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11 Cards in this Set
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Types of sentences |
Exclamatory, declarative, interrogative |
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Sentence |
An expression of a thought or feeling by means of a word or words used in such form and manner as to convey the meaning intended |
Page 57 |
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Exclamatory |
An outcry, giving an expression to a command wish or desire |
Look! Don't touch that! |
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Interrogative sentence |
Asking a question.(intonation can make it exclamatory question). |
97 |
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Essential elements of a sentence |
Subject and predicate |
Noun form and action form, page 98-114 |
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Agreement |
The predicate agrees with subject in number, and where possible person, gender and case |
Page 115-120 |
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Subordinate elements of a sentence |
Modifiers |
Page 120-148 English grammar George curme |
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Independent elements |
Parts not related grammatically to other parts of the sentences or stand alone expressed or understood |
Interjections, direct address(name of a person), absolute nominative(page 149), absolute participles ( taking all things into consideration, his lot should be a happy one, taking is a dangling participle having no word that can serve as a subject, it's reference is general and indefinite so we expect no definite mention of a subject) |
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Classes of sentences |
Compound, 152-156, complex156-199 |
Complex involves different types of clauses |
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Syntax |
The rules of a language particularly how words fit together to make a complete and understandable sentence, parts that make a grammatically correct sentence |
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Syntax |
The general acceptable form of language and written speech and how all its written parts work together understandably |
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