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These self-assessment exercises
will help you to check your knowledge of teaching and assessing sentences
and clauses.
Select a self-assessment exercise
from the options below:
Self-Assessment
Exercise: A rich merchant
So that you can assess your
knowledge, you will be asked a series of questions about this passage.
I once met an extremely
rich merchant called Jeremiah who was quite excessively fond of cats.
Whenever he went to his shops in the city Jeremiah took one of his
cats with him, and his favourite cat's portrait could be seen on the
signboard above each of his shops.
Question
1
In the first sentence,
I once met an extremely
rich merchant called Jeremiah who was quite excessively fond of cats.
one of the verbs has a complement.
Choose it from the following list:
an
extremely rich merchant
Jeremiah
quite
excessively fond of cats
Question 2
In the first sentence,
I once met an extremely
rich merchant called Jeremiah who was quite excessively fond of cats.
What kind of clause is who
was quite excessively fond of cats?
an
adverbial clause
a
finite main clause
a
non-finite main clause
a
relative clause
Question 3
Here is the text again:
I once
met an extremely rich merchant called Jeremiah who was quite
excessively fond of cats. Whenever he went
to his shops in the city Jeremiah took one of his cats with him, and
his favourite cat's portrait could be seen on the signboard above
each of his shops.
Click on the underlined word
which is a subordinating conjunction.
Question 4
The highlighted words are a
clause:
I once met an extremely
rich merchant called Jeremiah who was quite excessively fond of cats.
Whenever he went to his shops in the city Jeremiah took one of his
cats with him, and his favourite cat's portrait could be seen on
the signboard above each of his shops.
Is it:
an
adverbial clause
a
declarative main clause
a
relative clause?
Question 5
What is the subject of the
clause Whenever he went to his shops in the city?
He
his
shops
the
city
Question 6
The last clause in this passage
is highlighted again:
I once met an extremely
rich merchant called Jeremiah who was quite excessively fond of cats.
Whenever he went to his shops in the city Jeremiah took one of his
cats with him, and his favourite cat's portrait could be seen on
the signboard above each of his shops.
Is it:
relative
negative
passive
interrogative?
Question 7
The subject of the last clause
is:
Jeremiah
his
cat
his
favourite cat's portrait
the
signboard above each of his shops
Self-Assessment
Exercise - Sentences
Each of these sentences contains
a subordinate clause:
You'll
hurt yourself if you're not careful.
Although
it was cold, the weather was pleasant enough.
Where
are the biscuits that I bought this morning?
John,
who was very angry, began shouting.
Click
on the first
word of
the subordinate clause in each sentence.
Self-Assessment
Exercise: About a poem
This passage written by a pupil
at KS3 uses subordinate clauses with confidence.
It is
probably a poem that could be handed down in his family so that all
his descendants would know what a wonderful person he thought his
grandfather was.
You
will be asked a series of questions about the clauses in this sentence.
Question 1
Here is the sentence again with a (rather long) clause underlined:
It is probably
a poem that could be handed down in his family so that all his
descendants would know what a wonderful person he thought his grandfather
was.
How is this clause signalled
- by:
Question 2
Now, another question about
the same clause:
It is probably
a poem that could be handed down in his family so that all his
descendants would know what a wonderful person he thought his grandfather
was.
Which word does this clause
modify?
Question 3
Now we open a Chinese box and
look at the next nested clause:
It is probably
a poem that could be handed down in his family so that all his
descendants would know what a wonderful person he thought his grandfather
was.
This clause is signalled by
the subordinating conjunction, so that. What
is the function of this clause?
Question 4
What is the function of this
next clause?
It is probably
a poem that could be handed down in his family so that all his descendants
would know what a wonderful person he thought his grandfather
was.
Question 5
What is the function of this
shortest clause?
It is probably
a poem that could be handed down in his family so that all his descendants
would know what a wonderful person he thought his grandfather
was.
Self
Assessment Exercise: Loch Ness
This is the opening of a KS3
pupil’s story.
There I
stood on the edge of the loch just looking around at the views
and at the old castle which stood opposite me. Then from the middle
of nowhere this monster like thing just popped out of the water, its
long green body moving slowly along the top of the water. Then
I suddenly thought, "is that the loch Ness monster"?. I carried
on watching it moving along the water, I looked around to see if there
was anybody near me, watching this strange creature, there
was nobody.
Question 1
All the highlighted subordinate
clauses are ...?
Question 2
What kind of clause is underlined?
There I stood on the edge of the loch just looking around at the
views and at the old castle which stood opposite me. Then from
the middle of nowhere this monster like thing just popped out of the
water, its long green body moving slowly along the top of the water.
Then I suddenly thought, "is that the loch Ness monster"?. I carried
on watching it moving along the water, I looked around to see if there
was anybody near me, watching this strange creature, there was nobody.
Is it ...
Question 3
Another subordinate clause is highlighted here:
There I
stood on the edge of the loch just looking around at the views and
at the old castle which stood opposite me. Then from the middle of
nowhere this monster like thing just popped out of the water, its
long green body moving slowly along the top of the water. Then I suddenly
thought, "is that the loch Ness monster"?. I carried on watching
it moving along the water, I looked around to see if there was
anybody near me, watching this strange creature, there was nobody.
What kind of subordinate clause
is this?
Question 4
Now look at the underlined clause here:
There I
stood on the edge of the loch just looking around at the views and
at the old castle which stood opposite me. Then from the middle of
nowhere this monster like thing just popped out of the water, its
long green body moving slowly along the top of the water. Then
I suddenly thought, "is that the loch Ness monster"?. I carried
on watching it moving along the water, I looked around to see if there
was anybody near me, watching this strange creature, there was nobody.
This subordinate clause is
adverbial. Is it:
Question 5
Look at the underlined passage:
There I
stood on the edge of the loch just looking around at the views and
at the old castle which stood opposite me. Then from the middle of
nowhere this monster like thing just popped out of the water, its
long green body moving slowly along the top of the water. Then I suddenly
thought, "is that the loch Ness monster"?. I carried on watching
it moving along the water, I looked around to see if there was
anybody near me, watching this strange creature, there was nobody.
Remembering the Chinese boxes,
decide how many subordinate clauses are highlighted.
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