Sentence Structure

1. Nouns can act in a sentence as:

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Object of the preposition
Direct object
All of the above
Simple subject

2. When you listen carefully to what the teacher says, you will get a high grade.

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Read the sentence and identify the subordinating clause.

When you listen carefully to what the teacher said
When you listen
You listen carefully
What the teacher says

3. Either Owen or Henry will present <their> report first.

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Determine the correct pronoun to be used instead of the word within . If a sentence is already correct, choose C.

Them
His
C
It

4. The students had a strategy for the basketball game during practice, so they assigned each player a position.

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identify sentence structure as simple (S), compound (Cd), complex (Cx), compound -complex (CC)

Cd
Cx
CC
S

5. Interjections:

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First 3 sentences:
1. Wow! What a beautiful day!
2. Oh! You startled me.
3. Well, I’m not certain.

Last 3 sentences:
4. There must be, oh my, at least one hundred spiders.
5. We enjoyed the game, but, gee, it was challenging.
6. We won the game! Awesome!

The last 3 sentences because those are real interjections
All sentences because it doesn’t matter
In all sentences because interjections interrupt the sentence and are set off by commas.
In the sentences the interjections are only in the first 3 sentences because interjections are only used at the start of a sentence

6. Adjectives:

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Choose the right answer that describes the word in question correctly.

Adjectives modify nouns
to modify as a word that means to describe or to make its meaning more definite by telling what kind, which one, or how much/may.
An adjective is a word or word group (phrase or clause) that is used to modify a noun or pronoun.
All of the above

7. Alexander’s young sons were killed_____his generals wanted to divide the kingdom among themselves.

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Find the correct conjunction

Although
But
So
And

8. Whatever you choose to watch will be a great choice.

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Identify sentence structure as simple (S), compound (Cd), complex (Cx), compound -complex (CC)

CC
S
Cd
Cx

9. Adverbs:

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Adverbs make verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs more specific by modifying them. Like nouns and adjectives, they may be a word or word group (including a phrase or clause).
All of the above
It is best to identify words as adverbs by what question they answer and what word or word group they modify. Most often than not adverbs end with the suffix –ly.
They answer the questions Where? When? How? Why? To What extent? Under what circumstances/conditions?

10. Please do not tell your friends how the story ends.

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