Sentence Fundamentals Quiz

A complete sentence must have only two things: a subject and a verb.

False

A compound sentence consists of one independent clause and one dependent clause.

False

The following example is a comma splice: Jacob witnessed a murder last Friday, and he never reported it to the police.

False

The following example is a run-on sentence: The very small child carefully crawled across the floor, then she grabbed the ball and threw it.

False

The word "has" is a linking verb.

False

"Take the trash out now" is an example of an imperative sentence or a command.

True

A "clause" must have a subject and a verb to be classified as such.

True

A compound complex sentence contains at least two independent clauses and at least one dependent clause.

True

The following is an example of a simple sentence: "On the morning of February 14, 2014, someone took a box of encyclopedias from the library at the far end of town and threw them into the dumpster just for spite."

True

The simple subject and verb will never be found inside a prepositional phrase.

True