Commas
What is items in a series?
This type of clause can stand alone and act as a sentence.
What is an independent clause?
This sentence type is another name for an independent clause.
What is a simple sentence?
This part of speech is a person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a noun?
Unlike a clause, a phrase does NOT include these two things.
What are a subject and a verb?
This comma rule is used after a name or title of a person when they are being directly spoken to in the sentence.
What is a direct address (interrupter)?
This type of clause CANNOT stand alone and act as a sentence.
What is a subordinate/dependent clause?
Combining two independent clauses together creates this sentence type.
What is a compound sentence?
The "Thanksgiving" in "Thanksgiving dinner" is an example of this type of part of speech.
What is an adjective?
This type of phrase is set off by commas.
What is a nonessential phrase?
In a compound sentence, these two things must be added in order to properly combine two clauses.
What are a comma and a conjunction (FANBOYS)?
When you combine two independent clauses in a sentence without a comma and a conjunction, you have this sentence error.
What is a run-on sentence?
Combining an independent clause and a subordinate/dependent clause creates this sentence type.
What is a complex sentence?
"FANBOYS" is the popular acronym used for examples of this part of speech.
What is a conjunction?
This noun phrase is placed after a different noun to further identify it in the sentence.
"We rode behind the old, slow car on the Turnpike." In this sentence, this comma rule is being used.
What is two or more adjectives?
What is a fragment sentence?
Two or more independent clauses combined with a subordinate/dependent clause is an example of this sentence type.
What is a compound-complex sentence?
What is an adverb?
Though it is a verb word, a participle acts as this type of part of speech.
What is an adjective?
What is a parenthetical expression (interrupter)?
A clause must have both of these in order to be defined as a clause.
What are a subject and a verb?
In a complex sentence, a comma is only needed if this clause comes first in the sentence.
What is a subordinate/dependent clause?
"Pittsburgh has been named the Steel City." In this sentence, "has been" acts as this specific type of part of speech.
What is a helping verb?
In the sentence, "A baby crying in the night makes it hard to sleep," "crying in the night" is an example of this type of phrase.
What is a participial phrase?