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1. A sentence is a group of words that makes sense on its own. Cheese, car, house, table on Tuesday. This isn't a sentence - it doesn't make sense. I parked my car next to my house. This is a sentence. You can understand what it means. It makes sense on its own. A sentence must begin with a capital letter. * A sentence must end with a period (.), a question mark (?), or an exclamation mark (!). A sentence must have a VERB (a doing word). e.g. like, is, cooking, walked, need. A sentence must also have a SUBJECT. This is the person, or the thing, that is doing the verb. e.g. I, Maria, Tuesday, dog, you, table, the weather,.
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It is a group of words that stands alone and has a complete thought (Independent clause). Last week Peggy redecorated the pub. Tuesday was very rainy and cold. It contains only an IC (Independent clause)
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It is two or more short, independent, simple sentences joined together by using special words called conjunctions. e.g. 'I hate curry.' is a simple sentence. 'I like Thai food.' is also a simple sentence. You can put these together to make one, longer compound sentence using a conjunction - 'I hate curry' + but + 'I like Thai food' = 'I hate curry, but I like Thai food.' It contains an IC+IC (independent clause) the most common conjunctions: and, as, but, or, so
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In complex sentences the conjunction is used to join together clauses. A clause is a group of words that contains a subject and a verb. It contains a DC+IC (independent clause and dependent clause). e.g. 'The dinner was burned because she had forgotten it.' = 'The dinner was burned' + 'because' + 'she had forgotten it.' This is a complex sentence: 'The dinner was burned' = complete, short sentence 'because' = conjunction (joining word) 'she had forgotten it' = (dependent clause).. This doesn't make sense on its own.
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‘And” is a conjunction which forms a complex sentence. A. True B. False
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“Although” is a(n)…. A. interjection B. preposition C. conjunction D. gerund
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An independent clause has a complete meaning A. Yes B. No
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