Language Arts Definitions Test
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- Sentence
- a group of words that express a complete thought
- Declaritive sentence
- makes a statement; ends with a period
- Interrogative sentence
- asks a question; ends with a question mark
- Exclamatory sentence
- expresses strong feeling; ends with an exclamation
- Imperative sentence
- gives a command or makes a request; ends with a period
- subject part
- names who and/or what a sentenc is about
- Predicate part
- tells what the subject does or has. It can also describe what the subject is/is like
- Sentence fragment
- does not express a complete thought, It may also be missing a subject, predicate, or both
- complete subject
- includes all of the words in the subject part of a sentence
- complete predicate
- includes all of the words in the predicate part of a sentence
- simple subject
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the main/most important word/group of words in the complete subject.
**When 2 simple subjects are joined by the words "and" or "both, and", the subject is plural** - simple predicate
- main word/group of words in the complete predicate
- noun
- names a person, place, thing, or idea
- pronoun
- takes the place of 1 or more nouns
- verb
- word that expresses an action or state of being
- compound subject
- 2 or more simple sunjects that share a predicate; joined by "and both", "and,or, either", "or, neither", "nor, but"
- compound predicate
- 2 or more simples predicates (verbs) sharing a subject; joined by "and, both", "and, or, either", "or neither", "nor, but"
- simple sentence
- has one subject and one predicate
- compound sentence
- a sentence that contains 2 or more simple sentences joined by a comma and a coordinating conjunction or by a semicolon
- run-on sentence
- 2 or more sentences incorrectly written as one sentence
- coordinating conjunctions
- and, but, or, for, so, yet, nor