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  1. command
    an authoritative direction or instruction to do something
  2. compound sentence
    a sentence composed of at least two coordinate independent clauses
  3. conjunction
    a function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases
  4. declarative
    a mood that represents the act or state as an objective fact
  5. exclamation
    an abrupt excited utterance
  6. exclamation point
    a punctuation mark (!) used to indicate emotion
  7. imperative
    a grammatical mood that expresses a command or exhortation
  8. interrogative
    a sentence of inquiry that asks for a reply
  9. object
    (grammar) a noun or noun equivalent that is acted upon
  10. paragraph
    one of several distinct subdivisions of a text
  11. period
    a punctuation mark that ends a declarative sentence
  12. predicate
    the constituent of a sentence containing the verb
  13. question
    a sentence of inquiry that asks for a reply
  14. question mark
    a punctuation mark (?) at the end of a sentence that is asking something
  15. run-on sentence
    an ungrammatical sentence in which two or more independent clauses are conjoined without a conjunction
  16. simple sentence
    a sentence having no coordinate clauses or subordinate clauses
  17. statement
    a message that is declared
  18. subject
    one of the two main constituents of a sentence
  19. topic sentence
    a statement that provides the main idea of a paragraph
Created on Wed Jan 18 10:55:48 EST 2017 (updated Wed Mar 29 15:45:58 EDT 2017)

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