Basic Flashcards

Which of the following is a run-on sentence?

Answer: She studied for the exam she passed.

A run-on sentence joins two independent clauses without proper punctuation or a conjunction.

Which of the following is a sentence fragment?

Answer: Running through the park every morning.

A fragment lacks a subject or a main verb; 'Running through the park every morning' has no subject performing the action.

Which sentence uses a semicolon correctly?

Answer: I wanted to go; it rained.

A semicolon correctly joins two closely related independent clauses without a conjunction.

Which sentence uses an apostrophe correctly?

Answer: The dog's collar was red.

'Dog's' shows singular possession—the collar belonging to one dog—using apostrophe + s.

Which sentence follows capitalization rules correctly?

Answer: We visited the Grand Canyon last summer.

Proper nouns like 'Grand Canyon' are capitalized, but common nouns like 'summer' and sentence beginnings only.

Which sentence places the modifier correctly?

Answer: She drove her children to school almost every day.

The modifier 'almost' should be placed directly before 'every day,' the phrase it actually modifies.

Which coordinating conjunction best completes this sentence? 'He wanted to stay home, ___ his boss required him to come in.'

Answer: but

'But' signals contrast between what he wanted and what his boss required.