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10 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
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Review of grammar and word choices |
Focus on grammar, word choice (usage) sentence structure, punctuation, spelling |
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Subject verb agreement |
Focus on verbs. Plural subjects agree with plural verbs. Single subjects with single verbs |
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Verb tenses |
Past, present, future |
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Irregular verbs |
Begin began begun past present future. Do did done. Go went gone. Rise rose risen. Wim swam swum |
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Adjective aND adverbs |
Adverbs- describe actions (verbs) often ends -ly Adjectives- describe things (nouns, pronouns) |
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Pronouns |
Replace noun |
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Who vs whom |
Replace whom with him or them Replace who with he or they |
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Parallism |
When have the same grammatical. Structure |
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Idioms |
Sounds right but not grammatically corused only correct because widely accepted Ex addicted to not addicted of |
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Dangling and misplaced modifiers |
Misplaced- introductory phrase that does not clearly, logically, connect to a subsequent modifier (usually the subject) in a sentence. the sentence is out of order
Misplaced- one placed to close to a word that it could, but should not modify. Modifier that has nothing to modify. Missing the true subject Modifiers- adjectives adverbs describing parts of the sentence |
