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parts of a sentence

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  1. Classifications of words, phrases, and clauses according to the way they figure in sentences. (See auxiliary verb, conjunction, dependent clause, direct object, independent clause, indirect object, modifier, predicate, and subject.)


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Whether is a conjunction that joins words or other parts of a sentence.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021

The mark was a hybrid between a comma and a colon, and its purpose was to prolong a pause or create a more distinct separation between parts of a sentence.

From The New Yorker ● Jul. 15, 2019

Though Manuzio invented the comma in order to separate parts of a sentence, it can tie words together as efficiently as it keeps them apart.

From The New Yorker ● Feb. 16, 2015

Interjections, though often enough thrown in between the parts of a discourse, are very rarely "thrown in between the parts of a sentence."

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

Ebbinghaus omits parts of a sentence and requires the subject to supply the omissions.

From The Measurement of Intelligence An Explanation of and a Complete Guide for the Use of the Stanford Revision and Extension of the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale by Ellwood Patterson Cubberley

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