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clauses
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| independent clauses | a group of words that contains a subject and verb and expresses a complete thought |
| dependent clauses | a group of words that contains a subject and a verb—that cannot stand on its own as a sentence. |
| Simple Sentence | a group of words that contains at least one subject and at least one verb |
| Compound Sentence | generally joins two simple sentences together with a coordinate conjunction |
| Complex Sentence | a sentence with tow or more subjects and a verb followed by a sodortating conjunction |
| Compound-Complex Sentence | a type of sentence that combines elements from both complex and compound sentences |