Sentence Types and Word Order
A command or prompt.
What is an imperative sentence?
Does not contain a skeleton.
What is a phrase?
An organized unit of thought.
What is a paragraph?
Main ideas first, details later.
What is a loose sentence style?
These make a statement.
What are declarative sentences?
Contains a skeleton
What is a clause?
The main idea of the paragraph.
What is a topic sentence?
Details first, main idea last.
What is a periodic sentence?
These ask a question
What are interrogative sentences?
Prepositional, verbal, single part of speech.
What are the 3 phrase types?
When every sentence supports and develops the main idea.
What is paragraph unity?
Two well-matched clauses
What is a balanced sentence style?
Subject first, then predicate.
What is natural word order?
Independent and dependent
The two types of clauses.
When thoughts are presented in a well-organized way.
What is paragraph unity?
Details presented in order of time.
What is chronological order?
The complete subject comes between two parts of the complete predicate.
What is mixed word order?
"The professor's beard was awesome" is an example of this.
An independent clause.
Good sentence order and sentence transitions are a way to achieve this.
Paragraph coherence.
Presents details in order of space.
What is spatial order?