Syntax Flashcards
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Sentences types
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- declarative
- interrogative
- imperative
- exclamative
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Components of syntax
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- sentence types: declarative, interrogative, imperative, exclamative
- sentence structure
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Declarative sentences
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Stating a fact
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Interrogative sentences
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Asking a question
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Imperative sentences
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Giving a command
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Exclamative
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Expressing strong feeling or emotion
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Sentences structures
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- simple
- compound
- complex
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Simple sentence
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Have a single independent clause
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Compound sentence
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Two or more simple sentences joined by a conjunction or separated by a comma, semicolon or colon
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Complex sentence
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Made up of a main clause with one or more subordinate clauses attached
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Phrase
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Group of related words
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Clause
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Group of related words containing a subject (noun) and a predicate (verb)
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Clause structure
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- main (independent)
- subordinate (dependent)
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Main clause
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Can stand alone as a sentence
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Subordinate clause
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Cannot stand alone as a sentence
