SAT Grammar

Noun

person, place, or thing

verb

action word

adjective

describes a noun

adverb

describes a verb (ends in ly)

pronoun

replaces a noun (he, she, they)

Independent clause

can stand alone as a sentence, must: have a subject, have a conjugated verb associated with the subject, express a complete thought

dependent clause

cannot stand alone as a sentence

Where do you use commas

1. to separate items in a list of three nouns (Tom, Judi, Bob, and Carl went bowling)

2. separating two adjectives that describe the same noun (I enjoyed the warm, sunny day.)

3. separating an independent and dependent clause (Typing quickly, I finished my paper on time.)

4. setting a part non-essential (must be a dependent clause) from the rest of a sentence (comma sandwich)(also works with two open dashes and parentheses) (Jeff, a life long baseball fan, went to Yankee stadium)

Comma-FANBOYS combination (what does FANBOYS stand for)

FANBOYS-

For

And

Nor

But

Or

Yet

So

A semi-colon, period comma-FANBOYS may all be used to…

separate two independent clauses