Sentence Structure
Terms
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- clause
- a group of words that has both a subject and a verb
- complex sentence
- one independent clause and and least one dependent clause
- independent clause
- a group of words that has a subject/verb and a complete thought
- coordinating conjunctions
- used to join words, phrases or sentences (FANBOYS) for, and nor, but, or yet, so
- imperative sentence
- gives a command; its subject is you undestood
- phrase
- a group of words that does not have both a subject and a verb
- dependent clause
- a group of words with a subject and verb that cannot stand alone
- compound/ complex sentence
- two independent clauses and at least one dependent clause
- subordinating conjunctions
- used to join a dependent clause to an independent clause (if, when, while, because, as if, because, unless, although and many more)
- interrogative sentence
- asks a question (?)
- declarative sentence
- makes a statement
- simple sentence
- one independent clause
- compound sentence
- two independent clauses joined by a comma and conjunction or a semicolon
- relative pronouns
- joins a dependent clause to an independent clause (who, whom, whose, which, that and all of the W's + ever)
- exclamatory
- shows emotion or excitement (!)