Coordinating Conjunctions: They glue two independent clauses together.

FANBOYS: for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so

Use a comma plus a FANBOYS conjunction to connect independent clauses.
When there is no FANBOY conjunction, use semicolon to connect two independent clauses.
Example therefore, nevertheless,
Subordinating Conjunctions: Modifiers can be connected to independent clause by
subordinating conjunctions. Example – although, because, while, though, unless, before, after, if
Cousin pairs of words:

Adjective and Adverb:

 Like vs
Including

SUBJECT – VERB – AGREEMENT

Fragment Sentence: Either Subject or working verb missing. NOT a complete sentence.
Subject verb must agree in Number (how to check that?)
Eliminate the MIDDLEMAN and Skip the Warmup
1. Prepositional Phrase: a group of words headed by a preposition. Ex- of mice, for milk, by
1900, with her, from the office
A noun in the prepositional phrase will never be the main subject of a sentence.
2. Dependent clause is stripped out of a sentence in order to make subject verb agreement.
Use of THAT
Format: Subject working verb THAT Subject Verb Object
When the word ‘that’ appears just after the working verb, a new subject-verb-object structure will
follow.

COMPOUND SENTENCE
Two Independent clauses are connected with comma and Coordinating conjunctions
(FANBOYS) in order to form a compound sentence.

Run-on sentence/Comma Splice Error: when two independent clauses are only connected
with comma without conjunctions.