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Clauses
Four Kinds of Sentence Structure
Subject Verb
Sentence structures
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A group of words that contains a verb and its subject.
What is a clause?
100
Simple, Compound, Complex and Compound-Complex
What are the four kinds of sentence structure.
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What the sentence is about.
What is a subject?
100
The number of independent clauses a simple sentence contains.
What is 1?
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Another name for an independent clause
What is a main clause?
200
Sentence structure that consists of one independent clause.
What is a compound sentence?
200
A word that shows action, commonly seen paired with the subject of the sentence.
What is a verb?
300
Another name for a dependent clause
What is a subordinate clause?
300
Sentence structure that consists of two or more independent clauses joined by a comma and coordinating conjunction.
What is a simple sentence?
300
A set that consists of one subject and one verb; normally describes what the subject is doing.
What is subject-verb pair?
300
Number of independent clauses in this example. "The cat slept in the afternoon sun, and he played in the leaves."
What is 2?
400
Expresses a complete thought and can stand alone.
What is an independent clause?
400
Sentence that consists of one independent clause, and one or more subordinate or dependent clauses
What is a complex sentence?
400
In the sentence, "The cat slept in the afternoon sun", the word "cat" is the.....
What is the subject?
500
Begins with special introductory clause and is not a complete thought.
What is a dependent clause?
500
Sentence that consists of two or more independent clauses and one or more subordinate clauses.
What is a compound-complex sentence?
500
In this sentence, "The cat slept in the afternoon sun", the word "slept" is a....
What is verd