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25 Cards in this Set
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Modifiers |
Describe or limit other words. Include adjectives and adverbs. |
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Adjectives |
Only describe or modify nouns or pronouns. Answer the questions what kind? Which one? How many? |
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3 Types of Adjectives |
Attributive Appositive Predicate |
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Attributive adjective |
Comes before the noun it describes or modified. Example; the shy boy |
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Appositive |
Follows the words they modify. Example; the boy, hungry, stole my sandwich |
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Predicate adjective |
Follows a linking verb or state of being verb; ex: the boy is hungry. The boy looks hungry, she sounds tired |
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Subject complement |
Completes or finishes the subject are predicate adjectives |
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Adverbs |
Answer the questions how? When? Where? Why? Under what condition? To what extent? How often? Adverbs desribe verbs other adverbs and adjectives basically everything else than a noun |
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Proper adjective |
Taken from proper nouns but ysed to describe ex; American flag Irish coffee Mexican soup |
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Degrees of comparison |
These are the same for adjectives and adverbs: positive comparative and superlative |
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Positive degree |
No comparison -only describing one thing. Ex: tall green cold enormous |
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Comparative degree |
Expresses a higher or lower degree. Compares 2 things. Normally uses -er suffix ex: harder softer or for words that cannot inflict use more and less or worse |
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Superlative degree |
Highest or lowest degree. Describes more than 2, uses -est ending or most, least, best, worst etc ex: hardest softest |
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Absolute quantities |
Do not inflect or cannot be changed to be compared words that are what they are. Ex: dead, pregnant, straight, unique, perfect, round, honest |
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Irregular verbs |
Well-better-best Much-more-most |
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Conjunctive adverbs |
Connect adverb to a dependent clause ex: she left when he got there |
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Conjunctive adverbs |
Where when why before as when while after during whenever as until because |
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Interrogative adverbs |
Uses to ask questions ex; where have you been? |
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Simple adverb |
Modifies 1 word or phrase. |
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Simple conjunctions |
F-for A-and B-because N-norB-becauseO-orY-yetS-so O-or Y-yet S-so |
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Intensifiers |
Very truly really too briefly sincerely certainly surely |
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Propositional phrase |
Can be adjective or adverbs depending on what it's modifiying |
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This that these and those |
Can be pronouns when they appear without a noun. With a noun they are adjectives ex: look at those books. Ex as prepostion look at those |
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Phrase vs clause |
Phrase fns as 1 unit 2 words act as one noun ex: dog food, the boy, in the corner Clause has subject and verb can be dependent or independent |
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Primary adverbs |
Cannot be inflected examples hence soon where here this whence now there never then not twice since too |
