Understanding Sentence Structure Components

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Subject

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Tells who/what the sentence is about

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Predicate

Back

Tells what the subject is doing

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Simple Sentence

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Contains a subject and a predicate

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Coordinating Conjunction Definition

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Combines two independent clauses

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Name all the coordinating conjunctions

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For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So

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What goes before a coordinating conjunction in a compound sentence?

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A comma

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Independent Clause

Back

Has a subject and a predicate. Can be a sentence by itself and make sense.

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Dependent Clause

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A group of words that cannot stand alone as a sentence; an incomplete thought.

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Complex Sentence

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A complex sentence = one independent clause and at least one dependent clause.