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Reading Time: 2 minutes The simple answer is that an independent clause is a sentence and a dependent clause isn’t. However, groups of words can be dependent clauses or phrases. A prepositional phrase, for …
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Reading Time: 3 minutes To find the subject of a sentence, start by finding the verb. Then ask yourself who or what is performing the action.
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Reading Time: 3 minutes A conjunction is a word that connects two ideas, but what are subordinating conjunctions? Sometimes a conjunction can combine two objects, as in burger and fries, but sometimes a conjunction …
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Reading Time: 4 minutes Verbs show action is one of the first facts about verbs we learn. Then the worksheets begin. We practice identifying past, present, and future tense, identifying verbs in sentences, and …
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Reading Time: 3 minutes Punctuation quote marks can be summed up as punctuation first, quote mark second.
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Reading Time: 2 minutes If you are writing informally, you can start a sentence with and, but for formal writing avoid doing so.
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