Grammar Notes Search

APPOSITIVES: An appositive is a noun or noun phrase placed beside _______ noun or noun phrase in a sentence to explain it/describe it.

APPOSITIVES: Appositives *usually start with words called noun _______.

MODIFIERS: In misplaced or dangling modifiers, the phrase that describes/modifies a noun is in the _____ place!

• SERIES: Place a comma after each item in the series, except the last.

• The final comma is called the ______ comma.

• SERIES: Series sentences can be written with adjectives, but… ​These sentences are long, boring, and lame.

  • ​Instead, use two adjectives, and ________ them with a comma!

COMPOUND: A compound sentence contains two ___________ clauses joined together to form a single sentence.

COMPOUND: An independent clause can stand alone as a sentence and still make _____.

COMPLEX: Spoilers take perfectly good independent clauses and spoil them to be _________!

COMPLEX: Place a comma after the dependent clause if it comes ______ the independent clause.

COMPOUND-COMPLEX: A compound-complex sentence ________ both a compound and a complex sentence into one sentence!