click below
click below
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Grammar Terms Review
Stack #32052
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| declarative sentence | makes a statement |
| interrogative sentence | asks a question |
| imperative sentence | commands or requests |
| exclamatory sentence | can either be a statement or command |
| simple subject | names the person or thing the sentence is about |
| simple predicate | tells what the subject is or does |
| complete subject | tells what the sentence is about |
| complete predicate | tells what the subject is or does |
| compound subject | contains two or more subjects usually joined by and or or |
| compund predicate | has two or more predicates usually joined by and, or, or but |
| sentence | expresses a complete thought |
| fragment | a group of words punctuated like a sentence but not a complete thought |
| understood (you) | the subject in an imperative sentence |
| independent clause | a group of words with a subject and a predicate that expresses a complete thought and can stand by itself |
| dependent clause | cannot stand alone |
| adverb clause | a subordinate clause that modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb |
| adjective clause | a subordinate clause used as an adjective to modify a noun or pronoun |
| subordinating conjunction (examples) | after, before, since, until, as |
| relative pronouns (examples) | who, whom, whose, which, that |
| complex sentence | a sentence with one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses |