Common Core: 7th Grade English Language Arts : Use Simple, Compound, Complex, and Compound-Complex Sentences: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.7.1.B
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Example Questions
Example Question #21 : Language
Select the answer choice that correctly classifies the sentence below:
If you want to go with me to the store tomorrow.
A complex sentence
Run-on sentence
Sentence fragment
A compound-complex sentence
Sentence fragment
A sentence fragment is an incomplete sentence. Some fragments are incomplete because they lack either a subject or a verb, or both. Dependent clauses are also fragments because they cannot stand on their own. This sentence is missing the ending and leaves readers hanging. More information needs to be added to the sentence to correct it. An example would be, “If you want to go with me to the store tomorrow then be ready at noon.”
Example Question #22 : Language
What is a compound-complex sentence?
A sentence having two or more coordinate independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses.
A sentence made up of an independent clause and a dependent clause.
A sentence made up of two independent clauses joined by a coordinating conjunction such as and, but, or, or so.
A sentence made up of a single independent clause.
A sentence having two or more coordinate independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses.
A sentence having two or more coordinate independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses is a compound-complex sentence. A simple sentence only has one independent clause, a compound sentence has two independent clauses joined together with a coordinating conjunction, and a complex sentence has an independent clause and a dependent clause.
Example Question #23 : Language
Select the answer choice that correctly classifies the sentence below:
Susan doesn’t like going to the movies because it is loud, so she waits for the movie to come out on a streaming platform.
A complex sentence
Sentence fragment
Run-on sentence
A compound-complex sentence
A compound-complex sentence
A compound-complex sentence has two or more coordinate independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses. The portion of the sentence before the comma (Susan doesn’t like going to the movies because it is loud) is an independent clause and the portion after the comma is a dependent clause (so she waits for the movie to come out on a streaming platform).
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