Sometimes it isn't nearly as obvious as you might assume. The ability to distinguish between sentences and fragments is the basis for correctly using punctuation discussed. In the asset. If you cannot tell when a statement is and is not a sentence, you will find it extremely difficult to know when to use periods, commas, semicolons, and colons.

Building a Sentence

Every sentence must contain two things. The first being a subject. And the second being a conjugated verb that corresponds to the subject. A sentence can contain only one word or consist of many complex clauses, but provided it contains a subject and a verb, it can be considered grammatically complete regardless of whether it makes sense outside of any context.

Simple Sentence

A simple sentence such as the pineapple grows. Is known as a simple sentence because it only contains a subject and a verb. Here the subject is the pineapple and a verb is gross. This tells us what the subject does. Because it can stand on its own as a sentence. It can also be called an independent clause.

Prepositional Phrases

If we want to make. Our sentence a little longer. We can add a prepositional phrase. A prepositional phrase is a phrase that begins with a preposition, a time or location word that comes before a noun. Common prepositions include into, with, from for, at, by and on.

Pronoun as a Subject

Now it's can also be replaced by pronouns, words such as it, she and they. For example, in the sentence the pineapple grows, we can replace a subject tomato with the singular pronoun it.

Group Pronouns

One very point. Of confusion that is quite common involves group pronouns such as some, several, few, many, and others. These pronouns can be used to begin clauses in two different ways, one of which creates an independent clause and the other of which creates a dependent clause.

Adverbs

Adverbs can modify verbs and clauses. Most adverbs are created by adding LY onto adjectives. For example, slow becomes slowly, current becomes currently and important becomes importantly.

A second type of adverb, however, does not end in Albi. Some of these adverbs are adverbs of time, which tell you when or how often something occurs. Others are transitions that indicate relationships between ideas.