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| a group of words that contains a subject and a verb and expresses a complete thought |
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| a sentence that has only one independent clause and no subordinate clause |
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| a sentence that has two or more clauses but no subordinate clauses |
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| a sentence that has one independent clause and one subordinate clause |
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| compound complex sentence |
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| a sentence that has two or more independent clauses and at least one subordinate clause |
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| the main word or word group that tells whom or what the sentence is about |
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| a simple subject and any word or word groups that modify the simple subject |
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| the main word or word group that tells something about the subject |
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| the verb and all the words that modify the verb and complete its meaning |
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| a group of words that complete a verb and its subject and that is used as part of a sentence |
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independent
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main clause |
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| a clause that expresses a complete thought and could stand by itself as a sentence |
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dependent
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subordinate clause |
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| a clause that does not express a complete thought and could not stand alone as a sentence |
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| a group of words that is punctuated as if it was a complete sentence but that does not contain both a subject an a verb or that does not express a complete thought |
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| two or more complete sentences run together as one |
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| a run-on sentence in which sentences have been joined with only a comma between them |
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| the use of the same grammatical form to balance related ideas in a sentence |
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| a group of related words that does not contain a verb and its subject and that is used as a single part of speech |
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| joins words or word group |
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| to re-think and reconstruct elements of a written piece |
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| to make minor corrections (spellings, punctuation, verb tense, etc.) in a written piece |
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