Category 1
Independent clause
Group of words that contains a subject and verb and expresses a complete thought. An independent clause is a sentence
Fragment
A word, phrase, or clause that does not form a full sentence; incomplete thought or incomplete sentence.
Dependent Clause
Group of words that contains a subject and verb but does not express a complete thought. A dependent clause cannot be a sentence.
Homophones
These are words that are pronounced the same, but have different meanings.
FANBOYS
Coordinating conjunctions for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so
Adjective
A word that describes a noun
Preposition
A word that shows the relationship of a noun or pronoun to another word
Adverb
A word that modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb
Verb
An action word
Noun
A person, place, thing, or idea
Article
Conjuction
A word used to join words or groups of words (FANBOYS)
Interjection
A word that expresses emotion
Sentence
A group of words that has a subject, a predicate, and makes a complete thought
Pronoun
A word that takes the place of a noun
Subject
the noun or subject pronoun that the sentence is about
Simple Sentence
A sentence with an independent clause
Predicate
tells what the subject is or does
Complex sentence
A sentence with an independent clause attached to a dependent clause
Compound Sentence
A sentence with two or more independent clauses