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Adjectives and Verbs

modifiers , words that add meaning to other words. The simplest modifiers are adjectives and verbs . Adjectives modify nouns, and adverbs modify verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs.

Prepositional phrases

Like adjectives and adverbs, prepositions give meaning to the nouns and verbs in the sentence. An introductory sentence consists of two main parts: a sentence and a noun or pronoun that completes the main sentence.

Four basic sentence structures

There are four basic sentence structures in English:

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  A simple sentence is a sentence that consists of one independent clause (also called a main clause): Judy laughed.
  
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  A complex sentence contains at least two independent clauses: Judy laughed and Jimmy cried .
  
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  A compound clause has an independent clause and at least one subordinate clause : Jimmy cried when Judy laughed.
  
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  Complex - A complex sentence contains at least two independent clauses and at least one subordinate clause: Judy laughed and Jimmy cried when the clowns ran to their places .
  

Coordination

A common way to connect related words, phrases and even whole sentences is their agreement, that is, their connection with the main coordinating conjunction of the type "and" or "but".

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To show that one idea in a sentence is more important than another, we rely on subordination , which means treating a group of words as secondary (or subordinate). A common form of subordination is an adjective , a phrase that modifies a noun. The most common adjectives begin with one of these relative pronouns: who , which , and that .⁴

Additional modules

An appositive is a word or group of words that defines or names another word in a sentence, often preceded by a noun . Appositive constructions offer concise ways of describing or specifying a person, place, or thing.