Vocabulary
A word or word group in the predicate that completes the meaning of linking verb and that identifies or describes the subject.
What is a subject complement?
A group of related words that is used as a single part of speech and that does not contain both a verb and its subject.
What is a phrase?
Participles, gerunds, and infinitives
What are three kinds of verbals?
They are set off by commas.
What is usually done to appositives or appositive phrases that ARE essential to the meaning of the sentence?
When, Where, How, How far, Why, How Often, How long, To what extent, Under what Conditions,
What questions do adverbs answer?
A noun or pronoun placed beside another noun or pronoun to identify or describe it.
What is an appositive?
An independent clause
What is needed in order to complete the meaning of a subordinate clause?
A verb form ending in -ing that is used as a noun
What is a gerund?
Does not express a complete thought and cannot stand by itself as a complete sentence.
What is a subordinate clause?
A noun, pronoun, or word group that tells to who or to what or for whom or for what the action of the verb is done.
What is an indirect object?
A participle or participle phrase placed next to a noun that it is not intended modify.d
What is a dangling participle?
They are set off by commas.
What is usually done to appositive phrases that are NOT essential to the meaning of the sentence.
A verb form that can be used as an adjective.
What is a participle.
Expletives
If a noun clause begins with the words that,whether, or if, what are those words called?
A verb that can be used as a noun, and adjective, or an adverb.
What is an infinitive?
When the words when or where are used to introduce an adjective clause in order to modify a place or time.
What is a relative adverb?
A subordinate clause that modifies a noun or pronoun.
What is a relative clause?
Contains one independent clause and no subordinate clauses.
What is a simple sentence?
Contains two or more independent clauses and at least one subordinate clause.
What is a compound - complex sentence?
Subject, predicate nominative, Direct Object, Object of the preposition, All of the Above
How can a noun clause be used in a sentence?
The word that introduces an adverb clause and shows the relationship between the adverb clause and the word or words that the clause modifies.
What is a subordinate conjunction?
A group of related words that is used as a single part of speech and that does not contain both a verb and its subject.
What is a clause?
Contains two or more independent clauses and no subordinate clauses.
What is a compound sentence?
Simple, compound, complex, compound-complex
What are the four types of sentence structure?
A subordinate clause that modifies a verb, an adjective, or an adverb.
What is an adverb clause?