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25 Cards in this Set
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type of sentence
Imogene was certainly an inventive person. |
declarative
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type of sentence
OH! I thought of something to say! |
exclamatory
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type of sentence
Why didn't Beth think of that word sooner? |
interrogative
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type of sentence
Speak a little louder. |
imperative
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type of sentence
Gather dry logs for the campfire. |
imperative
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makes a statement or tells something....ends in a period
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declarative
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asks something.....ends in a question mark
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interrogative
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shows strong feeling...ends with an exclamation point
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exclamatory
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commands someone to do something...ends with a period
starts with a verb |
imperative
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contains a subject(whom or what the sentence is about) and a predicate (what the subject does or has. can also describe what the subject is or is like.
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sentence
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does not express a complete thought. it may be missing a subject, a predicate, or both.
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sentence fragment
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sentence or fragment:
Many green things in the greenhouse. |
sentence fragment
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includes all of the words in the subject of a sentence
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complete subject
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includes all of the words in the predicate of a sentence
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complete predicate
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the main word or group of words in the complete subject
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simple subject
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the main word or group of words in the complete predicate
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simple predicate
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find subject:
There are only four coins commnly in circulation today. |
coins
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find subject:
They are pennies,nickles,dimes, and quarters. |
They
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find subject:
Tell me a about this odd-looking coin. |
you
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find subject:
It looked too much like a quarter. |
It
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find the subject:
There is a dollar. |
dollar.....Here and There are never sentence subjects.
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has two or more subjects that have the same predicate. The subjects are joined by AND,OR,or BUT.
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compound subject
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has two or more verbs that have the same subject. The verbs are joined by AND,OR, or BUT
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compound predicate
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a sentence that has one main clause and one or more subordinate clauses.
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complex sentence
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two or more sentences incorrectly written as one sentence. Notice the way run-on sentnces ma be corrected
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run-on sentence
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