Syntax

Question 1

Sentence types: Simple

Answer 1

Consist of one single clause

Question 2

Sentence types: Compound

Answer 2

Consist of two or more coordinated clauses (can stand on their own)

Question 3

Sentence types: Complex

Answer 3

Consist of at least one subordinate clause (cannot stand alone)

Question 4

Sentence types: Compound-complex

Answer 4

Involves at least one coordinate clause, and at least one subordinate clause

Question 5

Sentence types: Fragments

Answer 5

Do not have the requisites to form even a simple sentence

Question 6

Sentence types: Declarative

Answer 6

Stating a statement

Question 7

Sentence types: Imperative

Answer 7

Commands

Question 8

Sentence types: Interrogatives

Answer 8

Questions

Question 9

Sentence types: Exclamatives

Answer 9

Expressions (interjections and impulsive remarks)

Question 10

Syntactic patterning: Parallelism

Answer 10

Similarities in sentence structure (I scream, you scream…..

Question 11

Syntactic patterning: Antithesis

Answer 11

Use of contrasting words or ideas via similar sentence structures

Question 12

Syntactic patterning: Listing

Answer 12

Lists

Question 13

Syntactic patterning: Ellipsis

Answer 13

Omitting parts of a sentence to prevent unnecessary repetition

Question 14

Syntactic patterning: Nominalisation

Answer 14

Turning a verb into a noun (He suggests that…. > His suggestion that….)