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modify nouns; descriptive
example: What a "beautiful" girl! |
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modify verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs
example: She is "very" excited. |
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consist of two or more simple sentences separated by conjunctions
example: John is already here and Mary is on the way. |
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used to describe the consequences of a specific action, or the dependency between events or conditions. Conditional sentences consist of an independent clause and a dependent clause
example: You will be sorry if you don't come. |
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used to connect sentences or part of sentences
example: and or but |
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used to form statements; end in a period
example: This is a declarative sentence. |
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used in commands
example: Come here right now! |
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express strong feeling or emotion and have no grammatical relation to any other word in a sentence
example: "Whew!" That was close! |
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used to form questions; frequently start with adverbs such as "Who", "What", "Where", "When", and "Why;" end in a question mark
example: Who are you? |
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denotes a thing, place, person, quality, or action
example: There goes "Jack!" He is running towards the "house" with the "dog!" |
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refers to ordinary things
example: We caught a "mouse" in our mouse trap. |
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refers to two or more objects
example: I just bought all of my "books" for class. |
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refers to persons, specific things or specific places
example: I went to that giant mall in "Florida" with "Jackie." |
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refers to one object
example: This "class" is really hard. |
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refers to the properties of the object
example: That is "Jordan's" book. |
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stands in the place of a person's name
example: "He" had a lot of fun at the amusement park ("he" instead of "John"). |
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indicate relationships between different parts of the sentence
example: Clouds are "over" the earth and "below" the moon. |
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the part of the sentence that contains a verb or verb phrase and its complements
example: The predicate of the sentence "John cried." is "cried." The predicate of the sentence "Mary will give me a letter." is "will give me a letter." |
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words used instead of a noun
example: "That" is pretty.
another example: "Which" is pretty? |
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the part of the sentence which performs an action or which is associated with the action
example: In the sentence "John cried." the pronoun "John" is the subject. |
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an action
example: I like to "write."
another example: She likes to "sing." |
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sentence that expresses strong feelings by making an exclamation
example: I really love dogs! |
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