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Magic Lens Clauses
more grammatical and clause definitions
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Clause | A group of words that has a subject and its predicate |
| Independent clause | A clause that is a complete thought |
| Dependent clause | A clause that is not a complete thought, but needs to be connected to an independent clause |
| The four clause structures | Simple, compound, complex, compound-complex |
| Simple Sentence | A sentece with one independent clause |
| Compound Sentence | A sentence with two or more independent clauses |
| Complex Sentence | A sentence with an independent clause attached to a dependent clause |
| Compound-Complex Sentence | A sentence with a compound structure and a complex structure |
| The four sentence purposes | declarative, imperative, interrogative, exclamatory |
| Declarative Sentence | A sentence that declares or makes a statement |
| Imperative Sentence | A sentence that is imperious, that makes a command |
| Interrogative Sentence | A sentence that interrogates, that asks a question |
| Exclamatory Sentence | A sentence that exclaims, that has an exclamation point |