Sentence Structures and Types

• In an independent clause, there must be both a subject and a verb.
• The subject is the person or thing doing the action, while the predicate contains information about the subject.
• A sentence is a group of words that expresses a complete thought.
• The main difference between an independent clause and a dependent clause is that an independent clause can stand alone as a complete thought or idea, while a dependent clause cannot.
• A dependent clause is also known as a subordinate clause because it depends on another part of the sentence to make sense.
• Compound sentences can have coordinating conjunctions such as "and," "but," "or," "so," and "yet."
• Dependent clauses are often introduced with conjunctions such as "because," "if," "since," "although," "as long as," etc.
• Independent clauses can be combined using coordinating conjunctions (e.g., "and", "but", "or")
• a compound sentence is made of 2 independent clauses
• In a complex sentence, there must be at least one independent clause and one dependent clause
• a complex-compound sentence is a sentence that contains two or more independent clauses as well as dependent clause
• clauses contain a subject and predictate
• a predictate is a verb marked by tense
• the subject is a noun/pronoun - what the clause is about, at the beginning
• phrases do not require a subject and a predictate
• declarative sentences make a statement
• interrogative sentences are made up of an auxiliary + subject + rest of predictate and are asking a question
• imperative sentences are issuing a directive order and the structure is: (you) + predictate
• exclamative sentences are making an exclamation and have the structure: what/how + subject + predictate