Types of Sentences
makes a statement and ends with a period
What is a declarative sentence?
All the words in the subject that tell whom or what the sentence is about
What is a Complete Subject?
has two or more simple subjects that share the same predicate.
What is Compound Subject
word that joins words, phrases, or simple sentences
What is the Coordinating Conjunction?
asks a question and ends with a question mark
what is a Interrogative sentence
The main word or words in the complete subject
What is a Simple Subject?
has two or more simple predicates that share the same subject
What is Compound Predicate?
a group of words that expresses a complete thought
What is a Simple sentence?
gives a command or makes a request and usually ends with a period.
What is a Imperative sentence?
ALL the words that tell what the subject is or does
What is a Complete Predicate?
By using what, we can combine sentences to avoid repetition and eliminate extra words in our writing
What is compound predicates?
Contains two or more simple sentence joined by a comma and coordinating conjunction (and, but or or)
What is a Compound sentence?
shows strong feeling and ends with an exclamation point.
What is a exclamatory sentence?
the main word or words in the complete predicate
Simple Predicate
The Compound Subject in the statement: The tired man and his loyal dog trudged down the street.
"Trained technicians place a tiny bead of nacre and a piece of living mantle tissue into a baby oyster" is a what sentence?
What is Simple Sentence?
The sentence "Here comes a swarm of bees" is a
What is a exclamatory sentence?
The Complete Predicate in the sentence: The tired, elderly man trudged down the street.
What is trudged down the street.
if the clause expresses a complete thought because it makes sense and can stand alone
What is Independent clause?
The sentence "The train arrived on time, and the passengers boarded quickly." is a what sentence?
What is a compound sentence?