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Kinds of Sentences

Declarative: My dog is in the street barking at cars.

Interrogative: Where is my toy?

Imperative: Clean your room.

Exclamatory: My hand is burning!

 Correct a Run-On Sentence

1. My dog is in the neighbors yard because they are grilling steaks. Add a subordinating conjunction

2. You can go to your room ,or stay here in the dark. Add a comma and a conjunction

3. Where is my coat? Your coat is over there. Separate the sentences using periods

4. There is a horse in the river; because he was being chased. Place a semicolon between the sentences



Sentence Structure

Simple: This is a wonderful day. Compound: This is a wonderful day, but there was a rain storm. Complex: When you clean your room you can watch TV. Compound/complex: Terry is sad because he is grounded, and he is banned from Xbox.



Figurative language

Simile: Your eyes are like stars. Metaphor: Your house is a cave. Hyperbole: You missed the target by a mile. Alliteration: He parked the purple car at the pink house. Onomatopoeia: The lion growled when he jumped on the zebra. Personification: The bird sang in the spotlight.



//Writing styles//

Vivid: I dashed to the door to greet my friend. Appositive: James, my friend, went to go see a movie. Absolute: The red eared slider turtle, its sliky green shell against the black pavement, crawled across the highway. Ajective beginning: Pretty dogs will always win the dog show ribbon. Dash: All of my grandparents - GG, Papa, Ammy, Pappy, and Nana - came to watch my baseball game. Adverb for effect: I'm working hard on my wiki page because I want to make a good grade. Speaker tag: "I ran two miles today", James said.