THE SENTENCE: DEFINITIONS OF KEY TERMS
○ Clause: A group of words which forms a grammatical unit and which contains a subject and a finite verb
Because I was late, they went without me.
➔ Independent and dependent clauses
○ Phrase: A group of words which forms a grammatical unit but which does not contain a subject and a finite verb
I like her expensive new car.
George hates working in the garden.
○ Noun phrases, prepositional phrases, verb phrases, adjective phrases, adverbial phrases
THE SENTENCE: DEFINITIONS OF KEY TERMS
○ Sentence: a grammatically complete unit capable of standing alone on its own and semantically...
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