Identify whether the clause in blue below is dependent or independent.
Because she is holding the microphone so close to her face, each moment of contact sounds like a heavy blow.

• dependent clause

• independent clause

Tags

CCSS.L.7.1A

CCSS.L.9-10.1B

Identify the DEPENDENT clause in the following sentence:
You shouldn't lie to yourself either if you don't lie to anyone else in the world.

• You shouldn't lie to yourself either

• You shouldn't lie to yourself either if

• if you don't lie to anyone else in the world.

• you don't lie to anyone else in the world.

Tags

CCSS.L.7.1A

CCSS.L.9-10.1B

We have to go to bed when the clock chimes 10:00.

• compound

• complex

• simple

Tags

CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.3.1H

CCSS.L.3.1I

CCSS.L.4.2C

CCSS.L.5.1E

James and Eve rode their bicycles after they ate lunch.

• compound

• complex

• simple

Tags

CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.3.1H

CCSS.L.3.1I

CCSS.L.4.2C

CCSS.L.5.1E

A dependent clause

• has a subject and a predicate but is not a complete thought

• can be a sentence on its own

• has a subject and a predicate and is a complete thought

• makes a sentence compound

Tags

CCSS.L.7.1A

CCSS.L.9-10.1B

because she studied hard

• This is an independent clause.

• This is a dependent clause.

Tags

CCSS.L.7.1A

CCSS.L.9-10.1B

A complex sentence is made of

• two independent clauses.

• an independent clause and a dependent clause

• two dependent clauses

• one independent clause

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1J

CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.3.1H

CCSS.L.3.1I

CCSS.L.5.1E

I was able to get my worked checked since the bus was early today.

What is the subordinate conjunction in this sentence?

• was

• since

• able

• to

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1G

CCSS.L.3.1H

CCSS.L.5.1A

CCSS.L.5.1E