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28 Cards in this Set
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Noun:
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: word or group of words that names a person, place thing, or idea.
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Common Noun:
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: the general, not the particular name of a person, place, or a thing
(e.g. nurse, hospital, syringe) |
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Proper Noun:
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: the official name of a person, place, or a thing. Proper nouns are capitalized.
(e.g. Susan, Houston) |
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Abstract Noun:
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: the name of a quality or a general idea.
(e.g. persistence, democracy) |
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Collective Noun:
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: a noun that represents a group of persons, animals, or things.
(e.g. family, flock, furniture) |
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Pronoun:
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: a word that takes the place of a noun, another pronoun, or a group of words acting as a noun. (e.g. their)
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Personal Pronoun:
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: refers to a specific person, place, thing, or idea by indicating the person speaking (e.g. we, you, them)
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Possessive Pronoun:
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: a forn of personal pronoun that shows posession or ownership.
(e.g. my, mine, his, hers) |
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Adjective:
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: word, phrase, or clause that modifies a noun or pronoun.
(e.g. hard, three, many) |
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Verb:
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: word or phrase that is used to express an action or a state of being.
(e.g. works, worked, will work) |
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Adverb:
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: word, phrase, or clause that modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb.
(e.g. quite) |
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Preposition:
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: shows the relationship of a noun or pronoun to some other word in the sentance
(e.g. as, at, before, on, off) |
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Conjuction:
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: joins words, phrases, or clauses.
(e.g. and, but, or, so, nor, yet) |
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Interjection:
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: word or phrase that expresses emotion or exclamation.
(e.g. yikes, whew) |
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Clause:
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: a group of words that has a subject and a predicate.
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Independent Clause:
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: expresses a complete thought and can stand alone as a sentance.
(e.g. The professor distributed the examinations....) |
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Dependent Clause:
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: does not express a complete thought and therefore cannot stand alone as a sentance.
(e.g As soon as the students were seated..... |
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Direct Object:
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: the person or thing thta is directly affected by the action of the verb.
(answers what, whom after the transitive verb) |
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Indirect Object:
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: the person or thing that is indirectly affected by the action of the verb.
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Phrase:
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: a group of two or more words that acts as a single part of speech in a sentance.
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Predicate:
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: part of the sentance that tells what the subject does or what is done to the subject.
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Predicate Adjective:
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: an adjective that follows a linking verb and helps to explain the subject.
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Predicate Nominative:
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: a noun or pronoun that follows a linking verb and helps to explain the subject.
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Sentence:
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: a group of words that expresses a complete thought.
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Subject:
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: a word, phrase, or clause that names whom or what the sentance is about.
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Subject-Verb Agreement:
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: subject must agree with its verb in number.
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Comma in a Compound Sentence:
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: a sentance that has two or more independent clauses. (two stand alone statements)
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Run-On Sentance:
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: occurs when two or more complete sentences are written as though they were one sentence.
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