An expression whose meaning is not 

predictable from the usual meanings 

of its constituentelements

Example: He kicked the bucket

Literal- He kicked a tin bucket.

Figurative- He died.

A figure of speech comparing two things without using words such as like, as, or seems.

Example: Life is just a giant rollercoaster. 

A figure of speech using the words such as like, as, or seems.

Example: The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars, as daylight doth a lamp.

A similarity between like

 features of two things.

Example: Pink is a type of color and 

donuts are a type of food. 

 1. subject & verb

 -Louis fell down.

 2. subject & subject & verb

 -Harry and Tessa kissed.

3. subject & verb & verb

-One Direction laughed and laughed.

4. subject & subject & verb & verb

-Zayn and Perrie held hands and walked.

1. subject & verb, compound conjunction, subject & verb

-Louis said a joke, and the lads laughed and laughed.

*Compound Conjunctions

  For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So

FANBOYS

1. subject & verb complex conjunction subject & verb

2. subject, c.c., verb

3. c.c., subject & verb , subject & verb

Gerunds

A form of verb that that acts as a noun ending in -ing.

Example: Singing is what I like to do.

A form of the verb that acts as an adjective ending in -ing.

Example: The leaping lizard.

A form of the verb that acts an adjective in perfect tense.

Example: The broken watch was gold.

An infinitive comes after the word to to act as a noun, adjective, or adverb.

Example: I want to marry One Direction. 

A sentence that is in traditional word or of subject/verb (who did what).

Example: The lads laughed.

A sentence in which the subject either follows the verb or is missing but assumed. In this type of sentence, the focus is on the verb and/or direct object rather than the subject.

Example: The cookies were all eaten.

Statement of fact or reality. 

Example: A cat sits on the stove.

A command.

Example: Make me bacon.

A question.

Example: Want a sugar a cube?

A conditional state that will cause something else to happen.

Example: I might get mad, if I don't food in the next five seconds.

Indicates a hypothetical state, a state contary to reality, such as a wish, a desire, or an imaginary situation.

Example: If I were a butterfly, I would have wings.