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Sentence – a set of words that contains a subject and a predicate and conveys a statement, command, question, or an exclamation.

Sentence Parts

Subject – what/who the sentence is about The Coven Witches patiently learned about how to use telekinesis.

Predicate – what the subject does The Coven Witches patiently learned about how to use telekinesis.

Sentence Types

Declarative – a sentence that makes a statement (ends with a period mark) Learning to walk in the dark the campers make their way to their cabins.

Imperative – a sentence that makes a command (ends with a period mark) Learn to walk in the dark immediately.

Interrogative – a sentence that asks a question (ends with a question mark) Why would anyone walk in the dark?

Exclamatory – a sentence that expresses great emotion, passion, excitement (ends with an exclamation mark) That walk in the dark was terrifying!

Sentence Patterns

Simple Sentence: A sentence that is just one independent clause. Most dead people who have unfinished business come back in the form of ghosts.

Compound Sentence: A sentence with multiple independent clauses, but no dependent clauses - connected by FANBOYS (coordinating conjunctions) or a semicolon (;). Many seasons of AHS can take up time, but they all can be finished.

Complex Sentence: A sentence with one independent clause and at least one dependent clause. When you set up a plan, escaping the asylum will be easier.

Complex-Compound Sentence: A sentence with multiple independent clauses and at least one dependent clause. Whether you plan ahead or not, most assignments for school get done, but they can take up a lot of time.

Loose Sentence: A sentence that contains an independent clause plus a subordinate construction (either a clause or phrase) with your main point at the beginning. The Coven is going to change your life, no matter what your gift is or how long it takes to develop it.

Periodic Sentence: A sentence in which the independent clause is given at the end of the sentence in order to create interest or generate suspense with the main point coming at the end. No matter what your gift is or how long it takes, the coven will change your life.

Parallel Structure: A sentence using the same pattern of two or more verbs or ideas that match in tense or structure to show that they are of equal importance and to help the reader comprehend what is being written - this sentence requires symmetry. Witches tend to be superior, to practice spells, and to succeed where others fail.

Balanced Sentence: A sentence where phrases or clauses at the beginning and the end parallel each other by virtue of their likeness of structure, meaning, or length - this sentence requires symmetry. Camp Redwood spends its days gaining more campers while the campers never return home.

Chiasmus: A sentence that includes a repetition of ideas (words, phrases, or clauses) in inverted (reversed) order - this sentence requires symmetry. The Countess makes up Hotel Cortez and without her they would be nothing. Asyndeton: A sentence that leaves out conjunctions between words, phrases, or clauses for a rhetorical purpose. Warlocks typically exhibit inferiorness, stubbornness, power, lack of knowledge.

Polysyndeton: A sentence that uses multiple conjunctions in close proximity to each other between words, phrases, or clauses for a rhetorical purpose.

Anaphora: A sentence that features the purposeful repetition of a word, words, or a phrase at the beginning of several successive clauses in order to place emphasis and draw attention. For so many people, the seven wonders could lead to death and loss, and for others it could lead to power and leadership, but most will agree that the seven wonders is a very risky task.

Epistrophe: A sentence featuring several phrases or clauses ending with the same word or words. Witches give their all to the coven, their loyalty, their respect, their all, their lives to the coven and fellow witches and if broken, burned at the stake.

Sentence Errors

Run-On/Rambling/Fused Sentence – a sentence construction error where two or more independent clauses are connected incorrectly without punctuation. Violet wanted to stop going to school the girls bullied her she was not comfortable. [WRONG] Violet wanted to stop going to school BECAUSE the girls bullied her AND she was not comfortable. [RIGHT]

Comma Splice – a sentence construction error where two or more independent clauses are connected incorrectly using commas Violet wanted to stop going to school, the girls bullied her, she was not comfortable. [WRONG]

Violet wanted to stop going to school. The girls bullied her; she was not comfortable. [RIGHT]

Fragment – incomplete sentence pieces that are not connected to or do not form an independent clause Because the girls bullied her. [WRONG] Because the girls bullied her, she was not comfortable. [RIGHT]

Misplaced/Dangling Modifiers – modifiers are words, phrases, or clauses that add description; a misplaced modifier describes the wrong part of a sentence and a dangling modifier is missing the part it’s supposed to modify At the asylum, the Nun gave the patient food that was tied down. [WRONG} At the asylum, the Nun gave the patient who was tied down food. [RIGHT]

Double Negative – combining two or more negative words in a sentence in a way that is supposed to produce a positive force

The campers knew that it wouldn’t do them no good to waste time. [WRONG] The campers knew that it would not do them any good to waste time. [RIGHT]