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22 Cards in this Set
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Noun
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A person, place, thing, animal, or idea
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Definite Article
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The
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Indefinite Article
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A
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Verb
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A word that conveys action, an occurrence, or a state of being.
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Preposition
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Usually words that express spatial or temporal relations - e.g. in, to, for, of, against, behind, before, after, through, between...
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Prepositional phrase
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Preposition + complement: e.g. at (prep.) his desk; towards (prep.) the end; behind (prep.) the building
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Prepositional clause
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Preposition + subordinate clause: e.g. "when (prep.) I have finished my book"; "while (prep.) the dinner was cooking"
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Adjective
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A word which modifies a noun
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Adverb
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A word which modifies an adjective or a verb
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Adjectival phrase
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A phrase which acts as an adjective
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Adverbial phrase
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A phrase which acts as an adverb
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Clause
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The smallest grammatical unit that can express a complete proposition - i.e. it must have a subject and a verb.
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Main clause
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A clause which can stand alone as a sentence and still make grammatical sense.
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Subordinate clause
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A clause which cannot stand alone as a sentence and relies on being connected to the main clause to make grammatical sense. One example is: "When the birds rose from the trees..."
They are always either relative or prepositional clauses. |
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Pronoun
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This is a word which replaces a noun - e.g. I, you, he, she, it, they
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Relative pronoun
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These mark relative clauses - e.g. which, that, what
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Relative clauses
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Clauses introduced by a relative pronoun, such as: "That is Jack's house, _which he built_." In this sentence, "which" is a relative pronoun which refers to "Jack's house".
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Prepositional clause
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A clause introduced by a preposition, e.g. "when I've finished reading this book"
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Nominative/Subject
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The noun doing the action; this noun will determine the "person" of the verb.
"_The boy_ kicked the dog of his sister with his boot." |
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Accusative/Object
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The noun receiving the action.
"The boy kicked _the dog_ of his sister with his boot." |
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Dative/Indirect Object
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This noun will usually come after a preposition or with very particular verbs.
"The boy kicked the dog of his sister with _his boot_." |
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Genitive/Possessive
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Usually translated with "of".
"The boy kicked the dog of _his sister_ with his boot." "The dog of his sister" = "His sister's dog" |
