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54 Cards in this Set
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Action verb |
A Verb that expresses something that a person, animal, object or process in nature can do Eat, walk, float |
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Active voice |
The Subject of the Sentence is doing the acting. He broke the window. The teacher cancelled class. |
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Adjective |
A class of words that modify nouns and pronouns by describing a particular quality of the word they are modifying. A Descriptor Beautiful, Adorable |
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Adverb |
Any word that functions as a modifier of verbs or clauses (Place, Time, Manner, Circumstance) Quickly, wearily |
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Agent |
A person or business authorized to act on another's behalf, Postman, King |
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Antonym |
A word opposite in meaning to another Opposite of good = bad |
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Auxiliary verb |
A word used in construction with and preceding certain forms of other verbs, as infinitives, or participles, to express distinctions of tense, aspect, mood, etc. will, do |
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Collocation |
A co-occurrence of lexical items bright idea, heavy smoker |
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Comparative |
Being, noting or pertaining to the intermediate degree of the comparison of adjectives smaller, bigger |
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Conjunction |
Hookin up words and phrases and clauses, sentences Because, for |
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Consonant |
Speech sound where the airstream is partially or completely blocked, or forced through a narrow opening d, s |
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Countable noun |
Things we can count dogs, dollars |
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Defining relative clause |
It relates to the rest of the sentence My brother Do you have anything that will help my sore throat? |
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Definite article |
The |
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Determiner |
the, my |
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False friends |
Czech Kriminal=Prison, English Criminal=Thief, Prisoner Spanish ropa = clothes, English rope = thick string |
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Gerund |
the Englsih -ing form of a verb when functioning as a noun, as Writing is easy. The Living is easy. |
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Homophone |
Two words with different spellings and meanings that sound the same bear/bare feat/feet |
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Indefinite article |
An article that denotes class membership of the noun it modifies without particularizing it. a, an |
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Indirect speech |
The reporting of something said or written by conveying the meaning, rather than the exact wording. He said they going to the beach. They said it was humid. |
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Indirect question |
A question reported in indirect speech Could you tell me where the school is? Could you tell me when the bus stops here? |
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Infinitive |
the simple or basic form of the verb to go, to eat |
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Interjection |
Any member of a class of words expressing emotion, distinguished by grammatical isolation Hey! Ouch! Yow! Rats! Ugh! Yikes! |
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Main verb |
A word used as the final verb in a verb phrase, expressing the lexical meaning of the verb phrase He rides a bicycle. She sips her beer. |
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Modal verb |
A verb that is used to indicate likelihood, ability, permission, and obligation Must, shall |
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Non-defining relative clause |
My parents, who are practicing Catholics, live in Texas. My friend, who never finished high school, has just started a car washing company. |
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Noun |
A Person, place or thing phone, car, window |
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Object |
anything that is visible or tangible. He loves football. The police have arrested three people. |
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Object questions |
What did he drop? (the glass) What will you read? (the newspaper) |
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Part of speech |
verb, noun |
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Passive voice |
The book was given to him by the teacher. The letter was written by her. |
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Past participle |
looked, talked |
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Personal pronoun |
I, you |
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Possessive pronoun |
mine, yours |
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Preposition of place |
in, at |
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Phrasal verb |
take off, put on |
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Present participle |
working, shopping |
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Preposition of time |
at, on |
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Preposition of movement |
through, across |
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Relative pronoun |
which, that |
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Sentence stress |
No, THEY haven't done it. WE have done it. |
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Subject |
Amanda went to the store. The child will come home soon. |
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Stative verb |
love, hate |
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Subject question |
Who kissed John? Who dropped the glass? |
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Superlative |
the best, the worst |
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Synonym |
great/wonderful, horrible, awful |
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Transitive verb |
She played the piano. He kicks the ball. |
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Verb |
run, jump |
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Voiced consonant |
d, z |
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Vowel |
a, e |
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Uncountable noun |
milk, sugar |
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Unvoiced consonant |
p, t |
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Word class |
noun, verb |
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Word stress |
Unity, united |
