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Is This A Simple or A Compound Sentence?

This document contains 8 multiple choice questions testing understanding of simple, compound, and complex sentences. The questions covered identifying each sentence type and combining sentence parts to form logical complex sentences. The feedback provided whether each answer was correct or incorrect with the right answer explained.

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Is This A Simple or A Compound Sentence?

This document contains 8 multiple choice questions testing understanding of simple, compound, and complex sentences. The questions covered identifying each sentence type and combining sentence parts to form logical complex sentences. The feedback provided whether each answer was correct or incorrect with the right answer explained.

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Is this a simple or a compound sentence?
Ramzi put an extra dash of ginger in the cookie batter.
Choose 1 answer:

Select one:
a. It's a compound sentence.

b. It's a simple sentence. 

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The correct answer is: It's a simple sentence.

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Combine these parts to make a logical complex sentence.

1. Keeping her speech short


2. The Mayor promised to improve roadways and bridges
3. to appeal to as many of her voters as possible.

Choose 1 answer:

Select one:
a. keeping her speech short, the Mayor promised to improved roadways  and bridges; she
tried to appeal as many  of her voters as possible.
b. Keeping her speech short, the Mayor promised to improve roadways and bridges

because she wanted to appeal to as many of her voters as possible. 

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The correct answer is: Keeping her speech short, the Mayor promised to improve roadways
and bridges because she wanted to appeal to as many of her voters as possible.

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Is this a simple or a compound sentence?
The lizard rested on a rock.
Choose 1 answer:

Select one:
a. It's a compound sentence.

b. It's a simple sentence. 

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The correct answer is: It's a simple sentence.

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Which of these options is a compound-complex sentence?
Choose 1 answer:

Select one:
a. Noah peered into the bottle, but, although Diane kept trying to explain it to him, he

couldn’t figure out what coconut aminos were. 


b. Despite Diane’s repeated explanations, Noah couldn’t figure out what coconut aminos
were.

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The correct answer is: Noah peered into the bottle, but, although Diane kept trying to
explain it to him, he couldn’t figure out what coconut aminos were.

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Which of these options is a simple sentence?
Choose 1 answer:

Select one:
a. Hagrid skillfully piloted his flying motorcycle over the skies of Surrey.

b. Hagrid loved his flying motorcycle; he skillfully piloted it over the skies of Surrey. 
c. Hagrid loved his flying motorcycle because he could skillfully pilot it over the skies of
Surrey.

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The correct answer is: Hagrid skillfully piloted his flying motorcycle over the skies of Surrey.

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Which of these options is a compound sentence?
Choose 1 answer:

Select one:
a. While kayaking in the ocean, Juniper saw a humpback whale.
b. Juniper went kayaking in the ocean and saw a humpback whale.

c. Juniper went kayaking in the ocean, and she saw a humpback whale. 

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The correct answer is: Juniper went kayaking in the ocean, and she saw a humpback
whale.

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Choose the compound sentence.
Choose 1 answer:

Select one:
a. The guitarist rocked hard.

b. The guitarist rocked hard, but the bassist rocked harder. 

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The correct answer is: The guitarist rocked hard, but the bassist rocked harder.

Question 8
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Which of these options is a compound-complex sentence?
Choose 1 answer:

Select one:
a. n the early 20th century, a Louisiana congressman named Robert Broussard proposed a
plan to fight an invasive plant species: he intended to introduce and farm hippos for meat in
the Mississippi River, even though hippos are extremely dangerous animals.
b. In the early 20th century, a Louisiana congressman named Robert Broussard proposed a
dangerous, innovative plan to fight an invasive plant species: he intended to introduce and

farm hippos for meat in the Mississippi River. 

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The correct answer is: n the early 20th century, a Louisiana congressman named Robert
Broussard proposed a plan to fight an invasive plant species: he intended to introduce and
farm hippos for meat in the Mississippi River, even though hippos are extremely dangerous
animals.

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