Grammar Review 9 and 10

An incomplete sentence or a piece of a sentence that cannot stand on its own

• run-on sentence

• comma splice

• fragment

• clause

The part of a sentence that contains a subject and a verb

• phrase

• clause

• simple sentence

• fragment

A group of words that words as a grammatical unit (as an adjective or adverb) but cannot be a sentence.

• phrase

• clause

• simple sentence

• fragment

A clause that contains a subordinating conjunction and cannot stand on its own as its own sentence

• independent clause

• dependent clause

• prepositional phrase

• coordinating conjunction

connect independent clauses to create compound sentences. Acronym is F.A.N.B.O.Y.S

• prepositions

• subordinating conjunctions

• coordinating conjunctions

• commas

When two independent clauses are connected only with a comma

• fragment

• compound sentence

• complex sentence

• comma splice

A sentence that has one independent clause and one dependent clause

• complex sentence

• compound sentence

• simple sentence

• compound-complex sentence

A sentence that only has one independent clause and no other clauses

• compound sentence

• complex sentence

• compound-complex sentence

• simple sentence

A sentence with clauses improperly combined or without proper punctuation

• fragment

• adverb phrase

• dependent clause

• run-on sentence

the noun following a preposition in a prepositional phrase

• subject

• object of the preposition

• noun clause

• conjunction