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

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 Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson

Overflow, the running over of the parts of a sentence from one line to the next without a pause at the end of the line, 62.

From The Principles of English Versification by Baum, Paull Franklin