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What is a clause? A sentence that has a subject and verb.
list the two types of clause? independent and dependent.
what is an independent clause? it has a subject and a predicate.
What is a dependent clause? It has a subject and predicate but does not complete the thought.
List three common subordinators? subordinate, relative and noun clauses.
Example of a independent clause? Sue ate a piece of candy.
example of a dependent clause? When sue ate a piece of candy.
what is a phrase? A long group of words that never have a noun/verb pair together.
List two types of phrases. Prepositional phrase and a participle phrase.
Give three examples of a prepositional phrase. Around the care, near the house, over the road.
Give three examples of a participle phrase. Tired of his arguing, Running in the hallway, Delighted by the surprise.
Define simple sentence. Must have subjects/predicates, but it only completes one thought. It has one independent clause with a prepositional phrase.
Example of a simple sentence with a phrase. John went to the park. John, Bubba, and Mary went for a very long walk in the crowded and loud park.
Example of a simple sentence with a compound sentence. The new boy joined the club and made several friends.
define complex sentence . a dependent clause has both a subject and predicate but does not express a complete thought and cannot stand alone.
list FANBOYS. For, and, nor, but, or, yet so.
What is another name for a dependent clause? sentence fragment.
Example of a complex sentence - dependent clause first. Because it feels good, it eat pizza.
Define compound sentence. FANBOYS, commas unless it is very short.
Example of a complex sentence - independent clause first it ate pizza because it feels good
what is a fragment sentence it is a part of the sentence written as if it was a complete sentence.
example of a fragment sentence missing preticute the students on roweling thunder
example of a fragment sentence missing subject jumping off tables in the cafeteria.
what is a run on sentence I love to ski, the runs on bogus are amazing.
list three ways to fix a run on sentence add a period, semi colon, or make a compound sentence.
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