Parts of Speech
A person, place or thing.
What is a noun?
Independent and dependent clauses.
What are the two types of clauses?
The two things required to make a sentence.
What is a subject and a predicate?
A word or phase modifying or describing a noun.
What is an adjective?
A clause that can be a sentence on its own.
What is an independent clause?
A sentence with a subject and a predicate.
What is a simple sentence?
Something you do.
What is a verb?
A clause that cannot be a sentence on its own.
What is a dependent clause?
A sentence made up of one independent clause and one dependent clause.
What is a complex sentence?
The noun performing the action in a sentence.
What is the subject of a sentence?
A simple sentence contains only this type of clause.
What is an independent clause?
A sentence made up of two independent clauses.
What is a compound sentence?
The main verb of a sentence.
What is a predicate?
A comma is not needed when you combine an independent and dependent clause in this order.
What is independent + dependent clause?
Type 1 -- formed with a semi-colon.
Type 2 -- formed with a coordinating conjunction (FANBOYS).
What are the two types of compound sentences?