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19 Cards in this Set
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What is a verb? Name the three types and what they do.
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Action, Linking, Helping, and Complete.
Action Verbs: Tell someone or something to do something. Linking verbs: Tells someone or something is, feels or looks like. Helping verbs: words that add information. Complete verbs: consists of an action or link to other verbs. |
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What is a noun and the (2) types of noin?
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A naming word.
Common: Something in general. Proper: Something specific. |
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What is a pronoun?
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Can do anything nouns do and can take the place of nouns. Stunt nouns.
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What is an adjective?
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These modify or describe verbs and pronouns. They make sentences clear and vivid.
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What an adverb?
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Adverbs modify, describe, or alter adjectives, verbs, and other adverbs. THEY DO NOT MODIFY NOUNS.
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What is a preposition?
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Prepositions indicate a relationship -- usually spatial in nature. (In, near, etc)
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What is a conjunction?
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Conjunctions: link words together. To, and, but, for, etc.
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What is an interjection?
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Words that express strong emotion.
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What is a phrase? What composes it?
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A group of words that function together. They are always missing a subject and a verb.
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What is a clause?
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Clauses are groups of words that come with either a subject or a verb and may stand alone occasionally.
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What is a dependant clause?
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A clause that requires a portion of a sentence to work.
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What is an independent clause?
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A clause that may function by itself.
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What is a subject?
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The topic the sentence is about.
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What is a compound subject?
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When there are two or more words that tell what the sentence is about.
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What is a prepositional phrase?
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A group of words that beins with words like in, on, from. Spatially oriented.
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What are fragments?
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Parts of a sentence.
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What are fused sentences and comma splices?
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Where two sentences are written as one.
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What is a comma splice?
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Where a comma is put between two independent clauses.
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How can fused sentences be fixed? (4 ways)
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Use a period.
Use a coordinating conjunction. Create a dependent clause. Use a semicolon. |
