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Grammar Basics - Sentences

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 40mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Is the following phrase a dependent or independent clause?

The boys won the baseball game.

a)

Dependent

b)

Independent

2.

Is the following phrase a dependent or independent clause?

As she called from the window.

a)

Dependent

b)

Independent

3.

Is the following sentence a dependent or independent clause?

Jane washed her dog in the bath tub.

a)

Dependent

b)

Independent

4.

Is the following sentence a dependent or independent clause?

Because she was friendly.

a)

Dependent

b)

Independent

5.

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

a)

If you want light to come into your life

b)

into your life

c)

you need to stand where it is shining

d)

where it is shining

6.

Which part of this sentence is an independent clause?

"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door."

- Milton Berle

a)

If opportunity doesn't knock

b)

build a door

c)

If opportunity

d)

doesn't knock

7.

Which part of this sentence is a dependent clause?

"No one is perfect - that's why pencils have erasers."

- Wolfgang Riebe

a)

No one is perfect

b)

No one

c)

That's why pencils have erasers

d)

have erasers

8.

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

a)

with positive ones

b)

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones

c)

You'll start having positive results

d)

positive results

9.

What is a simple sentence?

a)

Contains one independent clause

b)

Contains two or more independent clauses

c)

Contains one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses

d)

Contains two or more independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses

10.

What is a complex sentence?

a)

Contains one independent clause

b)

Contains two or more independent clauses

c)

Contains one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses

d)

Contains two or more independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses

11.

What is a compound sentence?

a)

Contains one independent clause

b)

Contains two or more independent clauses

c)

Contains one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses

d)

Contains two or more independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses

12.

What is a compound complex sentence?

a)

Contains one independent clause

b)

Contains two or more independent clauses

c)

Contains one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses

d)

Contains two or more independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses

13.

What type of sentence is this?

"I've failed over and over again in my life, and that is why I succeed."

- Michael Jordan

a)

Simple

b)

Compound

c)

Complex

d)

Compound-complex

14.

What type of sentence is this?

"If you're neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor."

- Desmond Tutu

a)

Simple

b)

Compound

c)

Complex

d)

Compound-complex

15.

What type of sentence is this?

"Success is making the people who believed in you look brilliant."

- Dharmesh Shah

a)

Simple

b)

Compound

c)

Complex

d)

Compound-complex

16.

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

a)

Simple

b)

Compound

c)

Complex

d)

Compound-complex

17.

What type of sentence is this?

"Today is the first day of the rest of your life."

- Charles Dederich

a)

Simple

b)

Compound

c)

Complex

d)

Compound-complex

18.

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

a)

Simple

b)

Compound

c)

Complex

d)

Compound-complex

19.

What type of sentence is this?

"Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do."

- Oprah Winfrey

a)

Simple

b)

Compound

c)

Complex

d)

Compound-complex

20.

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

a)

Simple

b)

Compound

c)

Complex

d)

Compound-complex