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Merritt grammar
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A group of words which express a complete | sentence |
| a group of words punctuated like a sentence but not expressing a complete thought | fragment |
| a sentence that ends with a period | declaritive |
| a sentence that ends with a question mark | interrogative |
| a sentence that commands and ends with a period or an exclamation point | imparative |
| a sentene that ends with a exclmation point | exclamatory |
| names the person or thing in the sentence and does not include articles or modifying words | simple subject |
| tells what the sentence is about and may be one word or many | complex subject |
| a part of the sentence that can stand on its own | independent clause |
| a part of the sentence that needs help to stand on its own | dependent clause |
| contains two independent clauses closely together, conjunction usually joins the two together, and there is a comma after the first clause before the conjunction | compound sentence |
| containes one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses | complex sentence |
| person, place, thing or idea | Noun |
| a, an, the | article |
| names a particular person, place or thing; spelled with capital letters | proper noun |
| do not name particular person, place or thing | common noun |
| modivies a noun or pronoun; gives specific information by telling what kind, how many, which one | adjective |
| expresses an action or state of being | verb |
| modivies a verb, adjective, or another verb; indicates time, place and manner | adverb |
| expresses strong feeling or sudden emotion, followed by an exclamation point or comma, most effective when not OVERUSED | interjection |
| joins groups of words together; and, but, or, nor, for, yet, not only, but also, although, as, as if, because, while | conjunction |
| a word or group of words that shows position, direction, or how two words or idesas are related (above, below, etc) | prepostition |