GRAMMAR POST TEST STUDY GUIDE

200 Point Grammar Post-Test on Tuesday 11/15/16

GRAMMAR POST TEST STUDY GUIDE

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

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



Simple Sentence: a sentence that contains only one subject and one predicate.

Example: The meat, dry-cured for the feeding of the dogs, hung in the smoke-house.

Compound Sentence: A compound sentence is a sentence that contains more than one subject or predicate.

Example:  The tiny dragon lost interest in Eragon and awkwardly explored the room.

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

Example:  After the other children had disappeared, she remained at her desk, quiet and thoughtful.



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.  They always begin with a subordinating conjunction.



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

Subordinating Conjunctions Bank (used in front of subordinate/dependent clauses): after, although, as, before, because, but, how, if, since, that, though, until, what, when, where, which, while, who, whom, whose, or why.