Sentence Builds Flashcards
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You hear a jumbled sentence. Click the words in the correct order to form a grammatically correct sentence. The words are: "I / know / don't / where / is / the station". Which of the following is the correctly built sentence?
Answer: I don't know where the station is.
When a question is embedded within a larger statement (an indirect or embedded question), it follows standard statement word order (subject-verb), not the inverted order (verb-subject) of a direct question. Therefore, 'the station' (subject) comes before 'is' (verb).
You are given the following words to build a sentence: "must / the project / be / by Friday / completed". Which sentence correctly uses the passive voice with a modal verb?
Answer: The project must be completed by Friday.
The correct structure for the passive voice with a modal verb is: Subject + Modal Verb + 'be' + Past Participle. In this case, 'The project' is the subject, 'must' is the modal, followed by 'be completed'.
The words provided are: "had / I / arrived / the performance / no sooner / than / began". Which of the following sentences correctly applies the rule of inversion after a negative adverbial?
Answer: No sooner had I arrived than the performance began.
When a sentence begins with a negative or limiting adverbial phrase like 'No sooner', the subject and auxiliary verb must be inverted. The correct structure is 'No sooner + auxiliary verb (had) + subject (I) + ...', which is followed by 'than'.
You need to build a sentence from these words: "the police / ran away / seeing / the suspect". Which option correctly uses a participial phrase to describe the situation?
Answer: Seeing the police, the suspect ran away.
The present participial phrase 'Seeing the police' acts as an adverbial phrase that modifies the main clause 'the suspect ran away'. It describes the reason for or the context of the action. Placing it at the beginning of the sentence, separated by a comma, is the most clear and grammatically correct construction.
The following words are presented: "if / it / we / will / the game / postpone / rains". Which sentence is a grammatically correct conditional statement?
Answer: We will postpone the game if it rains.
This is a first conditional sentence. Both 'If it rains, we will postpone the game' and 'We will postpone the game if it rains' are correct. The key is that the main clause ('we will postpone the game') and the 'if' clause ('if it rains') are both structured correctly and linked together logically.
Build a sentence using these words: "the author / lives in a small town / just won an award / who". Which sentence correctly places the relative clause?
Answer: The author who lives in a small town just won an award.
The relative clause 'who lives in a small town' provides essential information about 'the author'. To be grammatically correct and clear, the relative clause must immediately follow the noun it is describing.