Grammar for sentences
- Created by: WinchesterD
- Created on: 03-05-15 13:51
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- Grammar - sentences
- Functions
- Declarative: give information
- Interrogative: asking questions
- Imperative: give instructions
- Exclamatory: express feelings
- Voice
- Active
- subject-verb-object
- Passive
- object-verb-subject
- Active
- Types
- Simple
- one clause with one main verb
- Compound
- two or more coordinating clauses joined by coordinating conjunctions
- Coordinating conjunction e.g and, but, or
- two or more coordinating clauses joined by coordinating conjunctions
- Complex
- main clause and subordinate clause, joined by a subordinating conjunction
- Subordinating conjunction e.g until, while, after
- main clause and subordinate clause, joined by a subordinating conjunction
- Compound-Complex
- contain both a connective and a subordinate clause
- Minor
- fragment of a sentence
- Simple
- Clauses
- Conditional: express a condition
- e.g if... then
- Reason: gives a reason
- e.g because...
- Relative: gives more information about someone/something
- e.g who, which
- Conditional: express a condition
- Functions
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