Practice Test I
Practice Test I1. What do you call a sentence consisting of two or more clauses that can joined by means of coordination or subordination?
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A simple sentence
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A composite sentence
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A complex sentence
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2. What do you call anything that is said in the act of communication?
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An utterance
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A phrase
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A sentence
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3. What do you call a group of words that contains a subject and a predicate but does not express a complete thought?
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A phrase
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A clause
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An utterance
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4. What do you call the way of linking grammatical elements that makes one of them dependent upon the other?
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Linking
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Coordination
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Subordination
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5. What do you call a sentence containing one subject-predicate unit?
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A sentence
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A simple sentence
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A phrase
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6. What do you call a composite sentence in which clauses are joined by means of subordination?
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A complex sentence
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A composite sentence
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A compound sentence
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7. What do you call a group of related words that neither expresses a complete thought, nor contains a subject-predicate unit?
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An utterance
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A sentence
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A phrase
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8. What do you call a way of linking grammatical elements to make them equal in rank?
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Coordination
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Linking
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Subordination
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9. What do you call a group of words containing a subject, a predicate and a complete thought?
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A sentence
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A clause
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A main clause
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10. What do you call a group of words which contains a subject and a predicate but does not express a complete thought?
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A subordinate clause
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A clause
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A phrase
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