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Elida Lesson 33,34,3
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| period | completes a thought in a declarative sentence |
| question mark | completes an interrogative sentence |
| exclamation point | completes an interjection or an exclamatory sentence |
| commas | separates items in a series |
| semicolon | joins two equal sentence elements which could be sentences on their own |
| apostrophe | shows possession |
| quotation marks and question marks | show an exact quote |
| subject/verb agreement | singular subjects take singular verb forms plural subjects take plural verb forms |
| compound subjects | compound subjects are treated as a plural subject |
| intervening phrases | a phrase separates subject and verb |
| inverted subject and verb | the natural order of subject/verb is reversed |
| verb tenses | regular verbs add -d or -ed to form the past tense regular verbs add have and -ed to form the past participle |
| capitalize | to use as or convert into capital |
| spelling | the process or activity of writing or naming the letters of a word |
| homophones | each of two or more words having the same pronunciation but different meanings, origins, or spelling |