Sentence Structure in Paragraph

To understand a paragraph, it is first important to understand sentences because a paragraph is defined as the a group of sentences. A group of sentences? Yes it is, therefore i italicize the word sentences. Why should i understand the sentences? it is simply because by knowing sentences you can develop your sentences into paragraph interestingly. Once again, remember a paragraph consists of a group of SENTENCES, and therefore it will not consist of FRAGMENT or dependent clause. What is a fragment and what is dependent clause? are they type of sentences? No, they aren't because they can't stand alone as a sentence, even they have subject and verb but they are not exactly a sentence because they don't have or express the idea. For instance; "when i came to the party last night" these words have both S and V, but they do not exactly express any idea and they cannot stand alone as a sentence, namely they are a called dependent clause or incomplete sentence." I call it incomplete because you need to add an independent clause to make it up as a sentence; when i came to tthe party last night, i met Mrs. Cockney, now it has become a sentence for it has the idea and expresses the complete thought. What is an independent clause? it is also called a sentence, it is a clause that has an idea and can stand alone as a sentence, i.e you put it separately into I met Mrs. Cockney. Now, does it have any idea? yes it does.

What are types of sentence in a paragraph? are they called imperative, declarative and so on? No, they are namely sentence structures, they may consist of simple sentence, compound sentence, complex sentence, and compound-complex sentence. 

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