ACT Boot Camp Week 1

Use coordinating conjuctions with a _______ when joining two independent clauses to make a compound sentence.

When the correlative conjunction joins two independent clauses use a _______ after the first clause. *Remeber parallel structure: if there is a complete clause after the first hold, there must be a complete clause after the second half.

Conjunctive adverbs join...

• two independent clauses

• two dependent clauses

• all of the above

• subject and verb

Use a ______ between two related sentences (independent clauses) that are not joined by a _______.

• semicolon; conjuction

• comma; subordinating conjuction

• period; conjuction

• colon; subordinating conjuction

When a dependent clause comes before the independent clause in a sentence, place a ________ after the clause. No ________ is needed when the dependent clause comes after the independent

A group of words with a subject and a predicate that CANNOT stand on its own as a complete thought.

• dependent

• independent

A group fo words with a subject and a predicate that can stand alone as a complete thought.

• dependent

• independent

What is a subject?

• None of the above

• A thing

• What the subject is (linking verb) or does

• Who or what (noun or pronoun) the sentence is about

What is an predicate?

• A verb

• What the subject is (linking verb) or does (action verb)

• Who or what (noun or pronoun) the sentence is about

• A linking verb

A sentence that consists of 1 independent clause

• Simple

• Compound

• Complex

• Compound-Complex