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English-5th Grade
Wilson Hall-English Voc.-5th Grade
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| tells whom or what the sentence is about | subject |
| tells what a subject is or does | predicate |
| all the words in the subject | complete subject |
| all the words in the predicate | complete predicate |
| main word(s) in the subject | simple subject |
| the main word(s) that tells what the subject is or does | simple predicate |
| a word used to connect words or groups of words | conjunction |
| connects independent parts or clauses that have equal importance in a sentence | coordinating conjunction |
| joins two clauses, or groups of words in a way that makes one dependant on the other | subordinating conjunction |
| a group of words that has a subject and a verb | clause |
| has a subject and a verb and can stand alone as a sentence | independent clause |
| has a subject and a verb, but cannot stand alone as a sentence | dependent clause |
| contains only one independent, or main clause | simple sentence |
| consists of two or more simple sentences | compound sentence |
| consists of two or more simple subjects | compound subject |
| consists of two or more simple predicates | compound predicate |
| consists of one simple sentence and one or more dependent clauses | complex sentence |
| results when two indepenent clauses are combined with no punctuation, or joined by merely a comma/this must be corrected | run-on sentence |