If you are struggling with grammar, please do these 15 practice sentences. Use the same 15 sentences for both sections One and Two. Answers will be provided upon request.
Section One: Parts of speech Practice:
Focus particularly on identifying the articles, prepositions and conjunctions:
Label the conjunctions either subordinate or coordinate:
If you’ve done all of the above, try labeling the rest of the parts of speech.
Section Two: Clauses and Kind of Sentence Practice:
Then see if you can find the subject and verb combinations and their clauses.
Underline main clauses.
Put brackets around (subordinate clauses).
Can you figure out what kind of sentence each one is?
1. The boy ate a pie while the man waited for his dinner.
2. I went to the hospital because I was sick.
3. The teacher gave a quiz and assigned reading.
4. The boy watched TV but missed the best show.
5. The cat was hungry, so I poured a bowl of milk.
6. The emperor Nero fiddled while Rome burned.
7. The dogs barked until the cows came home.
8. A blue and grey uniform is an option.
9. The book has ten chapters but it is easy to read.
10. I wrote her a letter, yet she didn’t answer me.
11. A pink or a blue stone is a good choice.
12. My pants were loose so I wore a belt.
13. An apple is good but a plum is tastier.
14. The girls studied, yet she still failed the test.
15. Neither the boy nor the girl had run a race.
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