Sentence Types Notes Flashcards

Vocabulary flashcards covering independent clauses, dependent clauses, simple sentences, compound sentences, and comma splices based on the lecture notes.

Independent Clause

A complete sentence that contains a subject and a verb, and expresses a complete thought.

Dependent Clause

A clause containing a subject and a verb that does not express a complete thought and cannot stand alone.

Simple Sentence

A sentence that contains one independent clause.

Compound Sentence

A sentence consisting of 2 or more independent clauses joined either with a comma and coordinating conjunction, or with a semicolon.

Comma Splice

The error of using only a comma to join two independent clauses.

Complex sentence

A sentence that consists of one independent clause and at least one dependent clause.

Compound-complex sentence

A sentence structure that contains at least two independent clauses and at least one dependent clause.