Compound Sentences Quiz

• If you only have a verb/noun, you can't have a clause
• Dependent clauses start with dependent words
• Dependent clauses basically cripple a clause so that it needs another clause to survive
• Dependent clauses need the support of another independent clause(s) in order to stand up (and express a complete thought) again
• Dependent words cripple independent clauses so that they can't stand up by themselves.
• Some Dependent Words ( a.k.a. subordinationg conjunctions) : although, though, if, unless, because, where, since, while, whereas, whether, even thought, so that.
• Fragments are incomplete thoughts (words, phrases, dependent clauses) that are pretending to be sentences
• Fragments are not "sentences that are too short" - they're incomplete thoughts posing as complete sentences
• run ons are incorrectly combined not "sentences that are too long"
• Way #1 to form a compound sentence: ;
• Way #2 to form a compound sentence: ,+ coordinating conjunction(FANBOYS)
• Way #3 to form a compound sentence: ; + conjunctive adverb + ,
• Some Conjunctive adverbs are Consequently, Moreover, Further, Nevertheless, Furthermore, Then, However, Therefore, Indeed, Thus.
• FANBOYS

  For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So
• Compound Sentence

  Two or more independent clauses that are combined correctly into one sentence
• Run ons


  two or more clauses that are not combined correctly
• Fragment


  a word or group of words(posting as a sentence with a capital and ending punctuation) that do not express a complete thought
• Dependent Clause


  a clause that does not express a complete thought all by itself or a clause that cannot stand on it's own
• Independent Clause


  a clause that expresses a complete thought all by itself or a clause that can stand on its own
• Common Prepositions

  after, against, by, both, during, for, from, in, on, to, up, with
• Prepositional Phrase


  a group of words that shows how one noun is related to another noun or a phrase that begins with a preposition
• Phrase


  a group of words that has either a noun or a verb (but not both)
• Sentence


  A clause(or a group of clause and phrases) that expresses a complete thought
• Clause


  When a subject and a verb get together
• Verb


  What the subject is doing or being - action or state of being
• Subject


  Who or what a clause is about (always a noun)