WorksheetsAWUBIS PRACTICE
Total questions: 23
Worksheet time: 23mins
An independent clause is a
sentence fragment
complete sentence
incomplete thought
subordinating conjunction
Select all the independent clauses.
Hester Prynne accepted her fate
Accepting her fate
Arthur Dimmesdale lived the life of a liar
Living the life of a liar
A dependent clause
has a subject and verb but is not a complete thought.
has a subject but no verb.
has a verb but no subject.
is the same as a complete sentence.
Select all the dependent clauses below
Since he had evil intentions
Chillingworth had evil intentions
Since Chillingworth had evil intentions, readers don't really like him
Because he had once loved Hester
Because he wrote a romance
Independent clause
Dependent clause
What is the subordinating conjunction in the following sentence?
Because he loved her once, Chillingworth might have had some good qualities.
once
might
had
because
When Pearl talked with her mother, she often worried and hurt Hester's feelings.
Complete, complex sentence
Dependent clause
Incomplete sentence
Compound sentence
Which complex sentence is puncuated correctly?
Hester was lonely, because of her ignominy.
Hester was lonely because of her ignominy.
Check all sentences that have correct structure.
Because she had committed a moral crime, Hester was publicly punished.
Hester was punished, because she committed a moral crime.
Until Dimmesdale admitted his guilt, he was a miserable man.
Dimmesdale was a miserable man until he admitted his guilt.
Select the sentence fragments (none have ending punctuation.)
Because Hester never cried
Hester seemed strong because she never cried
Walking in the woods was a favorite pastime for Hester and Pearl
After Dimmesdale admitted his guilt
Adding what would make this a compound sentence?
"Sally likes to run"
a coordinating conjunction and an independent clause
a subordinating conjunction
nothing
a comma
Make this sentence a compound sentence:
"Mark went to the park yesterday..."
Select the answer option that would make this sentence a compound sentence:
"Jack likes to swim early in the mornings..."
, and he likes to jog sometimes too!
before he gets his coffee.
because he enjoys swimming when the sun is out.
and he likes to jog sometimes too!
FANBOYS are which type of conjunction?
Coordinating
Subordinating
AWUBIS is what type of conjunction?
Coordinating
Subordinating
What USUALLY and ALMOST ALWAYS goes before a coordinating conjunction in a compound sentence?
another conjunction
a comma
quotation marks
parenthesis
What two things does a simple/ complete sentence/ independent clause have?
a subject (noun) and predicate (verb)
only a subject (noun)
only the predicate (verb)
a conjunction and a subject (noun)
What is the pronoun in this compound sentence?:
"Jason likes to run, and he likes to dance".
Jason
likes
dance
he
What is this sentence missing?:
"Anna likes to eat apples, but she also likes oranges".
another coordinating conjunction
a semicolon
nothing
a predicate (verb)
What is this complex sentence missing?:
"Before she went to the grocery store she went to the mall"
a comma after the word before
a comma after store
a comma after grocery
a question mark at the end of mall
Which of the following is a subordinating conjunction?
And
Before
Nor
So
Is this sentence correct?:
"While she waited for her car to be repaired, she went and got a sandwich."
yes
no
Is this sentence correct?:
"She went to the store because she needed to get ketchup."
yes
no
