Expresses a single complete thought and contains a subject and

a verb; for example, The child rode his bicycle to school.

A sentence that contains two independent clauses joined by a conjunction.

A type of sentence that contains an independent clause joined by one or more dependent clauses. A dependent clause is a part of a sentence that cannot stand alone because it does not express a complete thought.

For example, After the child rode his bicycle to school, he decided to stop for breakfast in the cafeteria.

A word, phrase, or clause that is improperly separated from the word it modifies/describes is called_______________.

For example, I found a gold woman’s necklace on the sidewalk.

_________________ is a phrase or clause that is not clearly and logically related to the word or words it modifies.

For example, Fixed last night, Abby could use her car.

Adjectives that appear in a sequence to modify the same noun are________.

For example: It was a bright, sunny day.

____________ means to share as much information as possible in as few words as possible.

________refers to words and phrases that surround another word and help to explain its meaning.

_____refers to letters that are added to a root word that change its meaning. For example, when the prefix dis- is added to the word interest, the word disinterest means the opposite of the root word interest.

______ is a reference book that provides the precise, or exact, meanings of words and phrases

____________an alphabetical list of words and phrases and their meanings usually found at the end of a textbook.

The sentence below has a spelling error.

In the laboratory, we set up the apparatus efficiently in aproximately 10 minutes.

Which word is NOT spelled correctly?

Based on the word parts, what is the meaning of universal in the sentence?

They want to know why some stories receive universal acceptance, and others do not.

Which revision of the sentence BEST expresses the ideas clearly and concisely?

The first thing that we need to take care of when we meet during club time for the Spanish Club is figuring out when we will have elections and also finding out who can be available to be working at the booth for the club fair at school.

Which sentence contains an error between the relationship of ideas?

Which sentence uses commas correctly?

Read the paragraph.

1 More than a hundred years ago, Europeans who wanted to drink coffee typically tied up coffee grounds in a little piece of cloth and boiled it in a pot of water. 2 Some grounds usually got through the cloth and mixed with the drink. 3 The coffee also tasted very bitter. 4 Melitta Bentz invented a much better system for brewing coffee that involved using a heavy paper filter and a pot with holes punched in it. 5 When she poured the boiling water through this contraption, the paper held the coffee grounds, water drained through, and the resulting beverage was a ton better.

Which edit should be made to maintain the formal style of the paragraph?