Sentence craft and grammar: fill in the blanks · Grade 10

The word bank and sentences

Directions: Read each sentence. Choose the best word from the word bank and write it on the line.

• Word bank: cross out each word as you use it
• fragment · gerund ____ comma splice ____ parallelism · appositive passive voice ____ semicolon · subordination
• 1 'Because the bus was late' is a · when it stands alone, since a dependent clause needs a main clause.
• 2 lets a writer show that one idea causes, limits or depends on another.
• 3 The sentence 'She likes hiking, swimming and to bike' breaks ____.
• 4 The · is useful when the doer of an action is unknown or unimportant.
• 5 A · can join two independent clauses that are closely related in meaning.
• 6 Joining 'the storm passed, the streets flooded' with only a comma creates a
• 7 In 'Reading widens the world,' the word 'reading' is a · acting as the subject.
• 8 In 'My cousin, a marine biologist, studies octopuses,' the phrase between the commas is an ____.