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- Adverb Clause
- A subordinate clause that modifies a verb, adjective, or adverb. It answers one of four questions: how, when, where, and why.
- Clause
- A group of words that have a subject and verb.
- Gerund
- A verb form used as a noun.
- Simple Sentence
- A sentence structure that contains one independent clause.
- Gerund Phrase
- A gerund with its modifiers and complements that all work to gether as a noun.
- Compound Sentence
- Consists of two subordinate clauses.
- Adverb
- A word that modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb. They generally answer one of four questions: how, when, where, or to what extent.
- Pronoun
- Takes the place of a noun in a sentence.
- Adjetive
- A word that modifies a noun or pronoun.
- Predicate Nominative
- A noun or pronoun which follows the verb and describes or renames the subject.
- Compund-Complex Sentence
- Consists of two or more independent clauses and one or more subordinate clauses.
- Infintive
- A verb form that usally begins with (to). It is used as a noun, adjective, or an verb.
- Subordinate Clause
- Cannot stand alone as a complete sentence because it does not express a complete thought.
- Conjuntion
- words that join words, phrases, or sentence parts.
- Infinitive Phrase
- An infinitive with its modifiers and complements that all work together as a noun, adjective, or an adverb.
- Independent Clause
- Can stand alone as a sentence because it expresses a complete thought.
- Subject
- A part of a sentence or clause about which something is being said.
- Direct Object
- A word or phrase in a sentence referring to the person or thing receiving the action of a transitive verb.
- Verb
- It's what you do.
- Adverb Phrase
- The part of speech that modifies a verb, adjective, or other adverb.
- Indirect Object
- An object indirectly affected by the action of a verb.
- Noun
- Person, place, or things
- Preposition
- Links nouns, pronouns and phrases to other words in a sentence.
- Complex Sentence
- Consists of one independent clause and one or more subordinate clauses.
- Participle Phrase
- A participle with its modifiers and complements that all work together as an adjective.
- Prepositional Phrase
- Consists of the preposition, its object and any associated adjectives or adverbs.
- Noun Clause
- A subordinate clause that is used like a noun.
- Interjection
- A word or phrase showing emotion or surprise which has no grammatical relationship to any other words or part of a sentence.
- Adjective Clause
- A subordinate clause that modifies a noun or pronoun.