Grammar for high school admissions tests: Difference between revisions

Grammar for high school admissions tests (view source)

787 bytes added , 9 May 2023

m

4,620

edits

@@ Line 27: / Line 27: @@
 * if the clause cannot be a sentence by itself, it is a '''dependent clause'''
-==== independent clause (IC) ====
+=== independent clause (IC) ===
 * a part of a sentence that contains a finite verb and can be a sentence by itself
 * an independent clause that is by itself is a sentence
@@ Line 34: / Line 33: @@
 *** "The dog is playing happily" could be a complete sentence if by itself, so it is an IC
 *** by adding the dependent clause, "since I gave him a bone," we create a larger sentence.
+==== coordinating conjunction ====
+* = FANBOYS
+* "coordinates" like sentence parts
+* combines
+** ICs, nouns and nouns, verbs and verbs, DCs and DCs, etc.
+*** it always joins "coordinate" or like sentence parts
+* note that transition words are NOT coordinating conjunctions
+** ''as ,however, nevertheless, etc.'' ARE NOT coordinating conunctions
+** they are conjunctive adverbs
+*** which means that they set up a contrast or comparison of verbs / predicates
+** RULE: however is NOT  coordinating conjunction
+** so do not use it to combines ICs
+*** ''I am hungry, however, I don't have money for lunch'' = incorrect
+*** needs a period or semicolon:
+**** ''I am hungry; however, I don't have money for lunch'' = correct
+**** ''I am hungry. However, I don't have money for lunch'' = correct
 ==== dependent clause (DC) ====