THE COMPOSITE SENTENCE
I. THE COMPOUND SENTENCE
Part 1. Test Your Knowledge
Answer the questions.
1. What is a sentence?
2. What is a clause?
3. What are the main constituents of a clause?
4. What is a composite sentence?
5. What does a compound sentence consist of?
6. What are the clauses in a compound sentence called?
7. How can such clauses be linked together?
8. What punctuation marks can be used to separate asyndetically joined coordinate clauses?
9. When does the second coordinate clause have inverted word order?
10. What types of coordinate connection do you know?
11. What does copulative coordination imply?
12. What specific relations can the conjunction and imply?
13. How can you use a compound sentence with the conjunction and to express advice, threat or warning?
14. What do compound sentences with disjunctive coordination express?
15. What do disjunctive sentences consist of?
16. What adversative connectors do you know?
17. How are causative-consecutive clauses joined?
18. Which conjunction is a borderline case between coordinators and subordinators?
19. When two coordinate clauses have the same subject, after which coordinators is it possible to omit the second subject?
20. What is the device of simplification which allows us to subtract words from the complete clause structure called?