AP Grammar

A complex sentence in which the main clause comes first and the subordinate clause follows.

• periodic sentence

• loose sentence

• compound-complex sentence

• declarative sentence

• interrogative sentence

A complex sentence in which the main clause where the main idea is not completed until the end of the sentence.

• periodic sentence

• loose sentence

• compound-complex sentence

• declarative sentence

• interrogative sentence

a word that can be common or proper and is used to identify any of a class of people, places, ideas or things

• adjective

• article

• noun

• predicate nomnative

• pronoun

Any member of a class of words that are used before nouns, pronouns, or other substantives to form phrases functioning as modifiers and that typically express a spatial, temporal, or other relationship, as in, on, by, to, since.

• adjective

• article

• noun

• preposition

• pronoun

Sentence construction which places equal grammatical construction near each other, or repeats identical grammatical patterns.

• balanced sentence

• parallelism

• parenthetical idea

• participial phrase

using the same pattern of words to show that two or more ideas have the same level of importance

• balanced sentence

• parallel structure

• parenthetical idea

• participial phrase

Interrupts the flow of a sentence with some commentary or added detail.

• balanced sentence

• parallelism

• parallel structure

• parenthetical idea

• participial phrase

includes the participle and the object of the participle or any words modified by or related to the participle.

• balanced sentence

• parallelism

• parallel structure

• parenthetical idea

• participial phrase

an adjective or group of adjectives that follows a linking verb; it is in the predicate of the sentence and modifies or describes the subject

• participle

• predicate adjective

• predicate nominative

• subject complement

• participial phrase

a clause that begins with a subordinate conjunction or a relative pronoun and will contain both a subject and a verb. This combination of words will not form a complete sentence.

• subordinate or dependent clause

• independent clause

• inverted clause

• Santa Claus(e)