Sentence Types
This type of sentence makes a statement and ends with a period.
What is a declarative sentence?
The complete subject includes the noun and all of these words connected to it.
What are describing words?
A group of words that works together but does not contain both a subject and a verb.
What is a phrase?
This is a group of words containing a subject and a verb.
What is a clause?
This type of clause acts like an adjective and often begins with a relative pronoun.
What is an adjective clause?
This type of sentence asks a question.
What is an interrogative sentence?
In "The tall basketball player scored the winning point," this is the complete subject.
What is "The tall basketball player"?
This phrase begins with a preposition and ends with a noun or pronoun.
What is a prepositional phrase?
This clause can stand alone as a complete sentence.
What is an independent clause?
In "The firefighter who helped us was kind," this noun is the antecedent.
What is "firefighter"?
"Please close the window." is an example of this type of sentence.
What is an imperative sentence?
This contains the verb and all words that tell what the subject does or is.
What is the complete predicate?
"Running quickly" in "Running quickly, the athlete crossed the finish line" is this type of phrase.
What is a participial phrase?
This clause has a subject and verb but cannot stand alone.
What is a dependent clause?
This type of clause acts like an adverb and answers questions such as when, why, or under what condition.
What is an adverb clause?
This sentence type shows strong emotion and ends with an exclamation mark.
What is an exclamatory sentence?
In "The tall basketball player scored the winning point," this is the complete predicate.
What is "scored the winning point"?
A phrase beginning with "to + verb" is called this.
What is an infinitive phrase?
Words such as because, although, and since are examples of these.
What are subordinate conjunctions?
When an adverb clause comes first in a sentence, this punctuation mark is usually needed.
What is a comma?
In an imperative sentence, this subject is usually understood but not stated.
What is "you"?
Every sentence must have these two basic parts.
What are a subject and a predicate?
This type of phrase answers questions like how, when, where, or why.
What is an adverb phrase?
This is a dependent clause that describes a noun or pronoun.
What is an adjective clause?
In the sentence "What you said matters," this type of clause serves as the subject.
What is a noun clause?