Grammar Test Study Guide

Study Guide Sentence Structure

1. What is a phrase?

2. What is a clause?

3. Create an analogy between independent and dependent clauses.

4. What two parts of speech must be present in all clauses?

5. Along with those two parts of speech, what also must be present in a dependent clause?

6. What is a comma splice?

7. Write an example of a comma splice.

8. What are dependent clause indicators?

9. Give five examples of dependent clause indicators. (DCIs)

10. Write two examples of a compound sentence.

11. What are two ways to punctuate compound sentences? Please show in a formula.

12. Write two examples of a complex sentence.

13. What are two ways to punctuate complex sentences? Please show in a formula.

14. For each sentence structure, write how many independent and dependent clauses are used.

a. Simple- b. Compound- c. Complex- d. Compound/Complex-

15. Write an example of a compound- complex sentence.

16. Why is it important to use a variety of sentence structure in your writing?

17. What are the three reasons dashes are used for?

18. What are two ways that semi-colons are used?