Grammar: Clauses and Phrases
An __________________clause contains a subject, a verb, and a complete thought. It can stand alone as a sentence.
What is independent?
Use a comma after an __________________________(introductory word, phrase, or clause).
What is opener?
If you leave a dependent clause or a phrase by itself, what sentence error do you create?
adj. unfriendly; inclined to anger
n. the highest point of something
A _______________________ clause contains a subject and a verb, but it does not contain a complete thought. It cannot stand alone as a sentence.
What is dependent?
Use a comma to set off a nonessential phrase or clause that _________________________ the flow of a sentence.
Interrupts
A ____________________________ occurs when two sentences are improperly connected.
What is run-on sentence?
adj. relating to hostile opposition
adj. extremely bad
A ____________________ is a word group that does not contain its own subject and verb. It cannot stand alone as a sentence.
Use a comma to set off a ___________________________________ - a phrase that is added after an independent clause and is preceded by a comma.
What is closer?
A ____________________________ occurs when two sentences are improperly connected with a comma.
adj. run-down, sordid, or sleazy
What is squalid?
The acronym AAAWWUBBIS helps you to remember the subordinating conjunctions. If you put an AAAWWUBBIS in front of a sentence, the sentence becomes a ______________________________ clause.
What is dependent?
Name three times you DON'T automatically use a comma.
1. If a dependent clause comes second.
2. Just because you see one of the FANBOYS
3. To set off an essential phrase or clause.
List the two common causes of a run-on sentence.
What are:
1. Lack of punctuation
2. Comma splice
adj. to be vulnerable (to something)
What is susceptible?
(Without looking), name all of the words that make up AAAWWUBBIS.
after, although, as, when, while, until, because, before, if, since
Name the 7 uses of a comma.
What are: Opener, interrupter, closer, series, compound sentence, quotation, and addresses.
List the four common causes of a sentence fragment
What are:
1. Missing a subject or verb
2. Dependent clause left alone
3. Phrase left alone
4. Starting a sentence with "And, Which, But, Or, Such as"
What is demur?
adj. one-sided
What is unilateral?