| adverb clause | clauses built around adverbs; answer questions such as how and when?
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| command and exclamation sentences | sentences that either directly order (command) or express intensity of feeling or emotion (exclamation). Ex. of a command: Turn on the oven! Ex. of an exclamation: I'm thrilled!
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| coordination | joining equal sentence parts to form a compound sentence. Ex.: Aaron likes ice cream, and he eats a lot of it.
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| essential adjective clauses | clauses that would change the meaning of the sentence if they were left out
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| infinitive phrase | a sentence built around an infinitive--a verb with the word to. Ex.: To sleep, Jim needed a soft pillow.
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| participial phrase | a phrase consisting of a participle--a verb form ending with -ing, present tense, or -ed, en, -n ending, past tense--and words that describe a noun or pronoun
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| prepositional phrase | a phrase beginning with a preposition, such as by, above, over or with
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| subordination | joining two unequal sentence parts to form a complex sentence. Ex.: Aaron likes ice cream because it tastes so sweet.
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