IEO Sentence Structure & Syntax 1 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which of the following is a complete sentence?
- Running through the park.
- The dog barked loudly. (Correct answer)
- Because it was raining.
- A tall, old tree.
Correct answer: The dog barked loudly.
'The dog barked loudly' is a complete sentence because it has a subject ('The dog') and a predicate ('barked loudly').
Question 2: Identify the subject in this sentence: 'The young students eagerly raised their hands.'
- Eagerly
- Raised
- The young students (Correct answer)
- Their hands
Correct answer: The young students
The subject is 'The young students' — it is who the sentence is about and who performed the action.
Question 3: What type of sentence is this: 'Please close the window.'?
- Declarative
- Interrogative
- Imperative (Correct answer)
- Exclamatory
Correct answer: Imperative
An imperative sentence gives a command or makes a request, often with an implied subject 'you.'
Question 4: Which sentence uses the correct subject-verb agreement?
- The group of students were noisy.
- Each of the boys have a pencil.
- The team is playing well. (Correct answer)
- Neither of them are here.
Correct answer: The team is playing well.
'The team is playing well' is correct because collective nouns like 'team' are treated as singular in American English.
Question 5: A sentence that contains two independent clauses joined by a coordinating conjunction is called:
- Simple sentence
- Compound sentence (Correct answer)
- Complex sentence
- Fragment
Correct answer: Compound sentence
A compound sentence joins two independent clauses with a coordinating conjunction (FANBOYS: for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so).
Question 6: Which word in the sentence is the predicate: 'Maria quickly finished her homework.'?
- Maria
- Quickly
- Finished her homework (Correct answer)
- Her
Correct answer: Finished her homework
The predicate is 'quickly finished her homework' — it includes the verb and everything that tells us what Maria did.
IEO Sentence Structure & Syntax 1
Which of the following is a complete sentence?