2 Syntax Training - Teachers’ License by Yousef Alshorbaji

1- A run on sentence is :

• A)- a sentence which can be broken into two or more clauses

• B)- a sentence which carries a declarative statement

• C)- a sentence which ends with a full stop

• D)- a sentence which has conjunction

Answer explanation

Run on sentence be like

I was running a marathon she enjoyed it

جملة صحيحة لكن ناقصة علامات الترقيم ، ويمكن تقسيمها الى جملتين.

I was running a marathon, she enjoyed it.

2- Which sentence has the correct word order in general English statement?

• A)- Verb-Object-Subject-Adverb

• B)- Subject-Object-Verb-Adverb

• C)- Subject-Verb-Object-Adverb

• D)- Object-Subject-Verb-Adverb

3- ( Sara waited for the plane, but the plane was late.) The previous statement is classified as a/an .............sentence

• A) simple        

• B) complex  

•               

  C) compound

•                    

  D) compound-complex

Answer explanation

الجملة المركبة الكومباوند اذا جات في الجملة احد كلمات الاختصار

The acronym FANBOYS:

1-For     2-And        3-Nor        4-But            5-Or         6-Yet             7-So.

- (Reem ate breakfast while Noura went shopping.)

The previous statement is classified as a ............. sentence.

                        

• A)  simple

• B) complex 

• C) compound

• D) compound complex

Answer explanation

◾Key word < While = complex

5- (She ate dinner while her husband went to watching.)

The previous statement classified as __ sentence 

• A)  simple

• B) complex 

• C) compound

• D) compound complex

6- Previously. Meanwhile and afterwards are examples of ——————- connectives.

• A- listing

• B- casual

• C- temporal

• D- comparative

7- A sentence with two subordinate clauses and one independent clause is a sentence.

• A. simple

• B. complex  

• C. compound

• D. complex-compound

Answer explanation

complex في حالة وجود جملتين غير مستقلة وواحدة مستقلة فالجملة      

Complex-compound في حالة وجود جملة أو أكثر غير مستقلة وجملتين مستقلة فالجملة