25 Grammer Terms

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Noun

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a person, place, thing, or idea

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Verb (linking, helping, action)

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conveys an action or a state of being

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Adverb

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modifies a verb; it answers how, when, or why?

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Preposition

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shows the relationship between two things in space or time. Most (blank) fit into this sentence: The cat ran _________ the house (under, over, behind, across, from, etc).

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Conjunction

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words that connect words or phrases or whole sentences. You can remember them by FANBOYS - for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so.

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Adjective

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modifies a noun; it answers "what kind?", "how many?", or "which one?"

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Interjection

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an exclamation (Rats! Oh!) (Son Of a Nutcracker!)

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Pronoun

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it replaces a noun or noun phrase (she, he, it, them, etc)

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Subject

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What the sentence is about

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Predicate

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The part of the sentence that contains the main verb and states something about the subject

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Subject Complement

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is the predicate that follows a linking verb and (blank) or completes, the subject by describing it or renaming it. (For instance, The sky is blue. The (blank) is blue.)

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Direct object

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The (blank) is the noun that receives the action of verb. For example, in the sentence—The cat sold the dog—"dog" is the (blank)

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Indirect object

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The (blank) is to whom or what the action of the verb is performed. For example—The cat sold me the dog— "me" is the (blank).

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Dependent clause

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A clause has a both a subject and a verb. A (blank) cannot stand by itself as a sentence; it also needs an independent clause. "Because I read the book" is an example of a (blank).

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Independent clause

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a (blank) clause has both a subject and verb and can stand by itself as a sentence.

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Adjective clause

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An (blank) clause has a subject and a verb, begins with a relative pronoun or adverb (who, whom, whose, that, which, when, where, or why) and it will answer what kind, how many, or which one.

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Adverb clause

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an (blank) clause contains a subject and a verb, starts with a subordinate conjunction (until, once, because, etc) and will answer how, when, or why.

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Prepositional phrase

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a phrase (two or more words that do not contain the subject-verb necessary to form a clause) that begins with a (blank); "Under the stairs" is an example of a (blank) phrase.

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Participial phrase

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a phrase (two or more words that do not contain the subject-verb necessary to form a clause) that beings with a past or present (blank) (usually an -ing or an -ed word). The following sentences both have (blanks): "Walking down the street, Lars fell off the curb" and "Stuffed from eating a dozen cookies, Lars couldn't eat dinner.

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Appositive phrase

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A noun or a noun phrase that renames another noun right beside it. For example, "The insect, an ugly cockroach, crawled across the floor."

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Fragment

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A (blank) is an incomplete sentence; it may need a subject or a predicate, or it may be a dependent clause.

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Run-on

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A (blank) sentence is two or more independent clauses that are "run" together. The sentence needs to be broken into multiple sentences or properly punctuated.

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Active voice

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When a sentence is written in (blank)voice, the subject of the sentence is doing the action.

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Passive voice

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When the sentence is in (blank) voice, the subject of the sentence is receiving he action.

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Parallel structure

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means using the same pattern of words to show that two or more ideas have the same level of importance. For instance, Mary likes hiking, swimming, and biking.

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Misplaced modifier

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a phrase that causes ambiguity or misunderstanding because of its awkward placement in a sentence.