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Declarative sentences
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Used to form statements.
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Interrogative sentences
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Used to ask questions,
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Exclamatory sentences
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Used to express a strong feeling.
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Imperative sentences
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Used to express a command.
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Simple sentence
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Contains one main idea and has only one independent clause.
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Compound sentence
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Two independent clauses joined by, a) a coordinating conjunction,b) a conjunctive adverb...
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Complex sentence
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One independent clause (headed by a subordinating conjunction or a relative pronoun ) joined...
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Compound-complex sentence
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A sentence that has two independent clauses joined to one or more dependent clauses.
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Noun
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Names people, places, things, and ideas.
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Proper Noun
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Names a specific person, place or thing. Capitalized no matter where it appears in a sentence.
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Common noun
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Names general things. Preceded by the definite article "the". Are not capitalized unless...
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Collective noun
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Nouns that refer to things or people as a unit. Examples: family, police, class, team, crew...
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Pronoun
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Words that take the place of a noun or noun phrase.
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Verb
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The part of speech that expresses existence, action, or occurence.
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Linking Verb
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Word that connects the subject of the sentence to information about that subject
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Adjective
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A word that modifies or describes a noun.
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Questions that an adjective answers.
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A) What kind?, B) What type?, C) How many?, D) Whose?, E) Which one?
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Adverb
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A word that modifies a verb, adjective, or another adverb.
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The questions that adverbs answers.
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A) Who?, B) Where?, C) When?, D) How Often?, E) To what extent?
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Preposition
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Word or words that link a noun or pronoun to another word in a sentence
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Conjunction
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The part of speech that serves to connect words, phrases, clauses, or sentences.
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Phrase
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A seequence of words intending to have meaning.
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Clause
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A group of words that have a subject and verb.
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Independent clause
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A clause that can stand on its own.
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Dependent clause
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An idea that cannot stand alone.
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