AP Grammar Marks

A group of words that contains a subject and a verb that have a relationship is a _________.

Tags

CCSS.L.7.1A

CCSS.L.9-10.1B

part of speech that connects clauses or sentences or to coordinate words in the same clause.

• adverb

• conjunction

• pronoun

• adjective

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1G

CCSS.L.3.1H

CCSS.L.5.1A

CCSS.L.5.1E

A clause that can stand alone is an ________ clause.

Tags

CCSS.L.7.1A

CCSS.L.9-10.1B

an independent clause with no conjunction or dependent clause

• simple sentence

• complex sentence

• compound sentence

• compound-complex

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1J

CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.3.1I

CCSS.L.7.1B

A subordinate, or dependent, clause (may be more than one correct answer)

• adds information to the independent clause

• is the most important part of the sentence

• is signaled by use of a subordinating conjunction (after, although, if, because)

• combines with an independent clause to create a simple sentence.

Tags

CCSS.L.7.1A

CCSS.L.9-10.1B

We call the group of coordinating conjunctions that link independent clauses to create compound sentences

• POWER

• RIGHT

• FANBOYS

• ABCDE

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1G

CCSS.L.3.1H

CCSS.L.5.1A

CCSS.L.5.1E

An appositive or noun phrase

• must be a complete sentence

• renames or defines another noun

• doesn't need to be enclosed with commas

Tags

CCSS.L.7.1A

CCSS.L.9-10.1B

An exclamatory sentence ends with

• a comma,

• a period.

• a question mark?

• an exclamation point!

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1J

CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.5.1A

CCSS.L.8.1C

CCSS.L.K.1D

A declarative sentence ends with

• a comma,

• a period.

• a question mark?

• an exclamation point!

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1J

CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.8.1C

CCSS.L.K.1D

Withholding of syntactic closure (completion of grammatical structure) until the end of a sentence (close to the period).

• Periodic sentence

• loose sentence

• simple sentence

Tags

CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.3.1H

CCSS.L.3.1I

CCSS.L.5.1E

CCSS.L.7.1B