Improving Sentences

Question 1

types of sentences

Imperative

Answer 1

• request or command
• ie. finish your homework, go to the store.

Question 2

Which indefinite pronouns are always plural? singular?

Answer 2

• plural: both, many, several, few, others
• singular: SSSAAANNNEEE + either, neither, other, each, one

Question 3

direct or indirect object

Answer 3

• direct: answer “what” or “whom”
• indirect: answers “TO whom” or “FOR whom” ; normally is: verb, INdirect object, direct object

Question 4

What is an infinitive verb?

Answer 4

“to” + verb

Question 5

What connector makes a compound subject

Answer 5

and

Question 6

What are special subjects that look plural but are singular?

Answer 6

sports, politics, statistics, mathmatics, physics, news, economics

Question 7

Eight dollars (are/ is) how much the movie costs vs. Dollars (are/ is) worth more in some countries than others

Answer 7

• is; singular when talking about a dollar amount
• are; plural when talking about dollars in general

Question 8

either…or; neither…nor; not only… but also; subject verb/ pronoun antecendent agreement?

Answer 8

• look at the subject losest to the verb and agree those (same with pronoun antecedent agreement)

Question 9

present participle vs. gerund

Answer 9

• both are verbs that ALWAYS end in - ing
• present participle: act as adj or verb ; if take out whole phrase, sentence still makes sense
• gerund: act as noun (so subject, object, object of prep. or verb, or predicate nominative aka subject complement); if replace phrase with it, sentence still makes sense

Question 10

technical parts of:
* simple sentence
* compound sentence
* complex sentence
* compound-complex sentence

Answer 10

• aka complete sentence; has a subject and verb; has ONE idependent clause
• has 2 or more independent clauses (simple/ complete sentences); connected by FANBOYS (coordinating conjunction) or semicolon
• has 1 independent clause and 1 or more dependent clauses connected by a subordinating conjunction (while, when, because, although, before, after, since if, whenever, where, which, until)
• has at least 2 independent clauses and at least 1 dependent clause

Question 11

when to capitalize kinship (ie. cousin, grandma, uncle)

Answer 11

when it precedes a personal name like joe, grandma mary, uncle malik ; DO NOT capitalize if preceding it is: a, an, his, her, my, our, theirs.

Question 12

what word is always capitalized?

Answer 12

ENGLISH

Question 13

what is NEVER capitalized?

Answer 13

seasons

Question 14

president barack obama vs. obama, the president of the US, which president is capitalized?

Answer 14

first one

Question 15

Which 2 words are ALWAYS plural?

Answer 15

I, You

Question 16

What is the main subject verb agreement rule?

Answer 16

subjects that are singular have verbs that end with an -s.

Question 17

independent + independent clauses are joined by what?

Answer 17

coordinating conjunctions (fanboys) OR semicolon

Question 18

independent + dependent clauses are joined by what?

Answer 18

subordinating conjunctions (while, when, because, although, after, before, since, if, whenever, where, which, until)