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• 10 Vocabulary Q’s• 5 Greek &Latin Root Q’s• 15 Core Curriculum Vocab• 5 close read informational text Qs• 5 Figurative Language and Story Elements• 30 Literature Q’s (Beat, Summer, Heart,Outsiders
&Angry)
Phrase /Clause• A clause has a subject and a verb• A phrase doesn’t.
Clauses/Phrases
Copy each of the following examples and determine whether the underlined words are a clause or a phrase. If the underlined portion is a clause, underline the subject once and the predicate twice.
1. Bradley, my youngest brother, is a gymnast at Penn State.
2. He competes on the pommel horse and the parallel bars and is ranked thirteenth in the country.
3. When he visits, Bradley spends time with me at school and goes on the Disney Land trip with me.
4. Even though I am excited that he will be graduating this May, I will miss his annual visits to Las Vegas.
Independent/ Dependant Clauses
• Independent clauses are complete sentences
• Dependant Clauses leave you hanging• Dependant clauses usually have subordinating conjunctions• Examples : after, although, as, because, before, even
though, if, once, rather than, since, so that, than, that, though, unless, until, when, whenever, where, whenever, while…
Ind. & Dep.Clauses• Copy the following and label them as
independent or dependant.
• Because I said so• She sat• Although Jake and Easton know the school rules• After she broke up with Mike• Jon wept profusely
Sentences • A simple sentence has one independent
clause• A compound sentence has two independent
clauses (usually connected by a ,fanboy)• A complex sentence has one dependent and
one independent clause (If the dep. Clause comes first there is a comma. If the dependent clause is last= no comma)
• A Compound/ complex sentence has two independent clauses and a dependent clause
• Copy & label the following sentences:• Bubba and Bertha went to the movies and ate popcorn
Monday night.• Even though the football game was on, Bertha talked
him into watching a Hugh Grant movie.• Bubba decided to go with her so that he wouldn’t end
up in trouble.• They made plans to meet after the movie.• As they were walking to the theater, Bubba and Bertha
ran into Wiley and Myrtle Ann, but they did not have time to talk.
Sentence IdentificationCopy the following sentences and determine if they are simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex. Underline all independent clauses once, all dependent clauses twice; circle all subordinating conjunctions and box all coordinating conjunctions.
1. Randy, the older of my two brothers, is an aeronautical engineer.
2. Because he makes more money than me, he no longer allows me to buy dinner.
3. Even though I am much older, he hit me with the check, and I sat helpless to do anything.
4. For the last twenty years, I have paid for dinner, and he never complained.
What do I study for punctuation?
•Comma Flipbooks•Comma Worksheets
Commas 1
Copy each of the following sentences, circle the sentence that is punctuated correctly, and use editing marks to fix the incorrect sentences.
1. Bubba asked Mabel Mary out, after she broke up with Wiley.
2. Mabel Mary was flattered but she was not ready to start dating.
3. When she rejected his offer for dinner, Bubba went home and sulked.
4. Because Leroy and Bubba do not get along Leroy made fun of Bubba.
Copy each of the following sentences, circle the sentence that is punctuated correctly, and use editing marks to fix the incorrect sentences.
1. When she was a baby Nikki lived on a farm.
2. Her parents bought a house located at 1747 Elmwood Avenue, Oshkosk, WI 54901.
3. She also lived at 1278 Christy, Lane, Las Vegas, Nevada.
4. On December 15 1988 she moved to Henderson, Nevada.
Punctuation 2
Acc. Vocabulary (1-4)Of the forty words, study these twenty :