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| Identifies action or state of being |
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| Names a person, place, or thing |
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| Takes the place of the noun |
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| Do not tell of an action, |
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| Subordinating Conjunction |
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| Create a dependant Clause on their own. |
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| Coordinating Conjunctions |
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| Conjunctions that join words or groups of words of equal importance together. |
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| is a word that is used with a noun or pronoun. To show the relationship between the noun or pronoun and other words in the sentence. |
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| Adverbs are words that modify verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs. |
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| A SENTENCE FRAGMENT fails to be a sentence in the sense that it cannot stand by itself. It does not contain even one independent clause. |
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| A run-on sentence is a sentence in which two or more independent clauses (i.e., complete sentences) are joined without appropriate punctuation or conjunction |
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| A complex sentence has an independent clause joined by one or more dependent clauses. |
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| A compound sentence contains two independent clauses joined by a coordinator. |
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| A simple sentence, also called an independent clause, contains a subject and a verb, and it expresses a complete thought. |
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| An independent clause (or main clause) is a clause that can stand by itself, also known as a simple sentence. An independent clause contains a subject and a predicate; it makes sense by itself. |
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