TSA Writing Skills Assessment
Restrictive and Nonrestrictive
Phrases and Clauses
A ______________ phrase or clause provides information that is necessary to identify
specifically what is being described. - ✔✔restrict
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TSA Writing Skills Assessment
Restrictive and Nonrestrictive
Phrases and Clauses
A ______________ phrase or clause provides information that is necessary to identify
specifically what is being described. - ✔✔restrictive
A ____________________ phrase or clause provides information that is incidental to
the meaning of the sentence. - ✔✔nonrestrictive
_______________ phrases and clauses are not separated from the rest of the sentence
by commas. - ✔✔restrictive
________________ phrases and clauses are separated from the rest of the sentence
by commas. - ✔✔nonrestrictive
Restrictive or Nonrestrictive
The blue house that he built on a hill is quite large. - ✔✔restrictive
The sentence is written about a man who built several blue houses but only one on a
hill. Therefore, the phrase that he built on a hill is essential for knowing which blue
house is being referred to. The phrase is therefore restrictive and is not separated from
the rest of the sentence by commas.
Restrictive or Nonrestrictive
The blue house, which he built on a hill, is quite large. - ✔✔nonrestrictive
This example is written about a man who built only one blue house, and it happens to
be on a hill. Therefore, which he built on a hill is not essential for knowing which house
is
being referred to. The phrase is therefore nonrestrictive and is separated from the rest
of the sentence by commas.
Restrictive or Nonrestrictive
Pat, who won the prize, deserves our
congratulations. - ✔✔nonrestrictive
In this sentence, the person to be congratulated is identified as Pat, and the clause who
won the prize is not essential for identifying the person. The clause is therefore
nonrestrictive and is separated from the rest of the sentence by
commas.
Restrictive or Nonrestrictive
We should congratulate the student who won the prize. - ✔✔restrictive
We should congratulate the student who won the prize.
In this sentence the clause who won the prize is essential for indicating the person who
should be congratulated. The clause is therefore restrictive and is not separated from
the rest of the sentence by commas.
Definition:
A word or phrase used to assert an action or state of being. - ✔✔Verb
Definition:
The ________ of a verb shows whether the subject performs an action (active voice) or
receives it (passive voice). - ✔✔voice
Active or Passive Voice
The consultant wrote a proposal. - ✔✔Active
Active or Passive Voice
The proposal was written by the consultant. - ✔✔Passive
The tense of a verb shows the time of the action of the verb. There are an active and a
passive form of all tenses in English. The six English verb tenses are: - ✔✔1. Simple
Present
2. Present Perfect
3. Simple Past
4. Past Perfect
5. Future
6. Future Perfect
Examples of Active Voice, Simple Present verb tense are: - ✔✔she takes; he is taking
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