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Brannan: A Writer's Workshop
A Writer's Workshop: Crafting Paragraphs, Building Essays
Bob Brannan, Johnson County Community College
Working with Sentence Parts

Summary

1.

There are eight kinds of words: nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, prepositions, conjunctions, interjections.

2.

There are six kinds of phrases: participial, gerund, absolute, infinitive, prepositional, appositive.

3.

There are two major kinds of clauses: main and subordinate.

4.

There are three kinds of subordinate clauses: noun, adjective and adverb.

5.

There are four kinds of sentences: simple, compound, complex and compound-complex.








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