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27 Cards in this Set
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Operators
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The verb used to construct negative or interrogative clauses.
Ex: I WILL not allow you to gothere. IS she walking? (dummy do) |
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Coordination
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Two clauses are connected, with each having equal status
"it's modern but it's clean" Occur most often in conversation. |
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Subordination
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One clause is embedded as part of another clause
"although it's modern, it's clean" |
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Ellipsis
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Simplificiation "It's clean although modern"
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Dependent Clauses
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Normal part of another clause (the main clause)
"I hate to see that. We have 30 men working. |
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Independent Clauses
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Can stand on their own without being subordinate to another clause.
"She has a day off school." |
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Object
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occurs after the main verb
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Subject
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occurs before the main verb
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Relative Clause
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Refers to preceding noun
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Complement Clause
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Doesn't refer to preceding noun
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Subject Raising
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Subject of dependent clause becomes subject of main clause.
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Object Raising
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Object of dependent clause becomes subject of main clause
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Extrapositioning
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Subject of main clause moves to the end of the sentence
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Not negation
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conversation
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Contractions
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conversation
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Noun modifiers
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academic
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No-negation
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academic
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Interrogatives
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conversation
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imperative clauses
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no subject
Conversation |
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Premodifiers
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Academic
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No modifier
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Conversation
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Postmodifier
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Academic
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Both Pre- and Post-
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Academic
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Prepositional phrases as postmodifiers
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Academics
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Relativizers
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Academic
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That-clause types
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Conversation
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Subject Predicative TO clauses
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the problem IS
the function IS |
