Basic Sentence Structure Quiz

Questions and Answers

Noun and Adverb

Verb and Object

Subject and Predicate (correct)

Subject and Adjective

To modify the subject

To express an action or state of being (correct)

To act as the sentence's main noun

To describe the subject

A clause cannot have a subject.

An independent clause can stand alone as a complete sentence. (correct)

Clauses are always phrases.

Dependent clauses always contain a subject and a verb.

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Study Notes

A sentence consists of a group of words forming a complete thought.
Key components of a sentence include:
- Subject: identifies the main topic or focus (a noun or pronoun).
- Verb/Predicate: conveys action or state of being related to the subject.
- Complete Context/Thought: provides full meaning to the sentence.

Collins Dictionary identifies sentence structure as the grammatical arrangement of words.
A phrase: a collection of words that cannot stand alone as a sentence; often builds or modifies ideas within sentences.
A clause: includes a subject and a verb; may be independent (able to stand alone) or dependent (cannot stand alone).

Independent Clauses: contains a subject and a verb, can function as a complete sentence.
Dependent Clauses: cannot function alone, providing additional information or context.

Nouns or noun phrases are typically the doers of the action represented by the verb.
Pronouns serve the same function as nouns, often used for simplification or clarity in sentences.

Verbs express the action performed by the subject and form part of the complete predicate.
Gerund Phrase: involves the use of the "-ing" form of a verb to function as a noun in the sentence.

The subject usually appears in the first part of the sentence around 90% of the time.
10% of sentences may use an inverted structure (V-S) where elements are rearranged for emphasis or style, often seen in phrases starting with "here," "there," or "where."