Topic 7 (session A) - The grammar of complex sentences > Complex SPOCA self test
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1. How many main clauses and how many nested clauses are there in the following sentence?
The computers crashed, the students cheered, the embarrassed tutors wanted the earth to swallow them up and the professor with the bow tie decided to go back to his word processor.
choose answer ... 2 main clauses and 4 nested clauses 4 main clauses and 2 nested clauses 3 main clauses and 3 nested clauses 4 main clauses and no nested clauses
2. What kind of clause is the highlighted part of the following sentence?
When the car arrived, the gangsters jumped in.
choose answer ... directly nested AdvCl directly nested PCl indirectly nested PCl directly nested NCl
3. What kind of clause is the highlighted part of the following sentence?
If we finish work at 10 o'clock, we can have a couple of drinks at the pub John drinks in before we catch the bus back.
choose answer ... Comparative clause (CCl) Prepositional clause (PCl) Relative clause (RCl) Noun clause (NCl)
4. What kind of clause is the highlighted part of the following sentence?
The students presented the little professor with a bigger bowtie than he had ever seen in his life.
5. What kind of sentence is the following sentence?
The students asked for an extension for their essays but the tutors said departmental rules did not allow it.
choose answer ... simple sentences long sentence Relative clause sentence complex sentence
6. What kind of clause is the highlighted clause in the following sentence?
The students finished the workshop early by skipping the self-test.
choose answer ... Propositional clause (PCl) Prepositional clause (PCl) Relative clause (RCl) Noun clause (NCl)
7. What kind of clauses are Relative clauses?
choose answer ... Main clauses Family clauses Indirectly nested clauses. Directly nested clauses.
8. What kind of structure does the following sentence have?
Read, learn, inwardly digest.
choose answer ... listing structure simple structure linking structure nesting structure
9. Which of the descriptions below applies to the following sentence?
What you see is what you get.
choose answer ... complex sentence: 1 main clause with 2 indirectly nested Noun clauses complex sentence: 1 main clause with 2 directly nested Noun clauses complex sentence: 1 main clause with 1 directly nested Noun clause complex sentence: 1 main clause with 2 directly nested Adverbial clauses
10. How many RCls are there in the following sentence?
This is the dinosaur which swallowed the dog that chased the cat that ate the rat which was eating the corn stored in the house that Jack built.
choose answer ... 3 4 5 6
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