parts of a sentence

Cultural  

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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Example Sentences

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

These groups perform the office of the substantive, the adjective, or the adverb, and, in some one of these relations, enter in as the component parts of a sentence.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold

The variety in the arrangement of the parts of a sentence that has been sanctioned by good usage is great, yet there are limits.

From English: Composition and Literature by Webster, W. F. (William Franklin)