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11 Cards in this Set
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Subject:
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The subject of a sentence is the person, place, thing, or idea that is doing or being something.
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Predicate:
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Predicate is a grammar term used to describe the part of the sentence which talks about the subject and which has a verb.
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Clause
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Units of grammar that contain at least one predicate (verb) and a subject. A clause, therefore, contains a single verb group. A clause is a group of words with a verb and a subject.
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Independent Clause
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A simple sentence has the most basic elements that make it a sentence: a subject, a verb, and a completed thought.
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Compound sentence
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refers to a sentence made up of two independent clauses (or complete sentences) connected to one another with a coordinating conjunction or semiolon.
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Coordinating conjunctions
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For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So
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Dependent Clause
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A dependent clause (or subordinate clause) is one that cannot stand alone as a complete sentence because it does not express a complete thought.Like all clauses, a dependent clause has a subject and verb. Dependent clauses can act as adjectives, adverbs, or nouns.
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Complex Sentence
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A sentence made up of one independent clause and at least one dependent clause. The link between a dependent clause and an independent clause will often be a subordinating conjunction or a relative pronoun.
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Conjunction
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a word used to connect clauses or sentences or to coordinate words in the same
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Subordinating conjunctions:
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after although as because before even if even though: if provided rather than since so that than though unles until whether while
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Relative pronouns:
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Who what when where why how that which whom whose
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