Quiz 2: Sentence Structure

The _______________ (person, animal, object or place) is what the sentence is about.

A ____________ tells us what the subject is or does (actions, main verbs).

Cotopaxi is the name of the second highest Ecuadorian snow capped mountain.

What type of sentence is this?

• Compound-Complex

• Complex

• Compound

• Simple

Decide whether the next information is: a subject, a predicate, a simple sentence.

1) Tom and Jerry

• Subject

• Predicate

• Simple Sentence

2) The boss is a leader.

• Subject

• Predicate

• Simple Sentence

3) ... teaches English on Mondays and Wednesdays.

• Subject

• Predicate

• Simple Present

4) watched all the Harry Potter movies.

• Subject

• Predicate

• Simple Sentence

5) My cat, Pelusa.

• Subject

• Predicate

• Simple Present

Select all the definitions of an "Independent Clause".

• It is a simple sentence.

• It makes complete sense because it has a subject, a main verb and a complement.

• It needs more information to have complete sense.

Choose all the definitions of a "Dependent Clause".

• It makes complete sense because it has a subject, a main verb and a complement.

• It is a phrase that needs more information to make sense.

• It contains the words "while" or "when".