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Vocabulary spelling
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| to recant, renounce, repuidiate under oath | abjure |
| a, an, and the | articals |
| the name of anything, a person place or thing As: school or garden, toy, or swing | Noun |
| tell the kind of noun, describes a noun As: great, small, pretty, white, or brown | adjectives |
| tell of something being done, an action To: read, write, count, sing, jump, or run | verbs |
| tells how things are done As: slowly, quickly, badly, well | adverbs |
| join the words together, As: men and women, wind or weather | conjunction |
| stands before a noun as : in or throught the a door | prepositions |
| show superise | interjection |
| takes the place of a noun | pronoun |
| is a shortended version of a written word or phrase used to replace the original | abbreviation |
| is the comparison of two simmilar ideas in order to explain one | analogy |
| is one that cannot stand as a complete sentence, because it does not express a complete thought | dependent clause |
| is the use of an expression , witch is often mildly ssarcastic or humorous, to express the oppisite of its literal meaning | irony |
| denostes a quantity grater than one | plural |
| denostes only one | singular |
| the letters A,E,I,O,U are calles vowels | vowels |
| all letter in the althabet that are not vowels | consonants |
| an abbreviation version of a word or words | contraction |
| a word that is pronounced the same as another word with a different meaning | homonym |
| application to any sentence or construction that ask a question | interrogative |
| a figure of speech, it asserts that one thing is something that it literakky is not | metaphor |
| a noun, that is being acted by a verb or preposition | object |
| mainly used to modify verbs they are used to express when, where, how, for what reason or to what degree an action is preformed | adverbs |
| is added to the frount of a word to change its meaning | prefix |