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adjectival modifier
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A word, phrase, or clause that acts as an adjective in qualifying the meaning of a noun or pronoun. Your country; a turn-of-the-century style; people who are always late.
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adjective
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A word that modifies, quantifies, or otherwise describes a noun or pronoun. Drizzly November; midnight dreary; only requirment.
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adverb
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A word that modifies or otherwise qulifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb. Gestures gracefully; exceptionally quiet engine.
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adverbial phrase
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A phrase that functions as an adverb. (See phrase.) Landon laughs with abandon.
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agreement
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The correspondence of a verb with its subject in person and number (Karen goes to Cal Tech; her sisiters go to UCLA), and of a pronoun with its antecedent in person, number, and gender(As soon as Karen finished that exam, she picked up her books and left the room).
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antecedent
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The noun to which a pronoun refers. A pronoun and its antecedent must agree in person, number, and gender. Michael and his teammates moved off campus.
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appositive
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A noun or noun phrase that renames or adds identifying information to a noun it immediately follows. His brother, an accountant with ARthur Andersen, was recently promoted.
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articles
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The words a, an , and the, which signal or introduce nouns. The definite article the refers to a particular item: the report. THe indefinite articles a and an refer to a general item r one not already mentioned: an apple.
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auxiliary verb
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A verb that combines with the main verb to show differences in tense, person, and voice. The most common auxiliaries are forms of be, do and have. I am going; we did not go; the have gone. (See also modal auxiliaries.)
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case
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The form of a noun or pronoun that reflects it grammatical function in a sentence as subject (they), object (them), or prossessor (their). She gave her employees a raise that pleased them greatly.
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clause
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A goup of related words that contains a subject and predicate. Moths swarm around ta burning candle. While she was taking the test, Karen muttered to herself.
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colloquialism
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A word or expression appropriate to informal conversation but not usually suitable for academic or business writing. They wanted to get even (instead of them wanted to retaliate).
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complement
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A word or phrase (especially a noun or adjective) that completes the predicate. Subject complements complete linking verbs and rename or desribe the subject: Martha is my neighbor. She seems shy. Object complements complete transitive verbs by describing or renaming the direct object: The found the play exciting. Robert considers May a wonderful wife.
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compound sentence
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Two or more independent clauses joined by a coordinating conjection, a correlative conjunction, or a semicolon. Caesar conquered Gaul, but Alexander the Great conquered the world.
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compound subject
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Two or more simple subjects joined by a coordinating or correlative conjunction. Hemingway and Fitzgerald had little in common.
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