DEFINITION: used to declare, or state, ideas RULE: states an idea and ends with a period

Interrogative sentence

RULE: asks a question and ends with a question mark

DEFINITION: give commands or directions RULE: gives an order or a direction and ends with either a period or an exclamation mark

DEFINITION: used to express emotions RULE: conveys strong emotion and ends with an exclamation mark

DEFINITION: group of words that is punctuated as a sentence, but missing a subject, verb or complete thought RULE: do not capitalize and punctuate phrases, subordinate clauses, or words in a series as if they were complete sentences

DEFINITION: two or more sentences capitalized and punctuated as if they were a single sentence RULE: use punctuation and conjunctions to correctly join or separate parts of a run-on sentence

RULE: contains a single independent or main clause

RULE: contains two or more main clauses

RULE: consists of one independent or main clause and one or more subordinate clauses

Compound-complex sentence

RULE: consists of two or more independent clauses and one or more subordinate clauses

DEFINITION: placed too far from the wrong word in the sentence RULE: seems to modify the wrong word in the sentence

Dangling modifier (DEFINITION)

DEFINITION: the word that should be modified is missing from the sentence. Dangling modifiers usually come at the beginning of a sentence and are followed by a comma. The subject being modified should come right after the comma

Dangling modifier (RULE)

RULE: seems to modify the wrong word or no word at all because the word it should modify has been omitted from the sentence

DEFINITION: errors in standard English RULE: do not capitalize and punctuate phrases, subordinate clauses, or word in a series as if they were complete sentence

DEFINITION: contains a subject and a verb but does not express a complete thought a cannot stand alone as a sentence. Link it to a main clause to make the sentence complete RULE: a main clause to correct a fragment

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English - Semester 2 - Writing Effective Sentences

Term	Definition
Declarative sentence	DEFINITION: used to declare, or state, ideas RULE: states an idea and ends with a period
Interrogative sentence	RULE: asks a question and ends with a question mark
Imperative sentence	DEFINITION: give commands or directions RULE: gives an order or a direction and ends with either a period or an exclamation mark
Exclamatory sentence	DEFINITION: used to express emotions RULE: conveys strong emotion and ends with an exclamation mark
Fragments	DEFINITION: group of words that is punctuated as a sentence, but missing a subject, verb or complete thought RULE: do not capitalize and punctuate phrases, subordinate clauses, or words in a series as if they were complete sentences
Run-ons	DEFINITION: two or more sentences capitalized and punctuated as if they were a single sentence RULE: use punctuation and conjunctions to correctly join or separate parts of a run-on sentence
Simple sentence	RULE: contains a single independent or main clause
Compound sentence	RULE: contains two or more main clauses
Complex sentence	RULE: consists of one independent or main clause and one or more subordinate clauses
Compound-complex sentence	RULE: consists of two or more independent clauses and one or more subordinate clauses
Misplaced modifier	DEFINITION: placed too far from the wrong word in the sentence RULE: seems to modify the wrong word in the sentence
Dangling modifier (DEFINITION)	DEFINITION: the word that should be modified is missing from the sentence. Dangling modifiers usually come at the beginning of a sentence and are followed by a comma. The subject being modified should come right after the comma
Dangling modifier (RULE)	RULE: seems to modify the wrong word or no word at all because the word it should modify has been omitted from the sentence
Fragments	DEFINITION: errors in standard English RULE: do not capitalize and punctuate phrases, subordinate clauses, or word in a series as if they were complete sentence
Subordinate clause	DEFINITION: contains a subject and a verb but does not express a complete thought a cannot stand alone as a sentence. Link it to a main clause to make the sentence complete RULE: a main clause to correct a fragment

Created by: HanBeth07

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