Clauses
A group of words that includes a subject and a verb, and forms a sentence or part of a sentence
What is clause?
Words commonly used to connect clauses.
What are conjunctions?
A verb acting as a different part of speech in a sentence
What is verbal?
A word or group of words used before a noun, pronoun, or noun phrase to show direction, time, place, location, spatial relationships, or to introduce an object
What is a preposition?
A sentence consisting of a single independent clause.
What is a simple sentence?
A group of words that contains a subject and verb but does not express a complete thought
What is dependent clause?
Joins together words, phrases, and independent clauses, typically using "FANBOYS"
What is coordinating conjunction?
A verb + "ing" used as a noun
What is gerund phrase?
A group of words that begins with a preposition and ends with a noun, pronoun, or noun phrase.
What is a prepositional phrase?
A sentence consisting of two or more independent clauses.
What is compound sentence?
A group of words that contains a subject and verb and expresses a complete thought
What is independent clause?
Introducing the start of a dependent clause
What is subordinating conjunction?
The word "to" + a verb
What is infinitive phrase?
Where is a preposition located?
What is -- directly before the word or phrase that it relates to?
A sentence that contains an independent clause and at least one dependent clause.
What is a complex sentence?
Another name for dependent clause
What is subordinate clause?
Conjunctions coming in word pairs to make comparisons
What is correlative conjunctions?
Adjective phrase headed by a participle, which is a verb in a form that has functions of both verbs and adjectives
What is participle phrase?
Behind Josh's house, there is a dog.
Identify the prepositional phrase, then identify the preposition, object, and modifier that is in the prepositional phrase.
Prepositional phrase - Behind Josh's house
Preposition - Behind
Object - house
Modifier - Josh's
A sentence consisting of two or more independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses.
What is a compound-complex sentence?