Construction

A run-on sentence is a sentence in which two or more independent clauses (complete sentences) are joined without appropriate punctuation or conjunction.

In this video lesson, Ms. LaMagra will be discussing simple sentence consisting of only one clause, with a single subject and predicate.

This lesson is part 2 of a 4 part series on diagramming sentences. This lesson shows you how to diagram Type IV and V sentences, which are sentences that have predicates that are linking verbs and predicate adjectives or predicate nouns as their subject compliments. This video shares a quick review and uses a diagram to analyze sample sentences.

A compound sentence is composed of at least two independent clauses.

Complex sentence is a sentence with one independent clause and at least one dependent clause

This lesson is part 3 of a 4 part series on diagramming sentences. This lesson shows you how to diagram Type VI sentences, which are sentences that have predicates that are intransitive verbs. These sentences only need a subject and predicate. This video shares a quick review and uses a diagram to analyze sample sentences.

This video lesson will cover a greater variety of sentence types and punctuating compound, complex and compound-complex sentences.

This lesson is part 1 of a 4 part series on diagramming sentences. This lesson shows you how to diagram Type I, II, and III sentences, which are sentences that have predicates that are forms of the verb "to be" and have prepositional phrases, predicate adjectives, or predicate nouns as their subject compliments. It also touches on compound subjects and modifiers. This video shares a quick review and uses a diagram to analyze sample sentences.

Subjects, objects, complements, and verbs may all be compound. They may include more than one part of the same kind.