Sentence Structure

Question 1

A group of words that makes a complete thought. Starts with a capital letter and ends in punctuation.

Answer 1

Sentence

Question 2

Who or what the sentence is about- a noun or pronoun

Answer 2

subject

Question 3

What the subject does in a sentence- the verb

Answer 3

predicate

Question 4

all the words in a sentence that belong to the subject

Answer 4

complete subject

Question 5

all the words in the sentence that belong to the predicate

Answer 5

complete predicate

Question 6

a group of words missing the subject or predicate- incomplete sentence

Answer 6

fragment

Question 7

When the sentence is a command, the subject isn’t always stated

Answer 7

Exception to the fragment rule

Question 8

another name for a complete sentence

Answer 8

clause

Question 9

a comma used to incorrectly to separate two complete sentences

Answer 9

comma splice

Question 10

two complete sentences that run together

Answer 10

run on sentence

Question 11

3 ways to fix a run on sentence:

Answer 11

1. make it into two separate sentences
2. use a semicolon
3. make it a compound sentence

Question 12

two complete sentences joined by a conjunction: FANBOYS

Answer 12

compound sentence

Question 13

What does FANBOYS stand for

Answer 13

for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so