Webgrammar Grammar Basics Adjectives are modifiers. Alliteration can give a pleasing sound to a sentence, as long as it's not overdone, e.g., World Wide Web . . .
Clauses are groups of words with a subject and predicate .
I like playing Tetris, Subordinate when I have time . Conjunctions join words, phrases or clauses. Metaphors suggest comparison between two different things, e.g., Bill Gates has a heart of gold . . . His mind is a sharp razor. Secretary, desk, computer, Redmond, technology, frustration .