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a complex sentence contains one main clause and one or more subordinate clauses

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a compound noun, adjective, or verb is a combination of two or more words

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a conditional clause usually begins with ‘if’ or ‘unless’ and says what must happen or exist in order for the information in the main part of the sentence to be true

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a declarative sentence is expressed as a statement

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relating to words or phrases whose meaning depends on the situation in which they are used, for example ‘you’, ‘there’, or ‘last month’

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feminine nouns, pronouns, and adjectives have different forms from masculine or neuter words in some languages

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belonging to one of the groups that nouns, pronouns, and adjectives are divided into in some languages. The others are masculine and neuter.

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expressing an action that is often repeated

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a grammatical sentence follows the rules of grammar correctly

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grammatical words help to give sentences their structure, rather than expressing a particular meaning. Examples are words such as ‘of’ and ‘for’.

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an inflected form of a word is a form that is different from the basic form, for example a plural form of a noun

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not following the usual rules of grammar. For example, ‘eat’ is an irregular verb because its past tense is ‘ate’ and its past participle is ‘eaten’, not ‘eated’.

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relating to words

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masculine nouns, pronouns, and adjectives have different forms from feminine or neuter words in some languages

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consisting of two or more words

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neuter nouns, pronouns, and adjectives have different forms from feminine or masculine words in some languages

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non-restrictive clauses give extra information about a noun. In writing, they are separated from the rest of the sentence by commas.

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relating to the object of a verb or preposition

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consisting of, containing, or used as a participle

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a passive verb or sentence has the person or thing being affected by the action as the subject. ‘He was examined by another doctor’ is a passive sentence.

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a plural word or form is used for referring to more than one person or thing

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a possessive word or form of a word is a word such as ‘her’, ‘its’, ‘Jan’s’, or ‘dog’s’ that shows who or what someone or something belongs to or is connected with

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following the normal patterns of grammar

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limiting the meaning of another part of the sentence

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a simple sentence has only one subject and one verb

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relating to the subject of a sentence

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not correct according to the rules of grammar

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a well-formed sentence follows the rules of a language correctly. This would usually be called a grammatically correct sentence.

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