English Terms 5

Question 0

Dependent Clause

Answer 0

A clause not expressing complete thought and cannot stand alone as a sentence
“According to Oxford’s Robert M. May, most of the birds and mammals we know will be gone in 400 years.”

Question 1

Simple Sentence
Independent Clause
Declarative Sentence

Answer 1

A sentence with one independent clause and no subordinate clauses
“A weasel is wild.”

Question 2

Compound Sentence

Dependent+Independent Clauses

Answer 2

A sentence with two or more independent clauses but no subordinate clause
“People have made great strides toward obliterating other people,too, but that has been the human effort all along…”

Question 3

Complex Sentence

Dependent+Independent Clauses

Answer 3

A sentence w one independent clause and at least a subordinate clause
“Dep. Clause sentence”

Question 4

Compound-Complex Sentence

2 independents+dependent clauses

Answer 4

A sentence containing 2 independent clauses and one dependent
“If I remember correctly, the young protagonists were orphaned,& rather than live w cruel relative, they ran away to the woods to live on their own”

Question 5

Exclamatory

Answer 5

A sentence expressing strong feelings

“Mow your lawn or get out!”

Question 6

Interrogative/Rhetorical Question

Answer 6

A sentence that asks a question

“Is it not late? a late time to be living?”

Question 7

Imperative

Answer 7

A type of sentence which gives an order or a direction and ends with a period or exclamation mark

Question 8

Loose sentence

Answer 8

A sentence containing the subject in the beginning “|For no lawn is an island|, at least in America”

Question 9

Periodic Sentence

Answer 9

A sentence containing the subject at the end
“Since we traditionally eschewed fences & hedges in America,|the suburb Vista can be marred by the negligence-or dissent-of a single property owner

Question 10

Balanced Sentence

Answer 10

A sentence with two or more clauses using parallel structure

“our look was as if two lovers, or cradle enemies.”