sentences

Question 1

to parts of speech needed to create sentence

Answer 1

subject and predicate

Question 2

3 categories of questions

Answer 2

declarative, imperative and interrogatory

Question 3

create a sentence for each kind of sentence

Answer 3

declarative - Today is a lovely summer’s day
interrogatory - Am I the only one seeing this right now?
imperative - Get back here now!

Question 4

different types of sentences

Answer 4

Simple, compound, complex, compound - complex

Question 5

what constitutes these sentence types?

Answer 5

Simple - an independent clause

compound - 2 independent clauses

complex - 1 dependent clauses and 1 independent clause

compound - complex: 2 independent clauses 1 dependent clause

Question 6

write these sentences.

Answer 6

simple - I am simple.
compound - I am simple and I like basketball.
complex - When I lived in Malawi, I liked soccer.
compound - complex : I like playing cards but I like it more when I’m winning.

Question 7

3 word to describe direct and indirect objects.

Answer 7

direct - thing done to

indirect - receiver of doing

Question 8

define phrases and clause; give examples

Answer 8

phrases - group of word that can be expressed as various parts of a sentence.
e.g. sack of bones - noun

clause - group of words that have a subject and predicate. others are not so clear on their own to make sentences. e.g. “I’m that guy”

Question 9

define relative clauses in 2 words.

Answer 9

the connectors.

Question 10

types of relative clauses and e.g

Answer 10

definite relative clauses - define the subject.
e.g. I met a guy whose name’s Dave.
these clauses do not need commas before or after them.

indefinite relative clauses - explain the subject.
e.g. Mary Jane, the greatest singer alive, came to visit me.

Question 11

relative pronouns

Answer 11

whose, who, when, where, that, which