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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What type of sentence is: "Eat your dinner and do your homework." | Compound sentence example |
| What type of sentence is: "The person who lives in the house across the street painted his house." | Complex sentence example |
| A subject and predicate which cannot stand alone as a sentence is called what? | Dependent clause |
| A sentence that stands alone with a subject and a predicate is called what? | Independent clause |
| What type of sentence is: "I created a problem when my books were dropped on the stairs." | Complex sentence example |
| "Although the computer was broken" is an example of what? | An example of a subordinate or dependent clause |
| An independent clause and a dependent clause make what type of sentence? | Complex sentence |
| Two independent clauses joined by a coordinate conjunction is called what? | Compound sentence |
| Whate type of sentence is: "Mark said he forgot his homework, and he asked if he could make it up later." | Compound-complex because there is an understood "that" in front of "he forgot his homework" which makes that part of the sentence into a subordinate clause, and two independent clauses + one subordinate clause = compound-complex |
| What type of sentence is: "Although he was very intelligent, Mario could not figure out how to solve the Rubik's Cube." | Complex because the first clause is subordinate, whereas the rest of the sentence is independent. |
| What type of sentence is: "My favorite sport to watch in the fall is football, so I clear my schedule every Sunday to watch the Browns." | Compound because there are two independent clauses. |
| What type of sentence is: "The circus, with its crazy clowns and brave lion tamers, is in town this week." | Simple because there is only one subject-verb pair - don't let its length fool you. |
| What type of sentence is: "Joan said she loves shopping, but she doesn't have enough money to do it as often as she would like." | Compound-complex because "that" is understood after "said" which makes two independent clauses and two dependent or subordinate clauses. |
| What type of sentence is: "When he saw the price of the car, he started laughing and walked away." | Complex because there is one independent clause and one dependent or subordinate clause. |
| What type of sentence is: "In the middle of the night, a loud noise from my neighbor's house woke me up." | Simple - the first part of the sentence is a series of prepositional phrases...don't be tricked into thinking it is a subordinate clause...there's no verb. |
| What type of sentence is: "The Cleveland Indians, who have rebuilt themselves in the off season, have lost their home opener this year." | Complex - Don't forget about the subordinate clause "who have rebuilt . . . " modifying the subject of the independent clause "Cleveland Indians." Subordinate + Independent = Complex. |
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