Sentence Basics
A sentence must start with this and end with punctuation.
What is a capital letter?
This type of sentence is made up of only one independent clause.
What is a simple sentence?
You must use a comma between items in a list when you are listing this many items.
What is 3 or more?
This is a group of words without both a subject and a verb
What is a phrase?
A complete sentence must include these two things.
What are a subject and a verb?
This type of sentence is made up of two independent clauses joined by a comma and a coordinating conjunction or a semicolon.
What is a compound sentence?
You use a comma before this type of conjunction when joining two independent clauses.
What is a coordinating conjunction?
This is a group of words with both a subject and a verb that makes sense by itself.
What is an independent clause?
This is a group of words without a subject and verb that describes a verb, adjective, or adverb?
What is an adverb phrase?
This is an incomplete sentence.
What is a fragment?
This type of sentence is made up of one independent clause and one dependent clause.
What is a complex sentence?
You do NOT place a comma before this type of conjunction.
What is a subordinating conjunction?
This is a group of words without both a subject and a verb that does not make sense on its own.
What is a dependent clause?
This is a group of words with a subject and a verb that is used as the subject or object of a sentence.
What is a noun clause?
This is what you get when you join two or more sentences incorrectly.
What is a run-on?
This type of sentence is made up of two independent clauses and one dependent clause.
What is a compound-complex sentence?
When a dependent clause is placed in this position in the sentence, you use a comma after the dependent clause.
What is the beginning of the sentence?
What is an adjective phrase?
This is how you fix a misplaced modifier.
What is rearrange the order of the sentence so that the modifier is as close to the word it modifies as possible?
This is a specific type of run-on where only a comma is used to separate two independent clauses.
What is a comma splice?
These two types of words can be used to introduce a dependent clause.
What are subordinating conjunctions and relative pronouns?
These two rules help you determine whether to use a comma between two adjectives or not.
What is switching the position of the adjectives and adding the word "and" between the adjectives.
This is a group of words with both a subject and a verb that starts with a subordinating conjunction and describes a verb.
What is an adverb clause?
This is how you fix a dangling modifier.
What is rewrite the sentence to add the word that is being modified?