Advanced English 10 Semester One Grammar Review

That I can hear the waves crashing in

Find the noun clause in the following sentence: I like that I can hear the waves crashing in.

What was said at the conference

Find the noun clause in the following sentence: What was said at the conference was heated.

Error: hang outs It's wrong because the other three items in the list were all -ing verbs, but "hang outs" is a noun

Find the parallel structure error in this sentence and explain WHY it is wrong. I can't wait for the relaxing, shopping, baking and hang outs we're going to have this weekend!

If it cannot stand alone as its own sentence because a word or group of words has made it an incomplete thought.

How can you tell if a clause is a dependent clause?

If it can stand alone as its own complete sentence.

How can you tell if a clause is an independent clause?

After reading up, we felt confident about our camping expedition; however, we hadn't considered how cold it gets in AZ at night.

How could the following two sentences be combined with a semicolon and a conjunction? (1) After reading up, we felt confident about our camping expedition. (2) We hadn't considered how cold it gets in AZ at night.

Our entire group--consisting of experts, researchers, and academics--was completely unprepared.

How could you add the following interrupter into the sentence that follows it? Interrupter: consisting of experts, researchers, and academics Sentence: Our entire group was completely unprepared.

My sister has many talents: swimming, dancing, drawing, and singing.

How could you turn the following two sentences into one sentence that uses a colon? (1) My sister has many talents. (2) She is great at swimming, dancing, drawing, and singing.

A subject, a direct object, an object of a preposition, and a predicate noun.

In addition to functioning like a noun in the sentence, a noun clause can also be what other sentence parts?

Clause

Is the following a phrase or a clause? Although they left early

Phrase

Is the following a phrase or a clause? Jumping up and down

Phrase

Is the following a phrase or a clause? The untouched glass top

Clause

Is the following a phrase or a clause? When we arrived

Dependent

Is the following clause a dependent or independent clause? As if her life depended on it

Independent

Is the following clause a dependent or independent clause? I ran

Independent

Is the following clause a dependent or independent clause? Shirley and Jane left for Florida

Dependent

Is the following clause a dependent or independent clause? That their house is for sale

Complete

Is the following complete or incomplete? I laughed.

Complete

Is the following complete or incomplete? She slept late.

Incomplete

Is the following complete or incomplete? Until he showed up with the right ingredients.

Incomplete

Is the following complete or incomplete? When she left.

Red and warm.

Name the adjectives in this sentence: Kendra's red hair glistened in the warm sun.

Perfectly, still, and patiently.

Name the adverbs in this sentence: Greta sat perfectly still, patiently waiting for her nails to dry.

And, but, and because.

Name the conjunctions in this sentence: The students and the teachers got onto the bus, but before they could head back, they had to take attendance, because someone had been left behind in the past!

Heather, house, and pizza.

Name the nouns in this sentence: Heather wasn't at the house when the pizza came.

In and behind.

Name the prepositions in this sentence: Jamie's dress was tucked in her closet, behind her locked door.

They, it, and them.

Name the pronouns in this sentence: They drove around the neighborhood for hours and it made them excited to move.

Am and happened.

Name the verbs in this sentence: I am so sorry about what happened to you.

A subject, a verb, and a complete thought.

What three "ingredients" are required to make a complete sentence?

How many? Which one? What kind?

What three questions do adjective clauses answer?

no time for breakfast

Where is the parallel structure error in the following sentence? Snoozing way past the alarm, rushing around in the morning, and no time for breakfast is the norm around here.

DO: dinner IO: us

Does the following sentence have any direct and/or indirect objects? If so, name it/them. My mom left dinner for us.

DO: entire room

Does the following sentence have any direct and/or indirect objects? If so, name it/them. The candle lit the entire room.

DO: purple socks DO: respect IO: our injured teammate DO: purple

Does the following sentence have any direct and/or indirect objects? If so, name it/them. We all wore purple socks to show respect to our injured teammate who loved purple.

Error: working harder than everyone else Fix: the lack of commitment from my team

Find and fix the parallel structure error in the following sentence: The time consuming hours, the layers and layers of stress, and getting let down by my team got to be too much.

That bounced across the kitchen floor

Find the adjective clause in the following sentence: Growling ferociously, Oreo and Skeeter, Madison's two dogs, competed for the hardboiled egg that bounced across the kitchen floor.

Which burned slowly

Find the adjective clause in the following sentence: The candle, which burned slowly, emitted a soft, warm, smell.

Because she could easily chew an omelet

Find the adverb clause in the following sentence: After her appointment at the orthodontist, Danielle cooked eggs for dinner because she could easily chew an omelet.

Before you got here

Find the adverb clause in the following sentence: Before you got here, I had been cleaning non stop.

You can test to see if it can be removed from the sentence without making the sentence incomplete. If it can't be removed, it is a noun clause.

Other than looking for a clause that functions as a noun in the sentence, what is another trick you can use to test if a clause is a noun clause?

Adjective clauses, adverb clauses, and noun clauses.

What are the three kinds of dependent clauses?

It signifies the start of a list, introduces a 2nd ind. clause that clarifies the 1st ind. clause, identifies something referred to in the ind. clause in a way that creates emphasis, introduces a block quote, and separates a title.

What does a colon do?

It shows internal or interrupted thought in a sentence.

What does a dash do?

It combines two independent clauses into one sentence without using a conjunction.

What does a semicolon do?

When does it happen? Why does it happen? How does it happen? Under what condition does it happen?

What four questions do adverb clauses answer?

A word that joins sentence parts together.

What is a conjunction?

The noun that is affected by or the receiver of the action or verb in the sentence.

What is a direct object?

A dependent clause that functions as a noun in the sentence.

What is a noun clause?

A person, place, thing, or idea.

What is a noun?

A word that shows a relationship in the sentence.

What is a preposition?

A word that replaces a noun.

What is a pronoun?

The action or state of a sentence.

What is a verb?

A dependent clause that functions as an adjective in the sentence.

What is an adjective clause?

A word that describes a noun.

What is an adjective?

A dependent clause that functions as an adverb in the sentence.

What is an adverb clause?

A word that describes a verb, adverb, or adjective.

What is an adverb?

The noun that is affected by or the receiver of the direct object in the sentence.

What is an indirect object?

A word that expresses emotion or interruption in a sentence.

What is an interjection?

It is consistency and agreement of word forms within sentences (especially within lists).

What is parallel structure?

A phrase only has a subject OR a verb, but a clause must have a subject AND a verb.

What is the difference between a phrase and a clause?