| A | B |
|---|
| and/or/but/for/nor/or/so/yet | conjunctions |
| however/hence/therefore | conjunctive adverb |
| tells who or what sentence is about | subject |
| tells what the subject is or does or what happens to the subject | predicate |
| includes the simple subject and all the words that modify it | complete subject |
| includes the verb and all the words that modify it | complete predicate |
| made up of two or more simple subjects that share a verb | compound subject |
| made up of two or more verbs or verb phrases that are joined by a conjunction and have the same subject | compound verb |
| made up of a compound verb and all the words that go with each verb | compound predicate |
| expresses complete thought and can stand alone as a sentence | independent clause |
| contains a subject and verb but does not express a complete thought and cannot stand alone as a sentence | subordinate clause |
| provides information that is necessary to identify the preceding noun or pronoun | restrictive adjective clause |
| adds additional information about a noun or pronoun whose meaning is already clear | nonrestrictive adjective clause |
| consists of one independent clause and no subordinate clauses | simple sentence |
| two or more independent clauses joined together (separated by conjunction and comma, or semicolon) | compound sentence |
| contains one independent clause and one or more subordinate clauses | complex sentence |
| contains two or more independent clauses and one or more subordinate clauses | comound-complex sentence |
| part of a sentence that is punctuated as if it were a complete sentence | sentence fragment |
| two or more sentences written as though they were one sentence | run-on sentence |
| connects words or groups of words | conjunction |
