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44 Cards in this Set
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A word used to express the name of s person, place, or thing. |
Noun |
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A word used in place of a noun. (He, she, it, we...) |
Pronoun |
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A word used to describe a noun. |
Adjective |
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A word used to connect sentences, clauses, phrases, or words. |
Conjunctions |
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A word or sound that expresses an emotion. |
Interjection |
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A word placed before a noun or pronoun which is used to indicate position, direction, time, or some other abstract relation. |
Preposition |
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Noun that follows a preposition. |
Object of the preposition. |
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A preposition followed by the object of the preposition. |
Prepositional phrase |
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A word used to describe a verb or adjective. |
Adverb |
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What are the three cases in the English language? |
Subjective, possessive, and objective. |
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A verb which does not take on a direct object. |
Intransitive verb |
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A verb which may take an object. |
Transitive verb |
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The noun that directly follows the transitive verb. |
Direct object |
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The verb which cannot take an object, verbs of being |
Linking verb |
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The noun that follows the linking verb |
Predicate nominative |
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The adjective that follows the linking verb |
Predicate adjective |
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A verb that follows the word "to" |
Intransitive |
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Used to complete the meaning of certain verbs such as "be able, try, out." |
Complementary infinitive |
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A summary outline of a given verb that shows at a glance the major inflectional variations of that verb. |
Synopsis |
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A group of words which contains a subject and a verb but is not a complete sentence. |
Clause |
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Main clause (it can stand alone) |
Independent clause |
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A dependent clause (can't stand alone) |
Subordinate clause |
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A sentence which contains two or more independent clauses after joined by a conjunction |
Compound sentence |
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A sentence which contains at least one dependent and one independent clause |
Complex sentence |
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If you can take the of and put in an apostrophe you have what? |
Possession |
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A sentence that asks a question |
Interrogative |
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A sentence that makes a statement |
Declarative |
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A sentence that exclaims. |
Exclamatory |
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A conjunction used to join two elements of a sentence without subordinating one to the other. |
Coordinating conjunction |
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Words regularly use together which balance each other. Example: both...and; either... Or. |
Correlatives |
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Another name for a commanding sentence. Commands always have you understood as their subject and telling you what to do. |
Imperatives |
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The portion of grammar which deals with the relationship of words to each other in the sentence. |
Syntax |
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The doer of the action. |
Subject |
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Who receives the action |
Direct object |
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A noun or pronoun which follows a linking verb |
Predicate nominatives |
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Found with verbs of giving, telling, and showing. |
Indirect object |
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Refers to a nonspecific person or thing. |
Indefinite pronoun |
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Refers to the subject of the main verb. |
Reflexive pronoun |
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The word for which the pronoun stands. |
Antecedent |
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A word which points out something. Example: this, that, these, those. |
Demonstrative |
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Verbal adjective |
Participles |
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Shows ownership |
Possessive pronoun/ adjective |
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An adjective or any other word or clause being used as a noun |
Substantive |
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A verb which lacks a personal subject and is found only in the third person singular. Example: it's raining. |
Impersonal verb |
