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What is the subject?
This is Who or What the sentence is talking about.
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What is an independent clause?
This clause can stand on its own.
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What is a noun?
This is a person, place, thing, or idea.
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What is a simple sentence?
This sentence is one: Oolong tea is originally from a mountainous region of Taiwan.
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What is the Simple Present?
This verb tense describes routines, facts, or truths.
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What is the verb?
This is the action that the Do-er of the sentence performs.
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What is a dependent clause?
This clause uses a word such as because, when, or since, and it cannot stand on its own.
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What is a pronoun?
This stands in place of a noun. It can be possessive, or it can refer to a subject or object.
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What is a compound sentence?
This sentence is one: Oolong tea is originally from a mountainous region of Taiwan, and it is quite popular throughout the world.
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What is the Present Continuous (Progressive)?
This verb tense describes things that are happening right now or these days.
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What is a clause?
This is a Subject-Verb combination
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What is a compound sentence?
This is a sentence made up of two independent clauses.
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What is a coordinating conjunction?
This is a word that joins two independent clauses.
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What is a complex sentence?
This sentence is one: Oolong tea is expensive because it can only grow in mountainous regions that are difficult to access.
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What is the Present Continuous (Progressive)?
This verb tense can be used to describe the future, but it does not use Will or Be Going To.
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What is a phrase?
This is a group of words that does not have a Subject-Verb combination.
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What is a complex sentence?
This is a sentence made up of one independent clause and one dependent clause.
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What is a subordinating conjunction?
This is a word that joins an independent clause to a dependent clause.
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What is a compound-complex sentence?
This sentence is one: Oolong tea originated in a mountainous region of Taiwan, but it has since been successfully grown in China where it has become one of the most popular teas.
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What is the Present Perfect?
This verb tense connects the past with the present.
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What is a sentence?
This has at least one clause, a capital letter at the beginning, and punctuation at the end.
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What is a compound-complex sentence?
This is a sentence made up of two independent clauses and one dependent clause.
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What is a helping verb (auxiliary)?
This is a word that is needed to form a continuous verb, or a perfect verb, or a question with a verb.
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What is a correlative conjunction?
This sentence is joined with one of these: Not only is Oolong tea popular, but it is also considered the highest quality tea.
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What is the Present Perfect Continuous?
This verb tense connects the past with the present, and it is also happening right now or these days.
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