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19 Cards in this Set
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What is a coordinating conjunction?
List the 7 F A N B O Y S |
They join equal elements, such as 2 independent clauses.
for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so |
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Define a dependent clause
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A clause that must be joined to an independent clause to make a complete sentence.
Also called subordinate |
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Describe an independent clause.
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A clause that can by itself be a sentence.
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Define a phrase.
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A group of 2 or more related words that functions as a single part of speech. A phrase lacks a subject and/or predicate, so it cannot stand alone as a complete sentence or form a clause.
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Define a clause.
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A group of words that ALWAYS has a subject and a predicate.
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What is a helping verb.
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A helping verb shows time, condition or circumstance of a verb.
may, must, can, will |
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What is a verb?
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A verb shows action or linds the subjects to another word.
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What are the forms of become?
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seem
look appear smell taste feel sound grow remain |
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Name the forms of be.
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am
is are was were be being been |
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Name an example of future verb tense.
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I will walk
We will walk They will walk |
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Name an example of verb tense past.
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we walked
you walked they walked |
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Give an example of verb tense present.
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I walk
we walk they walk |
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Name the categories of nouns
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proper
common concrete/tangible abstract/intangible collective (group) |
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What is a pronoun?
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A pronoun takes the place of a noun. It must have an anticedent or it becomes a faulty pronoun reference.
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What is a gerund.
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a verb that ends in "ing"
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Name the types of pronouns.
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personal - I, me, he
reflexive/intensive - refers to self indefinite - some, all, many intensive - adds intensity relative - who, which, that demonstrative - to point - this one, that one interrogative - who, which, what |
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What is an infinitive verbal?
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Begins with "to" and does not express the time of the action.
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What is an imperative?
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When the subject is understood to be you.
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Name the articles, or noun markers.
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a
an the |
