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Which One Is Sentence

1. The document discusses different types of sentences: simple sentences containing a subject, verb, and complete thought; compound sentences containing two independent clauses joined by a coordinating conjunction; and complex sentences containing an independent clause and one or more dependent clauses joined by a subordinating conjunction. 2. It provides examples of each type of sentence and lists common coordinating conjunctions like "for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so" and subordinating conjunctions like "after, although, as, because, before, until, unless, whereas, while." 3. The document also discusses sentence structures like passive voice, use of articles, adjectives, adverbs, and provides examples

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Which One Is Sentence

1. The document discusses different types of sentences: simple sentences containing a subject, verb, and complete thought; compound sentences containing two independent clauses joined by a coordinating conjunction; and complex sentences containing an independent clause and one or more dependent clauses joined by a subordinating conjunction. 2. It provides examples of each type of sentence and lists common coordinating conjunctions like "for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so" and subordinating conjunctions like "after, although, as, because, before, until, unless, whereas, while." 3. The document also discusses sentence structures like passive voice, use of articles, adjectives, adverbs, and provides examples

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Which one is sentence

Which one is sentence/ clause?


• The girl who is wearing a dark blue jacket
• She is kind
• The several smart phone China
Sentence Structure
1. Simple Sentences
A simple sentence has the most basic elements that make it a
sentence: a subject, a verb, and a completed thought.
Examples of simple sentences include the following:
She waited for the train
Noun Phrase
• The girl
• The girl and his mother
• The beautiful girl
• The beautiful blue eyed girl
• The beautiful blue eyed girl from England
Verb Phrase
• is waiting
• has been waiting
• has waited
• Will wait
• Etc
Complement or object
• for the train
• for the music concert ticket
• for her friend in the cafe
2. Compound Sentences
A compound sentence refers to a sentence made
up of two independent clauses (or complete
sentences) connected to one another with
a coordinating conjunction. Coordinating
conjunctions are easy to remember if you think of
the words "FAN BOYS“: for, and, nor, but, or, yet,
so
Joe waited for the train, but the train was late.
3. Complex sentences
• A complex sentence is made up of an
independent clause and one or
more dependent clauses connected to it.
• Dependent clauses begin with subordinating
conjunctions. Below are some of the most
common subordinating conjunctions:
After they left on the bus, Mary and Samantha
realized that Joe was waiting at the train
station.
Dependent clauses begin with subordinating
conjunctions. Below are some of the most
common subordinating conjunctions:

after even though whenever


although if whereas
as since wherever
because though while
before unless when
until
Who People/person as subject
Whom People/person as object
which thing Subject/object
whose possessive subject/object
that general Subject/object

both … and not only …but also


either … or neither … nor
• Passive Sentence
be + verb3
Active: Marry helped the old lady.
Passive: The old lady was helped by Mary.
• Article: the, a, an (Before a noun)
The headset on my desk is belong to Rahma.
If you want to be a qualified midwife you have to
study hard.
• Adjective + Adverb
Jane is a smart students, she can respond the
problem quickly.
Example

1. _________ as only a second-rate impressionist


painter, Pisarro has recently received high
praise from many art critics.
(A) Being long regarded
(B) He was long regarded
(C) Long regarded
(D) Long was he regarded
2. associations with left-handedness
(sinister) tend to he negative, those relating to
right-handedness (dexterous) are positive.
(A) While (B) In spite of
(C) However (D) Indeed

3. _________ in the Atacama Desert.


(A) It never virtually rains (C). It rains never virtually
(B) It virtually never rains (D). Never virtually it rains
4. The llama and the camel, though native to very different
parts of the globe, _________ of the same family.
(A) are members (C) and are members
(B) but are members (D) they are members

5. So successful ________ that the projected dam was


abandoned so that the blue darter snail’s only remaining
habitat might be preserved.
(A) was the environmentalists’ lobbying
(B) the environmentalists’ lobbying was
(C) lobbied the environmentalists
(D) the environmentalists lobbied
Written Expression
1. Long before Europeans applied it to firearms, the Chinese they invented
A B C D
gun powder.
2. He was a man of extraordinary versatility and became both a lawyer
A B C
together with an engineer.
D
3. The harder you work, the more likely you are to qualify as doctor by the time you
A B C
are thirty.
D
4. In 1936, Jesse Owens proved that he could run more quick than any man alive.
A B C D
5. Some transplants work only if the replacement organ is took from a close
A B C D
relative of the patient
6. Zucchini is a vegetable who can be grown in many parts of the United States.
A B C D
7. Spanish, alike Italian, is largely based on Latin.
A B C D

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