GRAMMAR

• Noun phrase

  Group of words built around a noun, no verb
• verb phrase

  verb accompanied by a modal or auxiliary
• main clause

  clause with a subject and verb that makes sense on its own
• subordinate clause

  clause containing a subordinating connective that does not make sense without the intended clause
• minor sentence

  incomplete sentence that still makes sense in context
• simple sentence

  one independent clause
• compound sentence

  two independent clauses joined by a FANBOY or semi colon
• complex sentence

  one independent clause joined with one or more dependent clauses
• Imperative sentence

  A command, must begin with a verb
• declarative sentence

  a statement
• interrogative sentence

  a question
• exclamative sentence

  statement with exclamation mark at the end
• subjunctive sentence

  statement beginning with if
• asyndetic list

  standard list with commas
• syndetic list

  list which uses conjunctions
• active voice

  sentence where the subject does the verb
• passive voice

  sentence where the object comes before the subject
• anaphora

  repetition of words or phrases as the beginning of successive clauses
• epistrophe

  opposite of anaphora, repetition of words or phrases at the end of successive clauses
• Symploce

  Combination of anaphora and epistrophe
• Syntactical parallelism

  When sentences or clauses close together follow similar patterns of construction
• hyperphora

  asking a question and answering it
• chiasmus

  reversing/inverting the words of one clause in the next one
• anadiplosis

  repeating the last word of one clause at the beginning of the next one