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- 1. phrases prepositional phrases answer the question ‘where’ in a sentence. They always define where a noun is. The most common prepositions are in, on, between, and next to.
- 6. predicates are the action taken in the sentence. You can think of a predicate as: everythingafter the subject, the first verb and everything else, or the action of the sentence.
- 7. nouns can be common (people, places, things, ideas) or proper (names, titles, days, months)
- 8. verbs can be actions (go, say, run) or states of being (be, have, can).
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- 2. clauses independent clauses are a full sentence. All sentences (independent clauses) aremade of a subject and a predicate. They can exist without subordinating clauses and prepositional phrases.
- 3. subjects are who/what the sentence is about. You can think of a subject as: everything before the first verb, the first noun and all of its modifiers, or who/what did the action of the sentence.
- 4. clauses subordinating clauses, like prepositional phrases, give extra information in asentence that isn’t needed in an independent clause to be grammatically functional. They start with words like: while, why, as, if, that. You can cross out an entire subordinating clause, and a sentence will still have a subject and a predicate.
- 5. and Antecedents there are 7 subject pronouns. They are: I, you, he, she, it, we, they. Pronouns can replace any noun. Antecedents are the noun that gets replaced by a pronoun.