Modifiers, Simple And Compound Sentences And Predicates And Subjects

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Modifiers

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Words, phrases, or clauses that provide description in sentences.

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Adjective

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A word describing a noun.

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Adjective in: Poor, Stephen, who just wanted a quick meal to get through his three-hour biology lab, quickly dropped his fork on the cafeteria tray, gagging with disgust as a tarantula wiggled out of his cheese omelette, a sight requiring a year of therapy before Stephen could eat eggs again.

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"Poor"

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Adjective Clause

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Dependent clause that modifies a noun.

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Adjective Clause in: Poor, Stephen, who just wanted a quick meal to get through his three-hour biology lab, quickly dropped his fork on the cafeteria tray, gagging with disgust as a tarantula wiggled out of his cheese omelette, a sight requiring a year of therapy before Stephen could eat eggs again.

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"who just wanted a quick meal"

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Adverb

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A word that describes a verb, adverb, or adjective.

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Adverb in: Poor, Stephen, who just wanted a quick meal to get through his three-hour biology lab, quickly dropped his fork on the cafeteria tray, gagging with disgust as a tarantula wiggled out of his cheese omelette, a sight requiring a year of therapy before Stephen could eat eggs again.

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"quickly"

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Adverb Clause

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A dependent clause that modifies a verb

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Adverb Clause in: Poor, Stephen, who just wanted a quick meal to get through his three-hour biology lab, quickly dropped his fork on the cafeteria tray, gagging with disgust as a tarantula wiggled out of his cheese omelette, a sight requiring a year of therapy before Stephen could eat eggs again.

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"as a tarantula wiggled out of his cheese omlette

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Absolute Phrase

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A group of words that modifies an independent clause as a whole.

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Absolute Phrase in: Poor, Stephen, who just wanted a quick meal to get through his three-hour biology lab, quickly dropped his fork on the cafeteria tray, gagging with disgust as a tarantula wiggled out of his cheese omelette, a sight requiring a year of therapy before Stephen could eat eggs again.

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"a sight requiring a year of therapy before Stephen could eat eggs again"

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Infinitive Phrase

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The infinitive form of a verb plus any complements and modifiers.

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Infinitive Phrase in: Poor, Stephen, who just wanted a quick meal to get through his three-hour biology lab, quickly dropped his fork on the cafeteria tray, gagging with disgust as a tarantula wiggled out of his cheese omelette, a sight requiring a year of therapy before Stephen could eat eggs again.

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"to get through his three-hour biology lab"

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Participle Phrase

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A phrase that begins with a past or present participle

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Participle Phrase in: Poor, Stephen, who just wanted a quick meal to get through his three-hour biology lab, quickly dropped his fork on the cafeteria tray, gagging with disgust as a tarantula wiggled out of his cheese omelette, a sight requiring a year of therapy before Stephen could eat eggs again.

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"gagging with disgust"

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Prepositional Phrase

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A modifying phrase consisting of a preposition and its object.

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Prepositional Phrase in: Poor, Stephen, who just wanted a quick meal to get through his three-hour biology lab, quickly dropped his fork on the cafeteria tray, gagging with disgust as a tarantula wiggled out of his cheese omelette, a sight requiring a year of therapy before Stephen could eat eggs again.

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"on a cafeteria tray"

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Subject

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What or whom the subject is about

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Predicate

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Tells us what the subject is doing

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Imperative Sentences

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The subject is "you", which is implied or understood.

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Simple Subject

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Noun or pronoun stripped of its modifiers

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Simple subject in: A piece of pepperoni would satisfy his hunger.

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"would satisfy"

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Simple Predicate

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Verb stripped of all its modifiers

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Compound Subject

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Simple subject consisting of more than one noun or pronoun that share a verb

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Compound Predicate

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Simple predicate containing one or more verb pertaining to the same subject

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Simple Sentence

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A sentence containing only one clause.

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Compound Sentence

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Sentence containing two or more indepdendent clauses joined by a coordinating conjuction

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Complex Sentence

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Sentence containing one independent clause and at least one indepdent clause Contains clauses which are not equal

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Compound Complex Sentence

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A coordinating conjunction joins two complex sentences, or one simple sentence and one complex sentence

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IC=SV

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Simple

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IC, cc IC=SV, cc SV

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Compound

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IC DC or DC, IC=SV sc SV or sc SV, SV

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Complex

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IC DC, cc IC DC=SV sc SV, cc SV cc SV or IC, cc IC DC=SV, cc SV sc SV

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Compound complex