psat prep

Question 1

True or False: A sentence needs a capital letter, endmark, subject, verb, and complete thought.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

True or false: A clause is a group of words that contain an adjective and a verb/predicate.

Answer 2

False: subject and a verb.

Question 3

Is this an independent or dependent clause?
“My cat plays Major League Baseball.”

Answer 3

Independent

Question 4

Is this an independent or dependent clause?
“Since my best friend is annoying.

Answer 4

Dependent

Question 5

What is being described?

words that kill independent clauses and turn them into dependent clauses

Answer 5

Subordinate Conjunction

Question 6

Is this sentence structure correct?

IC,FANBOYS IC

Answer 6

Yes

Question 7

Is this sentence structure correct?

IC:IC

Answer 7

No, IC;IC

Question 8

Is A or B incorrect sentence structure?

a.) DC, IC
b.) IC, DC

Answer 8

B

Question 9

Which of the words listed below are not aaawubbis?

As, after, when, because, while, although, until, before, for, because, but, if, and, yet, since

Answer 9

For, but, yet, and, if

Question 10

True or false: FANBOYS are also called coordinating conjunctions.

Answer 10

True

Question 11

True or False: However, consequentially, nevertheless, meanwhile, and therefore are all examples of conjunctive adverbs.

Answer 11

True

Question 12

What punctuation would you put for this sentence? (bonus points if you can name the different components inside!)

Hunter is tall however I am taller

Answer 12

Hunter is tall; however, I am taller.
Bonus: IC, Conjunctive adverb, IC

Question 13

When do you connect two independent clauses with a comma?

Answer 13

NEVER!

Question 14

True or false: No matter what, you need to put a semicolon in front of a conjunctive adverb.

Answer 14

False: if you can take out the conjunctive adverb and the se dance is the same, only put a comma! Ex: The dodgers, however, may lose the game.

Question 15

What is a simple sentence?

Answer 15

A sentence with one independent clause

Question 16

What is a compound sentence?

Answer 16

A sentence that contains two or more independent clauses for example IC, FANBOYS IC.

Question 17

What is a complex sentence?

Answer 17

A sentence with one dependent clause and one independent clause

Question 18

True or False: When taking the psat, always look at all your answers before you answer.

Answer 18

FALSE! KNOW YOUR ANSWER BEFORE YOU MAKE A CHOICE.

Question 19

On the day of the PSAT, should you think, “does it sound decent or messed up” when reading a sentence and examining the structure?

Answer 19

YES!

Question 20

On the PSAT, DO NOT BE REPETITIVE.

Answer 20

SERIOUSLY. DONT.

Question 21

What is parallelism?

Answer 21

Consistent verbs (to swim, to bike, to run)

Question 22

True or False: either and or, neither and nor, and not only and but also need to go together.

Answer 22

True.