ENGLISH SENTENCE STRUCTURE

FINAL EXAM PREPARATION

1. What is a sentence?
A group of words that contains atleast a subject and a verb and expresses a complete thought

2. What are the rules of capitalization? Give an example of each rule.

1. The first word in a sentence (My mom is a vegan)
2. The pronoun I alone (While I clean the room)
3. Names of people and their titles (Mr. President Jokowi)
4. Nationalities, languages, religions, and ethnic groups (British,
Muslim, Batak, etc)
5. Spesific Places (Lake Toba, Gelora Bung Karno Stadium, etc)

3. What are the rules of comma? Give an example of each rule.

1. Use a comma to separate independent clauses
2. Use a comma after an introductory clause or phrase
3. Use a comma between all items in a series
4. Use commas to set off nonrestrictive clauses
5. Use a comma to set off appositives
6. Use a comma to indicate direct address
7. Use commas to set off direct quotations
8. Use commas with dates, addresses, titles, and numbers
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4. What are the 4 types of sentences in English?

- Simple Sentence
- Compound Sentence
- Complex Sentence
- Compound-Complex Sentence

5. What is a simple sentence? Give an example.

It is a type of sentence which has one independent clause or one S-V combination.
The formulas of simple sentence may vary from SV, SSV, SVV, to SSVV.

6. What is a compound sentence? Give an example.

7. What are the coordinating conjunctions for compound sentence?

8. What is a complex sentence? Give an example.
9. What are the differences between independent clause and dependent clause?
10. How many types of dependent clause are there for complex sentence?
11. What is an adverb clause?
12. What are the subordinating conjunctions commonly used for complex sentence with adverb
clause?
13. What is an adjective clause?
14. What are the subordinating conjunctions commonly used for complex sentence with adjective
clause?
15. What is a noun clause?
16. What are the subordinating conjunctions for complex sentence with noun clause?
17. What are the differences between adverb clause, adjective clause and noun clause? Give an
example of each type in a sentence.
18. How do you distinguish compound sentence from complex sentence?
19. What is a compound-complex sentence? Give an example.
20. What is a comma splice? What is a run-on sentence? How do these sentence errors occur?