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APPOSITIVES: An appositive is a noun or noun phrase placed beside (a)   noun or noun phrase in a sentence to explain it/describe it.

APPOSITIVES: Appositives *usually start with words called noun (a)   .

MODIFIERS: In misplaced or dangling modifiers, the phrase that describes/modifies a noun is in the (a)   place!

• SERIES: Place a comma after each item in the series, except the last.

• The final comma is called the (a)   comma.

• SERIES: Series sentences can be written with adjectives, but… ​These sentences are long, boring, and lame.

  • ​Instead, use two adjectives, and (a)   them with a comma!

COMPOUND: A compound sentence contains two (a)   clauses joined together to form a single sentence.

COMPOUND: An independent clause can stand alone as a sentence and still make (a)   .

COMPLEX: Spoilers take perfectly good independent clauses and spoil them to be (a)   !

COMPLEX: Place a comma after the dependent clause if it comes (a)   the independent clause.

COMPOUND-COMPLEX: A compound-complex sentence (a)   both a compound and a complex sentence into one sentence!