NBT Sentence Construction and Grammar Flashcards

Which sentence is grammatically correct?

Answer: He and I went to the shop.

When using compound subjects, each pronoun should be in the subjective case. 'He' and 'I' are both subject pronouns. Test by using each pronoun alone: 'He went' and 'I went' are both correct.

Identify the sentence with correct subject-verb agreement:

Answer: Neither of the options is suitable.

'Neither' is a singular indefinite pronoun and takes a singular verb 'is.' While 'data' is technically plural, modern usage accepts both singular and plural verbs with it.

Which sentence correctly uses the apostrophe?

Answer: The children's toys were scattered.

'Children's' correctly shows possession with an irregular plural (children). 'It's' means 'it is' (not possessive), 'its' is the possessive form, and 'boy's' here incorrectly uses an apostrophe with a plural.

What type of sentence is this: 'Although she studied hard, she did not pass the exam'?

Answer: Complex sentence

This is a complex sentence because it contains one independent clause ('she did not pass the exam') and one dependent clause ('Although she studied hard'). The subordinating conjunction 'although' makes the first clause dependent.

Which of the following is a run-on sentence?

Answer: She was tired she went to bed early.

'She was tired she went to bed early' is a run-on sentence because two independent clauses are joined without proper punctuation or a conjunction. It needs a comma and conjunction, semicolon, or period.

Choose the sentence that uses the correct tense consistently:

Answer: They studied for the test and passed with distinction.

Both verbs 'studied' and 'passed' are in the past tense, maintaining tense consistency. The other sentences mix present and past tense incorrectly.