Exploring Compound-Complex Sentences

The video tutorial reviews sentence diagramming, focusing on identifying sentence types, clauses, and subject-predicate pairings. It emphasizes a step-by-step approach to diagramming, using examples like 'a smiling monkey laughing at the frigid penguin backed out the door.' The teacher explains participial phrases, prepositional phrases, and relational words, engaging students with humor and pop culture references. The lesson aims to make complex sentence structures manageable by breaking them down into simpler parts.

What is the first step in breaking down a complex sentence?

• Find the prepositional phrases

• Locate the direct objects

• Identify the conjunctions

• Determine the type of sentence

How many clauses were identified in the sentence discussed?

• Four

• Three

• Two

• One

What is the subject in the first clause 'A smiling monkey laughing at The Frigid penguin backed out the door'?

• Monkey

• Penguin

• Door

• Smiling

What is the role of 'smiling' in the sentence?

• Verb

• Adjective

• Noun

• Adverb

What type of phrase is 'laughing at The Frigid penguin'?

• Prepositional phrase

• Participial phrase

• Noun phrase

• Adverbial phrase

What is the object of the prepositional phrase in 'laughing at The Frigid penguin'?

• Frigid

• Laughing

• Penguin

• At

Which word indicates a relational word in the phrase 'at The Frigid penguin'?

• At

• Penguin

• Frigid

• The

What is the difference between a prepositional phrase and an appositive?

• A prepositional phrase is always at the end of a sentence

• An appositive starts with a verb

• A prepositional phrase starts with a relational word

• An appositive is always a direct object

What was the suggested theme song for the activity?

• Baby Got Back

• The A Team

• Happy Feet

• Dumbo

What is the subject in the second clause 'The penguin cried'?

• Cried

• Clause

• The

• Penguin