English: Teas V Grammar And Word Meaning In Context

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Adjective

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A descriptive word that modifies a noun or pronoun

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Adverb

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A word hat modifies a verb, adjective, or another adverb and indicates when, how, where, why or how much "Ly"

-poorly, well

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Article

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A word that is used to limit a noun, either indefinite ( a and an) or definite (the)

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Clause

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A group of words that is related and contain both a subject and a verb

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Direct object

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The noun or pronoun that receives the action of the verb and answers the question whom, or what

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Noun

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A word for a person, place and thing

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Object of preposition

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The noun, pronoun, phrase or clause t which the preposition refers

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Phrase

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A group of words that is related but do not contain a verb and subject together

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Possessive pronoun

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Pronoun used to indicate ownership

Mine,your, their, our

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Preposition

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A word such as by, at, to or from that fixes additional information, usually in relationship to something else in the sentence

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Pronoun

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A word that replaces and refers to a noun

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Subject

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A noun or pronoun that performs the action of the verb. If a sentence contains a verb of being or linking verb such as be, feel,become, or look the subject of the sentence is the noun or pronoun being described.

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Verb

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A word that shows an action or state of being

-go, went,planned,take

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Prepositions

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The boy can sit on the box, by the box, above the box, bellow e box, around the box, or near the box

-to,from

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Irregular verb

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Feel

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To make a verb past tense

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Add -Ed

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Antecedent

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The noun that a pronoun refers back to (her)

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Point of view

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The prospective from which an author writes

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First person

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I and my, and possibly we and our

More personal

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Second person

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Uses the pronoun you

-textbooks, study guides, emails is informal

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Third person

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Most formal type of writing,

A everyone or, nouns like people

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Coordinating conjunctions

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Are words that join two or more words phrases or clauses

For, and, nor, but, or, yet and so
(FANBOYS)

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Subordinating conjunction

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A word that joins two or more clauses and makes the clause that contains it dependent on another clause.

Because, though, although, a, as if, when, and while

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Nominalization

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Refers to the making of a noun from a verb, adverb, and adjective

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Active verb

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Ae verbs that show an action performed by the subject of a sentence

Ex. My aunt stated that the red vehicle hit the b,ack vehicle.

Stated active verb

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Passive verbs

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Ae comprised of be plus a past participle that shifts the action of a sentence from the subject to the object of a suntan

-can eliminate the doer

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Passive voice

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Useful in situations for which the writer does not wish to assign blame

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Context clue

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Are words surrounding an unfamiliar word that can help in discerning the meaning of the unfamiliar word.

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Definition

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The definition of the unfamiliar word in a given sentence

Ex. In his woodworking, he used a type of file known as a rasp. (Rasp)

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Description

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A description of an unfamiliar word is given in the sentence

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Example

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Examples of the unfamiliar word are given in the sentence

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Synonym

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A synonym if e unfamiliar word Is given in the sentence . "The same"

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Antonym

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An antonym of the unfamiliar word is given in the sentence. The opposite

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Comparison

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A comparison is used in the sentence that helps give meaning

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Contrast

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The unfamiliar word is contrasted to known words or phrases

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Explanation

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The unfamiliar word is defined in the sentence through an explanation of the situation

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Word structure

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The way in which parts of the words are arranged together

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Etymology

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Refers to the history' of a given word and its origin

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Root word

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Is a word in its simplest form before any affixes are attached

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Suffix

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Of a word is a group of letters added to the end of a word that modifies or extends the words meaning

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Prefix

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A word is a group of letters added to the beginning of a word that modifies or extends the words meaning

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Simple sentence

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Is sentence that contains only one clause that has a complete meaning

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Independent clause

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A clause that has a complete meaning

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Dependent clause

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Is a clause that is made dependent or incomplete because of additional subordinating conjunction

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Periodic sentence

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Complicated sentence structures, in which the meaning or point of a sentence is delayed until the end, usually in the form of an independent clause

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Cumulative sentence

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Or loose sentence, in which the independent clause of the sentence comes first and is followed by modifiers that further develop the initial idea