"Who" or "what" a sentence is about, and is a noun or pronoun.
What is a subject?
A part of speech which names a person, place, thing or idea.
What is a noun?
A group of words which doesn't have a subject or verb and is not a full sentence.
What is a phrase?
A group of words which includes a subject and a verb.
What is a clause?
A punctuation mark which can separate items in a list.
What is a comma? ,
What the subject is or does and is an action.
What is a predicate?
An action word, or a state of being.
What is a verb?
A type of phrase which has nouns, and words like nouns.
What is a noun phrase?
A type of clause which cannot be an entire sentence by itself.
What is a dependent clause?
A punctuation mark which can introduce a list.
What is a colon? :
What the subject does something to.
What is an object?
A type of phrase which contains verbs and any words that come after them.
What is a verb phrase?
A type of clause which can be an entire sentence by itself.
What is an independent clause?
A punctuation mark which separates long items in a list.
What is a semicolon? ;
A sentence with more than one subject.
What is a compound subject?
A type of phrase that adds onto a sentence, answering when, where, which one, and which direction.
What is a prepositional phrase?
A punctuation mark which can connect two related complete sentences.
What is a semicolon? ;
A subject with more than one predicate.
What is a compound predicate?
A word that comes before a noun, like "the", "an", or "a".
What is an article?
A type of phrase that a predicate is always in.
What is a verb phrase?
A punctuation mark which can cause suspense.
What is a dash? --