Sentence Types

Group of words with a subject and verb that CANNOT stand alone (ex. Before we went to school)

• phrase

• simple sentence

• independent clause

• dependent clause

Group of words with a subject and verb that CAN stand alone (ex. I talked.)

• phrase
• independent clause
• dependent clause
• subordinator

A group of words that is MISSING either a subject OR a verb OR both (Example - into the school)

• independent clause

• dependent clause

• phrase

• simple sentence

Type of sentence formed by joining two independent clauses with a comma and conjunction

• simple

• compound

• complex

• compound-complex

Type of sentence formed from ONE independent clause

• simple
• compound
• complex
• compound-complex

Type of sentence formed from one DEPENDENT and one INDEPENDENT clause

• simple
• compound
• complex
• compound-complex

A clause MUST have these TWO elements

• adjective and adverb
• subject and object
• subject and verb
• subject and subordinator

Tags

CCSS.L.7.1A

CCSS.L.9-10.1B

What is the BEST way to combine these sentences?
1) I don't like art.
2) I like my art teacher.

• Because I don't like art, I like my art teacher.
• I don't like art, but I don't like my art teacher.
• Although I don't like art, I like my art teacher.
• When I don't like art, I like my art teacher.

The word with "special powers" that makes an independent clause dependent (or powerless)

• coordinator

• subordinator

• conjunction

• subject

When joining a compound sentence, use a comma AND one of these words.

• subordinator

• conjunction

• subject

• semicolon