Clauses and Awubis Words

An independent clause is a

• sentence fragment

• complete sentence

• incomplete thought

• subordinating conjunction

Select all the independent clauses.

• Hester Prynne accepted her fate

• Accepting her fate

• Arthur Dimmesdale lived the life of a liar

• Living the life of a liar

A dependent clause

• has a subject and verb but is not a complete thought.

• has a subject but no verb.

• has a verb but no subject.

• is the same as a complete sentence.

Select all the dependent clauses below

• Since he had evil intentions

• Chillingworth had evil intentions

• Since Chillingworth had evil intentions, readers don't really like him

• Because he had once loved Hester

Because he wrote a romance

• Independent clause

• Dependent clause

What is the subordinating conjunction in the following sentence?

Because he loved her once, Chillingworth might have had some good qualities.

• once

• might

• had

• because

When Pearl talked with her mother, she often worried and hurt Hester's feelings.

• Complete, complex sentence

• Dependent clause

• Incomplete sentence

• Compound sentence

Which complex sentence is puncuated correctly?

• Hester was lonely, because of her ignominy.

• Hester was lonely because of her ignominy.

Check all sentences that have correct structure.

• Because she had committed a moral crime, Hester was publicly punished.

• Hester was punished, because she committed a moral crime.

• Until Dimmesdale admitted his guilt, he was a miserable man.

• Dimmesdale was a miserable man until he admitted his guilt.

Select the sentence fragments (none have ending punctuation.)

• Because Hester never cried

• Hester seemed strong because she never cried

• Walking in the woods was a favorite pastime for Hester and Pearl

• After Dimmesdale admitted his guilt