Sentence Terms

• phrase - a group of words that does not contain a subject and a verb
• clause - a group of words that contains both a subject and a verb
• independent clause - a clause in a sentence that can stand alone or as a complete sentence
• subordinate clause - another term for dependent clause- a clause that looks like a sentence in a sentence that can't stand alone
• coordinating conjunctions- FANBOYS  ,for  ,and  ,nor  ,but  ,or  ,yet  ,so   used to make compound sentences
• subordinating conjunctions - a conjunctions such as if , because ,  since  that introduces a  dependent clause
• compound sentence - a sentence that consists of two or more independent clauses connected by fanboys
• complex sentence - a sentence that has one independent clause and one or more dependent clause
• run-on sentence - two or more sentences that are run together with commas or without any punctuation
• fragment - missing a subject or a verb; does not express a complete thought