| A | B |
|---|
| complete sentence | communicates a complete thought and has a subject and a verb |
| verb | tells what the subject does or what the subject is |
| simple subject | the word or group of words that a sentence is about |
| simple predicate | the verb or verb phrase of the sentence |
| complete subject | the simple subject and all of it modifiers |
| complete predicate | the verb and all of its modifiers |
| compound subject | two or more subjects in the same sentence |
| compound predicate | two or more verbs in the same sentence |
| coordinating conjunctions | for, and, nor |
| correlative conjunctions | either...or, neither...nor, not only...but also |
| imperative sentence | a sentence that is a command or request |
| declarative sentence | a sentence that makes a statement |
| exclamatory sentence | a sentence that shows strong emotion or feeling |
| interrogative sentence | a sentence that asks a question |
| correlative conjunctions | whether...or, both...and |
| coordinating conjunctions | but, or, yet, so ; |
| imperative sentence | The subject of this sentence is understood to be (you). |
| fragment | incomplete sentence |
| run-on sentence | a sentence with too many thoughts and does not have the correct punctuation |
