Basics
What or Whom the sentence is about
What is a subject?
A subject, a verb (predicate), and a complete thought
What is a sentence?
Anthony jump/jumps high.
jumps
What are the FANBOYS?
They separate elements in a sentence.
What is a comma?
What the subject is doing in the sentence (or being)
What is a verb?
It has one independent clause and one dependent clause
What is a complex sentence?
Some of the sugar is/are on the floor.
is
What is a conjunction?
What is parallelism?
A group of words that has a preposition, an object, and any word to modify that object
What is a prepositional phrase?
A group of words with a subject and a verb
What is a clause?
The jury has/have awarded custody to the grandmother.
has
It goes before the coordinating conjunction
Where does the comma go when using FANBOYS?
It has two independent clauses and at least one dependent clause.
What is a compound-complex sentence?
A group of words
What is a phrase?
A sentence that is missing either its subject or its verb
What is a fragment?
Every man, woman, and child participates/participate in the fire drill.
participates
They join independent and dependent clauses.
What is a subordinating conjunction?
They can take the place of a coordinating conjunction.
What is a semi-colon?
Contains a subject and a verb and can stand on its own
What is an independent clause?
Occurs when independent clauses are not joined properly
What is a run-on sentence?
Neither the dogs or the cat is/are going outside.
is
We would only have simple sentences.
Why do we use conjunctions?
The subject of the sentence performs the action.
What is active voice?