This modifier provides nonessential details or information.
What is a non-restrictive modifier?
100
This modifier modifies the wrong word.
What is a dangling modifier?
100
A word, phrase, or clause that is vital to the understanding of the sentence.
What is a restrictive modifier?
100
This occurs when a sentence has more than one simple subject.
What is a compound subject?
100
This modifier limits the scope of what it modifies.
What is a limiting modifier?
(almost, hardly, merely, only)
200
This is a phrase that contains a present participle or past participle and acts as an adjective.
What is a participle phrase?
200
This occurs when two negative modifiers modify the same word or phrase.
What is a double negative?
200
Who or what the sentence is about.
What is the subject?
200
This is a phrase containing a preposition, a noun, and often adjectives that modify it.
What is a prepositional phrase?
200
This sentence contains two independent clauses.
What is a compound sentence?
300
This occurs when the subject is acted on.
What is the passive voice?
300
This conveys what the subject does or is. It contains a verb or verb phrase.
What is a predicate?
300
This occurs when a word come between 'to' and the main verb in an infinitive.
What is a split infinitive?
300
This is a run-on sentence in which two independent clauses are connected by only a comma instead of a comma and a conjunction.
What is a comma splice?
300
This sentence consists of two independent clauses joined together without punctuation or a conjunction.
What is a run-on sentence?
400
This is a group of related words containing a subject and a verb. If it does not contain a complete thought, it is not a sentence, but can still be this.
What is a clause?
400
This is an ambiguous modifier- it can modify the the word before or after it, making the meaning of the sentence unclear.
What is a squinting modifier?
400
This sentence contains an independent clause and one or more dependent clauses.
What is a complex sentence?
400
This clause expresses a complete thought.
What is an independent clause?
400
This clause does not contain a complete thought an relies on the rest of the sentence to explain it.
What is a dependent clause?
500
This phrase begins with a preposition and acts as an adverb.
What is an adverb phrase?
500
A group of related words that lacks either a subject or a verb.
What is a phrase?
500
This is a noun phrase containing a gerund.
What is a gerund phrase?
500
This partial sentence is lacking either a subject or a verb.
What is a sentence fragment?
500
It's the rule stating that corresponding phrases or clauses of a sentence must begin and end in the same manner.