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59 Cards in this Set
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A group of related words that acts as a single part of speech
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phrase
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Prepositional phrases, appositive phrases, verbals
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Types of Phrases
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Participal phrase, gerund phrase and infinitive phrase
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Types of VERBAL phrases
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Acts as an adjective or adverb made up of a preposition, its object and any modifier
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Prepositional phrase
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Some people take a sport TO ITS EXTREME
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Example of Prepositional phrase
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A phrase that RENAMES a noun or pronoun
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Appositive phrase
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Mr Rickard, THE PRINCIPLE AT MBJH, gives the announcements each morning.
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Example of Appositive Phrase
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A verb form that acts like an adjective
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Participle phrase
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PLAYED FOR MORE THAN 100 YEARS, high school football has a rich tradition.
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Example of a participle phrase
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This is an "ing" verb form that acts like it is a noun.
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Gerund Phrase
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COMPETING IN THE 1984 OLYMPICS brought him one gold medal and two silver medals.
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Example of GERUND phrase
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This phrase type acts like a noun, adjective or adverb
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INFINITIVE Phrase
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It is one of the few golf organizations TO WORK WITH DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN
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Example of Infinitive phrase
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This phrase functions like an adverb and modifies a verb, adverb or another adverb OR it can function as an Adjective and modify a noun or pronoun
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Prepositional phrase
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The cape buffalo is the most dangerous OF ALL BIG GAME, he said, IN THE SAME SLOW TONE.
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Examples of prepositional phrases acting as an adverb
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"We could hear the beats OF OUTKAST blasting from the sterio system"
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Prepositional phrase acting like an adjective
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A group of related words that acts as a SINGLE PART OF SPEECH
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Phrase
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a word that names a person, place, thing or idea
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NOUN
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lake, month, guitarist, dog
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Examples of common nouns
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Lake Ripley, February, John Mayer
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Proper Noun- always are capitalized
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bell, book, flower
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concrete nouns
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sadness, independence (idea or state of mind)
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abstract nouns
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crew, audience, family
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collective nouns
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Collective, common, proper, concrete, abstract
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Types of nouns
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A word used in place of a noun or another pronoun (her, his)
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Pronoun
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The word that a pronoun stands for. Her = "SUZY"
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Antecedent
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Those, that, these, this, anybody, someone, another, anything, both, few, any, some, who, whom, whose, he, she, they, our, mine, I, them
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Examples of pronouns
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a word that expresses action, conditions or states of being
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Verbs
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Action, linking, helping
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Types of verbs
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Run, jump, tickle, whisper
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Examples of action verbs
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smell, look, feel, sound, taste, appear, become, seem, remain
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Example of linking verbs
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Am, is, was, are, were, be, being, been
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Linking verbs that are states of being
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Can, have, many, might, must, shall, should, will, would
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Examples of helping verbs
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A word that modifies, describes, or limits the meaning of a noun or pronoun
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Adjective
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What kind? Which one? How many? How much?
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Questions that adjectives attempt to ask
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Articles And and The are examples of
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Adjectives as articles
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A word that modifies a verb, adjective, or another adverb
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Adverb
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Where? WHen? How? to what extent?
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Questions that adverbs ask
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Not all adverbs end in
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-ly
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Afterwards, already, also, today, tomorrow, sometimes, slow, often, still, next
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common adverbs
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Words that show the relationship between a noun or pronoun and another word in the sentence
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Prepositions
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about, above, against, along, underneath, until, inside, into, near, by, on, off
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Common prepositions
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A word that connects a group of words - such as: for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so...
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Conjunctions
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Not only, but also
Either, or Neither, nor Both, and |
Examples of correlative conjunctions
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A word that expresses emotion. Such as "Ouch! That knife is sharp"
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Interjections
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Sentence:
The violent sea overturned the sailboat |
Simple subject and predicate
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Sentence:
The climb up the mountain was difficult. |
Sentence with predicate adjective (PA)
WAS DIFFICULT (Verb, PA) |
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Sentence:
Mount Everest was their destination. |
Sentence with a predicate nominative (PN)- that renames or defines the subject (DESTINATION=Mt. Everest)
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Sentence:
The climber grabbed THE ROPE. |
Sentence with a direct object- Answers a question "What?" or "Whom?" (THE ROPE)
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Sentence:
The rescue team gave survivors HOT FOOD |
Sentence with indirect objects (Tells to what, to whom, for what, for whom an action is done)
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Sentence:
Many early jazz bands played in New Orleans. |
A noun (or pronoun) that follows a preposition
(IN is the preposition- New Orleans is the object of the preposition). |
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A group of words that contain a subject and a verb
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Clause
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A main clause that expresses a complete thought, it can stand alone
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Independent clause
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Example:
Genes carry your genetic history. Although you inherit your looks, the origin of your personality is more mysterious. |
Example of independent clause.
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A clause that contains a subject and a verb, but does not express a complete thought. It can't stand alone.
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Subordinate clause
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Example:
Research on identical twins has fueled WHAT SCIENTISTS CALL HEREDITY VS. ENVIRONMENT DEBATE. |
Example of Subordinate clause
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This phrase does not have a subject and is not the same as a subordinate clause
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Verbal phrase
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Example:
CHATTERING AS BIRDS, squirrels raise a fuss. |
Example of a verbal phrase in bold
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Example:
When THEY ARE CHATTERING LIKE BIRDS, squirrels raise a fuss. |
Example of subordinate phrase
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