WorksheetsPhrase or Clause?
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Are the bolded words a phrase or clause?
Although the terminology is evolving, a first-year high school or college student is traditionally classified as a freshman, and a second-year student is called a sophomore.
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Are the bolded words a phrase or clause?
By refusing to surrender her seat to a white passenger, African American activist Rosa Parks inspired a boycott of city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, and helped strengthen the civil rights movement.
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Are the bolded words a phrase or a clause?
Ironically, although approximately seventy-one percent of the earth is covered by water, thirty-three percent of its land area is desert.
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Are the bolded words a phrase or a clause?
The role of a prosecutor is to present a court case against an accused offender.
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Are the bolded words a phrase or a clause?
The appliance store's policy allows returns for thirty days; however, refunds require a receipt.
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Are the bolded words a phrase or a clause?
Although glaciers occupy only about ten percent of the earth's land surface, they contain about seventy-five percent of its fresh water.
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Are the bolded words a phrase or a clause?
Although chefs typically make carpaccio, a raw meat appetizer, from beef, they can also make it from venison, salmon, or tuna.
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Are the bolded words a phrase or a clause?
Humans are classified as omnivores because they generally consume both plants and animals, although some people are vegetarians or vegans.
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Q: Are the bolded words a phrase or a clause?
Pinky was at the table, a bowl of oatmeal in front of her, but she wasn't eating.
Phrase
Clause
Select the independent clause.
After Francis Scott Key witnessed an intense British attack on Fort McHenry during the War of 1812, he wrote the words to the "Star Spangled Banner", the national anthem of the United States of America.
"After Francis Scott Key witnessed an intense British attack on Fort McHenry during the War of 1812"
"he wrote the words to the "Star Spangled Banner", the national anthem of the United States of America"
Select the dependent clause.
Although a newborn copperhead is considerably smaller than an adult, its venom is equally toxic.
Although a newborn copperhead is considerably smaller than an adult
its venom is equally toxic
I could hear the ticking of the clock in the silence.
Phrase
Clause
Q. What is a dependent marker word?
A word that makes a clause incomplete.
A transition word
A word that makes a phrase incomplete.
A verb
Which word is an example of a dependent marker word?
is
moreover
despite
I
Q. Select the phrase in the following text.
The night before Thanksgiving, Mom started polishing the only silver we had.
Mom started polishing the only silver we had
The night before Thanksgiving
Q. What part of the sentence is the dependent clause?
By the time the paint was dry, Mrs. Glazov was tired.
Mrs. Glazov was tired
By the time the paint was dry
Q. What part of the sentence contains the phrase?
I worked all afternoon in our garage
cutting and sanding the boards with my father's tools
What makes a sentence a simple sentence?
It contains ONE independent clause.
It contains TWO independent clauses.
It contains a dependent clause.
It contains a dependent and an independent clause?
Which sentence is the simple sentence?
I put up the brackets and boards on the long wall while she slept.
She had tears in her eyes, but under the wrinkles and white hair I could see she had once been the pretty woman in the picture.
Q. Why is the following sentence a simple sentence?
Embarrassed, I went to put the books back in the box.
It contains one independent clause.
It contains a phrase and an independent clause.
It contains a dependent clause.
It contains a dependent clause with a phrase.
