Selected Rsponse Questions

Selective Response Questions

Analyze simple, compound, complex, and

compound-complex sentences correctly,

punctuates properly,

and identify fragments and run-ons.

Knowledge and Understanding:

True or False

1. A simple sentence has a subject, a verb, and a completed thought.

2. A compound sentence refers to a sentence made up of two dependent clauses connected to one another with a conjunction.

3. A sentence fragment is not an independent clause.

Analysis:

Read the sentences below and pick the best description of the part of each sentence.

1.Greg works in a bank.

a. Greg is the subject and work is the adjective
b. Greg is the verb and banks is the noun
c. Greg is the subject and bank is the verb
d. Greg is the subject and work is the verb

2. The teacher sings and the students clap.

a. The teacher sings is a dependent clause connected the students clap a independent clause by the adjective and.
b. The teacher sings is the coordinating conjunction that connects and to the independent clause the students clap.
c. The teacher sings is a independent clause connected by and a coordinating conjunction to the other independent clause the students clap.

3. After the rain stops

a. After is the verb and rain is the noun.
b. Rain is the subject and stops is the verb.
c. After is the subject and stops is the verb.

Classification:

Choose the sentence example that matches the sentence type.

1.Simple Sentences:

a. Some students like to study in the mornings
b. The Students are studying because they have a test tomorrow.
c. Since you asked.
d. Juan and Maria went to the movies after they finished studying.

2. Compound Sentences:

a. John, being a friendly computer salesman and baseball fan.
b. Juan and Arturo play football every afternoon.
c. Alejandro played football, so Maria went shopping.
d. The teacher returned the homework after she noticed the error.

3. Sentence Fragments:

a. Driving in the city during the evening rush hour.
b. Alicia goes to the library and studies every day.
c. I tried to speak Spanish, and my friend tried to speak English.
d. When he handed in his homework, he forgot to give the teacher the last page.