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Most students who need a sentence structure quiz with answers want to confirm they can spot subjects, predicates and clauses before a test. A quiz works best when each question targets one concept and the answer explains the reasoning.

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Example sentence structure quiz questions with answers
Identify the independent clause in: 'Although the bell rang, the students stayed in their seats.''the students stayed in their seats.' The first clause starts with 'although', which makes it dependent.
True or false: 'Running to the bus stop' is a complete sentence.False. It has no finite verb telling what the subject did, so it is a fragment.
What type of sentence is 'She studied, and she passed the exam'?Compound. Two independent clauses are joined by the coordinating conjunction 'and'.
Is this a run-on? 'The lab report was late I forgot to attach the data.'Yes. Two independent clauses are joined with no comma or conjunction, so a period or semicolon belongs after 'late'.
In 'The dog that barked all night kept the neighbors awake,' what is the simple subject?'dog'. The clause 'that barked all night' modifies the subject but is not part of the simple subject.
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