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51 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
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Grammar
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A way of thinking about language
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Four level of traditional grammar
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Parts of speech
Parts of sentence Phrases Clauses |
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Parts of speech
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The eight kinds of words in English
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Noun
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The name of a person, place, or thing
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Pronoun
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A word that takes the place of a noun
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Pronoun
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A word that takes the place of a noun
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Subject pronoun
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Pronouns used for subjects of verbs and subject complements
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List the subject pronouns
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I, you, he, she, it, we, you, they
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Object pronouns
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Pronouns used as direct or indirect objects, and objects of prepositions
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List the object pronouns
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Me, you, him, her, it, us, you, them
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Adjective
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A word that modifies a noun or pronoun
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Article
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The three adjectives, a, an, and the
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Definite Article
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the adjective the
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Indefinite articles
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The adjectives a and an
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Three degrees of adjectives
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Positive, comparative, superlative
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Verb
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A word that shows action, being, or links a subject to its subject complement
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Conjunction
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A word that joins 2 words or 2 groups of words
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List all the coordinating conjunctions
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and, but, or, nor, for, so, yet
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List all the subcordinating conjunctions
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If, as, since, when, because
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The correlative conjunctions
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Either or, neither nor, not only but also
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Preposition
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Shows the relationship between its object and another word in the sentence
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Interjection
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Shows emotion but has no grammatical function
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Sentence
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A group of words that has a subject and its predicate, and makes a complete thought
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Fragment
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An incomplete thought
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Subject
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The noun or subject pronoun that the sentence is about
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Predicate
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The simple predicate is the verb
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Direct object
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The noun or object pronoun that receives the action of the action verb.
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Indirect object
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The noun or object pronoun between the action verb and the direct object, that is indirectly affected by the action
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Subject complement
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The noun, subject pronoun, or adjective, that is linked to the subject by a linking verb, and that tells more about the subject.
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Predicate nominative
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A subject complement that is a noun or pronoun
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Predicate adjective
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A subject complement that is an adjective.
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Phrase
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A group of words that does not have a subject and its predicate
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Prepositional phrase
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A phrase beginning with a preposition, used as a modifier
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Appositive
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An interrupting definition
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Verbal
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A verb form used as a noun, adjective, or adverb
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The three kinds of verbals
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Gerunds, participles, and infinitives
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Participle
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A verb form of various endings used as an adjective
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Infinite
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The to- form of the verb, used as a noun or modifier
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Clause
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A group of words that has a subject and its predicate
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Independent clause
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A clause that is a complete thought
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Dependent clause
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A clause that is not a complete thought, but needs to be connected to an independent clause
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The 4 clause structures
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Simple, compound, complex, compound-complex
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Simple sentence
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A sentence with 2 or more independent clauses
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Compound Sentence
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A sentence with 2 or more independent clauses.
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Complex Sentence
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A sentence with an independent clause attached to a dependent clause.
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Compound-complex sentence
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A sentence with a compound structure and a complex structure
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The 4 sentence purposes
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Declarative, imperative, interrogative, exclamatory
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Declarative sentence
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A sentence that declares or makes a statement
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Imperative sentence
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A sentence that is imperious, that makes a command
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Interrogative sentence
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A sentence that interrogates, that asks a question
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Exclamatory sentence
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a sentence that exclaims, that has an exclamation point
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