Sentence Composing Quiz and Study Guide

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GRAMMAR REVIEW:

Simple Subject:   is the single noun or pronoun that drives the action of the sentence. 

Simple Predicate:  is the main verb (and possibly linking verb) that shows what the subject of the sentence does.

Complex Sentence:  a sentence that contains at least one independent clause and at least one dependent (or subordinate) clause.

Clause:  a group of words containing a subject and a predicate

Independent Clause: the group of words containing a subject and a predicate that expresses a complete thought.  It can stand alone as a sentence all by itself. 

Dependent (or Subordinate) Clause:  the group of words containing a subject and a predicate but does not express a complete thought and could not stand alone as a sentence.  It “depends” upon an independent clause.

Coordinating Conjunctions Bank:  F.A.N.B.O.Y.S.  for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so

Subordinating Conjunctions Bank: after, although, as, before, because, but, how, if, since, that, 

though, until, what, when, where, which, while, who, whom, whose, or why.