Runs On And Frag Flashcards

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A group of words hay does not contain a subject and a verb

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Phrase

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Contains a word that is made from a verb but is used as another part of speech

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Verbal phrase

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Group of words that identifies or explains a nervy noun or pronoun in the sentence

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Appositive phrase

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Group of words consisting of a preposition a noun or a pronoun that serves as the object of the preposition and any modifiers of that object

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Prepositional phrase

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Does not express a complete thought and cannot stand alone as a sentence

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Subordinate clause

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Group of words that contains subject and a verb

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Clause

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Expresses a complete thought and kids stand alone as a sentence

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Independent clause

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Two or more complete sentences that are written as one sentence

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Run-on sentence

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The writer has joined two or more complete sentences with no punctuation chin mark between them

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Fused sentence

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The writer has joined two or more sentences using only a comma to separate them

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, Splice

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Group of words that is only a part of a sentence

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Sentence fragment

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