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Date: ____________________________________
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Sentences Test Review
A. Identify each underlined group of words as an independent clause or a dependent
clause.
1. Dalie Jimenez was concerned that disadvantaged children were not getting books
read to them often enough.
2. She had learned in her psychology class that reading to young children was very
important.
3. Children need this experience so that their brains can develop properly.
4. When she was 14 years old, Dalie began volunteering at a Head Start program in her
hometown of Miami, Florida.
5. She liked this work because she was interested in children.
6. When she told her friends about her work, they wanted to volunteer, too.
7. Dalie and about 30 of her friends started a children’s library that consisted of
donated books.
8. They used puppets to act out stories while they read.
9. When Dalie heard that Head Start’s funding was going to be cut by one-third, she
lobbied lawmakers.
10. Because they worked so hard, she and her friends were able to help save the Head
Start program.
B. Identify each sentence as simple or compound.
1. Justin Lebo of Saddle Brook, New Jersey, loved bikes.
2. He and his dad shared an interest in bicycle racing.
3. They had their garage set up like a bike shop; they worked there on their bikes.
4. Justin bought a couple of rundown bikes, and he fixed them up.
5. The bikes looked as good as new, but Justin didn’t need any more bikes himself.
6. He decided to donate them to the Kilbarchan Home for Boys.
7. Justin liked the idea of people fixing up bikes for those less fortunate, so he continued to do
so in his spare time.
8. Many people offered him their old bikes for free.
9. The donations were helpful for a time, but soon Justin ran out of space in his small garage.
10. Justin fixed 250 bikes, and he gave them all away.
C. Identify each of the following groups of words as a fragments (F), a run-on (RO), or a complete
sentence (CS).
1. The Anasazi, a Native American people.
2. Represented by present-day Pueblo people.
3. Anasazi is a Navajo word.
4. It may mean “ancient ones” it may also mean “enemy ancestors.”
5. Anasazi groups have lived in the Southwest for at least 1,800 years.
6. Built huge dwellings in sandstone cliffs.
7. These dwellings are impressive, you can still see them today.
8. One cliff palace has 150 rooms!
9. Around 1300 A.D. these dwellings were abandoned, nobody knows why.
10. Mysterious but true.
D. Identify each of the following sentences as declarative (D), interrogative (INT), imperative
(IMP), or exclamatory (EXC). Place the proper punctuation at the end.
1. Look at that big yellow and black bee
2. That’s a bumblebee
3. Did you know they can live as far north as the Arctic Circle
4. The buzzing sound is a bumblebee fanning its wings
5. Tell me how they build their nests
6. The queen constructs a pot of wax and fills it with honey
7. She lays her eggs in another pot of wax
8. What happens to the eggs
9. They hatch and become worker bees
10. Some hives are a foot wide and have up to 700 workers
On the written part of the test, you will need to know how to do the following:
how to write a compound sentence
how to write a declarative sentence
how to write an interrogative sentence
how to write an imperative sentence
how to write an exclamatory sentence
how to correct run-ons and fragments