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WorksheetsGrammar Basics - Sentences
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 40mins
Is the following phrase a dependent or independent clause?
The boys won the baseball game.
Dependent
Independent
Is the following phrase a dependent or independent clause?
As she called from the window.
Dependent
Independent
Is the following sentence a dependent or independent clause?
Jane washed her dog in the bath tub.
Dependent
Independent
Is the following sentence a dependent or independent clause?
Because she was friendly.
Dependent
Independent
What part of this sentence is a dependent clause?
"If you want light to come into your life, you need to stand where it is shining."
- Guy Finley
If you want light to come into your life
into your life
you need to stand where it is shining
where it is shining
Which part of this sentence is an independent clause?
"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door."
- Milton Berle
If opportunity doesn't knock
build a door
If opportunity
doesn't knock
Which part of this sentence is a dependent clause?
"No one is perfect - that's why pencils have erasers."
- Wolfgang Riebe
No one is perfect
No one
That's why pencils have erasers
have erasers
What part of this sentence is an independent clause?
"Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results."
- Willie Nelson
with positive ones
Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones
You'll start having positive results
positive results
What is a simple sentence?
Contains one independent clause
Contains two or more independent clauses
Contains one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses
Contains two or more independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses
What is a complex sentence?
Contains one independent clause
Contains two or more independent clauses
Contains one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses
Contains two or more independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses
What is a compound sentence?
Contains one independent clause
Contains two or more independent clauses
Contains one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses
Contains two or more independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses
What is a compound complex sentence?
Contains one independent clause
Contains two or more independent clauses
Contains one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses
Contains two or more independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses
What type of sentence is this?
"I've failed over and over again in my life, and that is why I succeed."
- Michael Jordan
Simple
Compound
Complex
Compound-complex
What type of sentence is this?
"If you're neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor."
- Desmond Tutu
Simple
Compound
Complex
Compound-complex
What type of sentence is this?
"Success is making the people who believed in you look brilliant."
- Dharmesh Shah
Simple
Compound
Complex
Compound-complex
What type of sentence is this?
"Do you want to fit in, or do you want to embark on the lonely pursuit of greatness?"
- Ray Allen
Simple
Compound
Complex
Compound-complex
What type of sentence is this?
"Today is the first day of the rest of your life."
- Charles Dederich
Simple
Compound
Complex
Compound-complex
What type of sentence is this?
"By the end of high school, I was not, of course, an educated man, but I knew how to try and become one."
- Clifton Fadiman
Simple
Compound
Complex
Compound-complex
What type of sentence is this?
"Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do."
- Oprah Winfrey
Simple
Compound
Complex
Compound-complex
What type of sentence is this?
"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; we must not only plan, but also believe."
- Oprah Winfrey
Simple
Compound
Complex
Compound-complex
