CLAUSES: (from Exercise B, pg. 115 in Grammar Book)
Directions: Identify the subordinate clause in each of the following sentences. Tell whether each
clause is used as an adjective, adverb, or noun. ANSWERS ARE ON THE NEXT PAGE.
__________ 1.
Emily Dickinson, who was born in 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts, was a
great American poet.
__________ 2. She appeared to lead a fairly normal life until she became a recluse in her
family’s home.
__________ 3. There she wrote poems that literary critics now call “great American
poetry.”
__________ 4. Unfortunately, only a few of Dickinson’s poems were published while she
was alive.
__________ 5. After she died in 1886, her other poems were published.
__________ 6. I think everyone should read at last some of Dickinson’s poetry.
__________ 7. Dickinson is a poet whose work I now read often.
__________ 8. The poems I have just finished reading are “A Narrow Fellow in the
Grass” and “Apparently with No Surprise.”
__________ 9. The rhythms of Dickinson’s poems are best appreciated when you read the
poems aloud.
__________ 10. Whatever I read by Emily Dickinson surprises and inspires me.
SENTENCE STRUCTURE: (from Exercise C, pg. 116 in
Grammar Book)
Directions: Classify the following sentences as simple, compound, complex, or compoundcomplex.
1. After eating and drinking, the elephants galloped the elephants galloped through the
wheat field.
2. Mr. Chisholm wanted to go bowling, but Mrs. Chisholm preferred the dinner theater.
3. Ten steps up the dark staircase, the twins lost their nerve; dinner at home suddenly
seemed much more appealing.
4. Kenzuo insisted that the bullet train was the best way to get to Osaka after midnight.
5. Dr. Bourgeois knew that singing loudly would only irritate others, so he decided to keep
his high spirits to himself.
ANSWERS:
Subordinate clause is underlined.
1. adjective. Emily Dickinson, who was born in 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts, was a great
American poet.
2. adverb. She appeared to lead a fairly normal life until she became a recluse in her family’s
home.
3. adjective. There she wrote poems that literary critics now call “great American poetry.”
4. adverb. Unfortunately, only a few of Dickinson’s poems were published while she was alive.
5. adverb. After she died in 1886, her other poems were published.
6. noun. I think everyone should read at last some of Dickinson’s poetry.
7. adjective. Dickinson is a poet whose work I now read often.
8. adjective. The poems I have just finished reading are “A Narrow Fellow in the Grass” and
“Apparently with No Surprise.”
9. adjective. The rhythms of Dickinson’s poems are best appreciated when you read the poems
aloud.
10. noun. Whatever I read by Emily Dickinson surprises and inspires me.
Directions: Classify the following sentences as simple, compound, complex, or compoundcomplex.
Independent clause in bold; subordinate clause underlined.
1. After eating and drinking, the elephants galloped the elephants galloped through
the wheat field.
2. Mr. Chisholm wanted to go bowling, but Mrs. Chisholm preferred the dinner
theater.
3. Ten steps up the dark staircase, the twins lost their nerve; dinner at home suddenly
seemed much more appealing.
4. Kenzuo insisted that the bullet train was the best way to get to Osaka after midnight.
5. Dr. Bourgeois knew that singing loudly would only irritate others, so he decided to keep
his high spirits to himself.