| A | B |
| sentence | A group of words that expresses a complete thought. |
| fragment | A group of words that lacks a subject or a predicate or both. |
| run-on sentence | A faulty sentence made up of two or more sentences that are joined only by a comma or nothing at all. |
| complex sentence | A sentence made up of an independent clause and at least one dependent clause. |
| compound sentence | A sentence made up of two or more independent clauses connected by a comma and a conjunction. |
| compound subject | Two or more subjects that have the same predicate. |
| compound predicate | Two or more predicates that have the same subject. |
| declarative sentence | A sentence that tells something. |
| interrogative sentence | A sentence that asks a quesion. |
| imperative sentence | A sentence that gives a command. |
| exclamatory sentence | A sentence that expresses strong emotion. |