TEAS Nursing School Admission Test Practice Test

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Sample Questions

Question 1

What is a run-on sentence?

Answer: A run-on sentence occurs when two or more independent clauses are joined without proper punctuation or a coordinating conjunction.

Question 2

What is a sentence fragment?

Answer: A sentence fragment is an incomplete sentence that lacks a subject, a verb, or a complete thought and cannot stand alone.

Question 3

In the sentence 'Because she studied hard, she passed the exam,' what is 'Because she studied hard'?

Answer: It is a dependent (subordinate) clause because it contains a subject and verb but cannot stand alone as a complete sentence.

Question 4

Which coordinating conjunctions can join two independent clauses when preceded by a comma? (Name the acronym used to remember them.)

Answer: FANBOYS: For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So.

Question 5

What type of sentence contains one independent clause and at least one dependent clause?

Answer: A complex sentence contains one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses connected by a subordinating conjunction.