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15 Cards in this Set
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What kind of sentence makes a statement and ends in a period?
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Declarative
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What kind of sentence asks a question and ends with a question mark?
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Interrogative
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What kind of sentence shows sudden or strong feeling and ends with an exclamation point?
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Exclamatory
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What kind of sentence give a command or makes a request and ends with a period or an exclamatory point?
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Imperative
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What are the three things a sentence must have:
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1)subject
2)predicate 3)period |
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If a group of words do not have the three things that a sentence must have, it is called a ___
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fragment
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The words WHAT and HOW are often at the beginning of ___ and ___ sentences.
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Interrogative and exclamatory
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Subjects can never be in a ______ phrase.
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prepositional phrase
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To find the subject of a sentence:
1) Find the _______. 2) Ask "___" or "_____" before it. |
1)find the verb.
2)Ask "who" or "what" before verb. |
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A ___________- is a main verb and its helping verbs.
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verb phrase
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The subject of a __________ sentence will always be "you" or understood "you.
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Imperative
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Sentences have 4 purposes:
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1) to tell,
2) to ask, 3) to request, or 4) to show strong feeling |
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The simple subject is the ____ without any modifiers.
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noun
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The complete subject is the ___ plus its modifiers.
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noun
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To find a verb of a sentence, look for a word that shows ___.
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action
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