Understanding Clauses and Sentence Structures

Improving reading speed

Learning new vocabulary

Understanding comma rules and clauses

Practicing pronunciation

It cannot stand alone

It lacks a subject

It has both a subject and a verb

It always starts with a conjunction

It starts with a subordinating conjunction

It ends with a period

It can stand alone as a sentence

It contains a subject and a verb

Compound sentence

Independent clause with interjection

Dependent clause, independent clause

Independent clause, dependent clause

A dependent clause inserted into an independent clause

A complete sentence

A punctuation mark

A type of verb

It is always at the beginning of a sentence

It is surrounded by commas or dashes

It contains a subject and a verb

It ends with a question mark

To create longer sentences

To make sentences more complex and meaningful

To confuse the reader

To avoid using conjunctions

It is raining.

It is raining outside.

Even though it is sunny, it is raining.

It is raining, and it is cold.

They contain only independent clauses

They are always short

They combine different sentence structures

They do not use commas

That the sentence is as long as possible

That the sentence is logical and makes sense

That no conjunctions are used

That all clauses are independent