This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Sentence Structure > Sentence Types > Simple Sentences – Quiz 18 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Simple Sentences Quiz 18 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Identify the group of words:My sister and I like to eat pepperoni pizza. A) Fragment (incomplete). B) Simple sentence. C) Run-on. D) Compound sentence. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simple sentence. 2. Make these two simple sentences into one compound sentence. Do you like the blue one? Do you prefer the green one? A) Do you like the blue or green one?. B) Do you like the blue or green?. C) Do you like the blue one, or do you prefer the green one?. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Do you like the blue one, or do you prefer the green one?. 3. What Kind of sentence is this? Although it was sunny, the woods were dark, and Sue stumbled down the hill. A) Compound. B) Complex. C) Compound-complex. D) Simple. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Compound-complex. 4. Identify the type of sentence:Her plate fell off the table and broke. A) Simple. B) Compound. C) Complex. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simple. 5. To find the verb, a student should ask the question: A) To what extent? How many times?. B) Who or What?. C) When?. D) Can I t?. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Can I t?. 6. Afterward, I came home and put the groceries away. A) Simple. B) Compound. C) Complex. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simple. 7. What is the V (verb) in this sentence:They played each other. A) They. B) Each. C) Other. D) Played. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Played. 8. Sandy drove to the market and the dog went with her. A) It is an example of a simple sentence. B) It is not a example of a simple sentence. C) I dont know. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It is not a example of a simple sentence. 9. Identify the following group of words:I laughed and ran back home. A) Compound sentence. B) Run-on. C) Simple sentence with compound predicate. D) Simple sentence with compound subject. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simple sentence with compound predicate. 10. What is the HELPING VERB in the sentence below:The members of the team will not be here in the afternoon. A) Members. B) Team. C) Will. D) Be. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Will. 11. What is the verb in this sentence? The classroom is small. A) Small. B) The classroom. C) Is. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Is. 12. How many clauses are in this sentence:We visited a museum last week. A) 1. B) 2. C) 3. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1. 13. Which sentence follows the formula SSV (why): A) He played a game and watched a movie at home. B) She danced until midnight. C) He and his family are excited for the movie. D) Rawan and Rzan made kebab and ate it with their friends. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He and his family are excited for the movie. 14. We ate a snack and talked on the way there. A) SSV. B) SV. C) SSVV. D) SVV. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) SVV. 15. Complete the sentence with the coordinating conjunction that make sense.Roberto plays the violin well, ..... the trumpet is his favorite instrument. A) But. B) So. C) Yet. D) For. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) But. 16. All the children in the class did their homework.'did' is the ..... in the sentence. A) Subject. B) Verb. C) Object. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Verb. 17. When you go to the store. A) Simple. B) Complex. C) Compound. D) Fragment. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fragment. 18. Identify the complete predicate in the sentence below:I enjoy watching football on every Sunday. A) I enjoy. B) Enjoy watching football on every Sunday. C) On every Sunday. D) Watching football on every Sunday. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Enjoy watching football on every Sunday. 19. After we read "Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, " we read "The Masque of the Red Death." A) Simple sentence. B) Compound sentence. C) Complex sentence. D) Compound-complex sentence. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Complex sentence. 20. Identify the subject in the sentence:Babies nap every day. A) Everday. B) Nap. C) Babies. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Babies. 21. Tomatoes grow very well in our garden. A) Main noun. B) Subject. C) Main verb. D) Predicate. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Main verb. 22. Read the two simple sentences below. Choose the compound sentence that joins them with the right punctuation. A) She'll learn to play the piano she'll learn to play the trumpet. B) She'll learn to play the piano, she'll learn to play the trumpet. C) She'll learn to play the piano, or she'll learn to play the trumpet. D) She'll learn to play the piano or she'll learn to play the trumpet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) She'll learn to play the piano, or she'll learn to play the trumpet. 23. The following sentence is a compound sentence:Brynn is learning to walk, so she falls down a lot. What are the simple predicates? A) Is, so. B) Learning, falls. C) Is, falls. D) Learning, falls. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Is, falls. 24. Which option makes this sentence into a COMPOUND sentence correctly? Joe likes to ski. Lily likes to snowboard. A) Joe likes to ski and snowboard. B) Joe likes to ski, but Lily likes to snowboard. C) Joe likes to ski Lily likes to snowboard. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Joe likes to ski, but Lily likes to snowboard. 25. How many independent cluases are in a simple sentence. A) 2. B) 0. C) 3. D) 1. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1. 26. In the park, Sally and Alex were playing ball. What sentence is this? A) SSVV. B) SVV. C) SV. D) SSV. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) SSV. 27. Which word is functioning like a verb in the sentence below? Singing is my favorite thing to do at night. A) Night. B) Do. C) Is. D) Singing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Is. 28. How many clauses are in this sentence:I was feeling really tired, so I decided to take a nap. A) 1. B) 2. C) 3. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 2. 29. What is the best way to combine these sentences into a compound sentence:I love apple pie.I hate lemon pie. A) Although I hate lemon pie, I love apple pie. B) I love apple pie, but I hate lemon pie. C) Lemon pie is gross. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) I love apple pie, but I hate lemon pie. 30. Add an independent clause to make this a complex sentence. When you finish your assignment, ..... A) Take an AR test. B) Class. C) Skip ahead. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Take an AR test. 31. We recently read the short story Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. A) Simple sentence. B) Complex sentence. C) Compound-complex sentence. D) Compound sentence. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simple sentence. 32. What is the verb in the following sentence? The student ran to his locker. A) Student. B) Locker. C) The. D) Ran. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ran. 33. Today, I baked a delicious chocolate cake. A) Simple. B) Compound. C) Complex. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simple. 34. Read the following sentence:Efficient train service will decrease traffic congestion. Identify the predicate. A) Efficient. B) Train service. C) Will decrease traffic congestion. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Will decrease traffic congestion. 35. Ahza ran in front of the car. What is the verb? A) Ahza. B) Ran. C) Car. D) Front. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ran. 36. What conjunction would you use to join the 2 simple sentences? It is called a horned toad. It is really a lizard. A) And. B) But. C) Or. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) But. 37. Identify the conjunction (if one is present) and the type of sentence:We painted the walls last week, but we did not finish. A) Painted, complex. B) But, simple. C) But, compound. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) But, compound. 38. Is this sentence compound, complex, or simple? :Although Danny knows a lot about fishing, he isn't very good at it. A) Compound. B) Simple. C) Complex. D) Toes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Complex. 39. What type of sentence is this? I can't believe we won that game! A) Interrogative. B) Declarative. C) Exclamatory. D) Imperative. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Exclamatory. 40. A subject of a sentence is usually a ..... A) Noun/complete thought. B) Noun/verb. C) Noun/pronoun. D) Noun/proper noun. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Noun/pronoun. 41. Which pronoun should be used in the sentence below? My mom and dad bought me a phone ..... are the best! A) They. B) Them. C) She. D) He. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They. 42. What is the dependent clause in the compound-complex sentence? Since they had so much fin at the party, Shay and Jason stayed late, but they were tired in the morning. A) Since they had so much fun at the party. B) Shay and Jason stayed late. C) They were tired in the morning. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Since they had so much fun at the party. 43. SVV simple sentences have ..... A) 2 subjects, 1 verb. B) 1 subject, 1 verb. C) 1 subject, 2 verbs. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1 subject, 2 verbs. 44. After he drove the new car, he knew he had to buy it. A) Simple Sentence. B) Compound Sentence. C) Complex Sentence. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Compound Sentence. 45. The correct word order for a statement is A) Subject, verb, object. B) Verb, subject, object. C) Object, subject, verb. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Subject, verb, object. 46. Nazhan saw Nurin put the letter away. What is the subject? A) Nurin. B) Nazhan. C) Saw. D) Letter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nazhan. 47. Read this paragraph. What mistake can you see? My moved family to a new apartment in Larkin. The building on a beautiful street is with lots of trees. There a supermarket is nearby, so buying food is easy. The is train station close. Can I walk there in four minutes. A) No mistakes. B) Mistakes with capital letters. C) Mistakes with full-stops. D) Subject and verb in the wrong order. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Subject and verb in the wrong order. 48. She finished her Christmas shopping, but she hadn't wrapped her gifts. A) Fragment. B) Compound. C) Complex. D) Simple. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Compound. 49. Take away the dependent clause to make this a simple sentence. Although no one saw Kyle take the pencil, he still felt guilty. A) He still felt guilty. B) No one saw Kyle do it. C) No one saw Kyle take the pencil. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He still felt guilty. 50. What is the COMPLETE subject of this sentence? My mom and dad went to Hawaii. A) Mom and dad. B) My mom and dad. C) Went. D) Went to Hawaii. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) My mom and dad. 51. The theater was full of excited kids. A) Subject. B) Main noun(s). C) Main verb(s). D) Predicate. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Predicate. 52. What is the predicate in this sentence? I waited for the train. A) Waited. B) The train. C) For. D) I. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Waited. 53. Which of these is a complete simple sentence (has a subject + predicate)? A) I ran to the playground. B) My sister is taller than me, so she can reach the top shelf. C) I was hungry, and I was tired. D) Finish your work, or you will have to go to study hall. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) I ran to the playground. 54. What part of the sentence tells the action of the sentence? A) Predicate. B) Linking verb. C) Subject. D) Noun. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Predicate. 55. How many subjects are in this simple sentence? Yesterday, our class took a grammar test for homework. A) 1. B) 2. C) 3. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1. 56. What is the simple subject on the given sentence? A large, gray rock fell on my car. A) Rock. B) Car. C) Gray rock. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rock. 57. Choose the correct formula for the sentence.My grandfather and grandfather want to travel around the world. A) SSVV. B) SSV. C) SV. D) SVV. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) SSV. 58. What conjunction would you use to join the 2 simple sentences? They have to peep loudly. Their parents won't hear them. A) And. B) But. C) Or. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Or. 59. All the children in the class study math. A) Subject. B) Predicate. C) Preposition. D) Prepositional phrase. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Prepositional phrase. 60. Which clause can stand alone A) An independent clause. B) A dependent clause. 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