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The following list of sentence structures is based mostly on a book available from Barron's publishing: The simplest English sentence has two parts: subject (noun or pronoun) and verb. It's basic pattern is __subject__ || __verb__ The double pipe is used here to separate the two parts. Additional words in a sentence are called modifiers. Sentences have different purposes or tasks: · Declarative A sentences makes a statement · Interrogative Does a sentence make sense? · Imperative Read this sentence aloud · Exclamatory How well you can write!
 * # Longknife, Ann, K D. Sullivan, and Marie L. Waddell. //The Art of Styling Sentences: 20 Patterns for Success//. Hauppauge, N.Y: Barron's, 2002. Print. ||

Longer sentences include more parts that also have names and functions: · Phrases o Prepositional phrases begin with a preposition o Participial phrases begin with a present or past participle o Infinitive phrases begin with an infinite (“to” plus a verb)

· Clauses o Independent clauses make a complete statement by itself o Dependent clauses modifies part of another clause and is not complete on its own o A combination of independent and dependent clauses § Simple one subject-verb combination in an independent clause § Compound two or more independent clauses (each with subject-verb statements) § Complex one independent and one or more dependent clauses § Compound complex two or more independent clauses and one more more dependent clauses