Sentences
Exclamatory Sentence
Definition: Exclamatory sentences use exclamation marks for emphasis.
Example: “She scared me!”
Declarative Sentence
Definition: Declarative sentences make proclamations.
Example: “The pie tastes delicious.”
Imperative Sentence
Definition: Imperative sentences issue commands.
Example: “Amar, hand me that pencil.”
Interrogative Sentence
Definition: Interrogative sentences ask questions.
Example: “Did the mailman drop off the package?”
Diagramming Sentences
Definition: A visual organization system that you can use to see how the parts of speech like nouns, verbs, prepositions, and articles.
Parallelism
Definition: Parallelism is a stylistic structure that creates uniformity within a sentence.
Examples:
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Incorrect Example: Jada loved to read books, to write poetry, and playing music.
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Correct Example: Jada loved reading books, writing poetry, and playing music.
Run-On Sentences
Definition: Run-on sentences occur when two or more independent clauses are not linked by a conjunction or proper punctuation.
Example: “I love ducklings I love chicks.”
Sentence Structure
Definition: How all the parts of a sentence work together.
Subject-Verb Agreement
Definition: In a sentence, a subject’s number must always match the verb’s number, whether the sentence uses a singular-singular structure or a plural-plural structure. Singular subjects take singular verbs and plural subjects take plural verbs. Some verbs (like ‘drive’) use the same form for both singular and plural numbers, so if there is doubt about a particular verb, check its standard forms.
Example:
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Incorrect: "The teams is winning."
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Correct: "The teams are winning."