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Lang. Arts Terms
Specific vocabulary expected to know for end-of-year TEST
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| sentence | a group of words that express a complete thought |
| declarative | a type of sentence that makes a statement or tells something |
| interrogative | a type of sentence that asks something |
| exclamatory | a type of sentence that shows strong feeling |
| imperative | a type of sentence that commands someone to do something or makes a request |
| subject | part of a sentence that names whom or what the sentence is about--Answers who is the doer. |
| predicate | part of the sentence that tells what the subject does or has. It can also describe what the subject is or is like.--Answers what action is taking place |
| fragment | does not express a complete thought--may be missing a subject , predicate or both. |
| complete subject | includes all of the words in the subject of the sentence |
| complete predicate | includes all of the words in the predicate of the sentence |
| simple subject | the main word/noun or group of words in the complete subject |
| simple predicate | the main word/verb or group of words in the complete predicate |
| compound subject | two or more subjects/nouns that have the same predicate joined by and, or, but |
| compound predicate | two or more verbs that have the same subject joined by and, or, but |
| compound sentence | a sentence that contains two or more simple sentences |
| complex sentence | a sentence that has one main clause and one or more subordinate clauses |
| run-on | two or more sentences incorrectly written as one sentence |
| main clause | a group of words containing a subject and a predicate (independent) |
| subordinate clause | is a group of words in a sentence that cannot stand alone as a sentence (dependent) |
| noun--common & proper | a word that names a person, place, thing or idea...school or All Saints Catholic |
| action verb | a word that expresses an action, such as run, inspire, create, jump |
| linking verb | a word that expresses a state of being, such as is, was, were, have, are |
| direct object | a word that receives the action of a verb. It answers the question whom? or what? after an action verb making it a transitive verb. |
| indirect object | a word that answers the question to whom? or for whom? the action was done. It always comes before the direct object in a sentence. |
| subject pronoun | A personal pronoun that is used as a subject. Examples: I, you, he, she,it, we, they. |
| object pronoun | A personal pronoun that is used as the direct or indirect object of a verb. Examples: me, you, him, her, it, us, them. |
| possessive pronoun | A pronoun in the possessive case. It shows who or what has something. Examples: my, your, her, his, its, our, your, their, mine, yours... |
| predicate nominative or predicate noun | a noun that follows a linking verb and tells what the subject is..answers what? |
| predicate adjective | an adjective that follows a linking verb and describes the subject ...answers what? |
| adjective | a word that describes a noun or a pronoun...beautiful, smart... |
| proper adjective | are adjectives formed from proper nouns...Italian, French... |
| demonstrative adjective | Pronouns used to point out something...this, that, these, those. |
| adverb | a word that modifies or describes a verb, an adjective or another adverb usually ends in -ly...tells how, when, where, why, to what extent, or under what conditions. |
| conjunction | a word used to connect parts of a sentence...and, but, or, for, so, yet, nor... |
| preposition | a word that relates a noun or pronoun to some other word in a sentence... of, during, after, to, from, inside, below..."whatever a plane can do to a cloud" |
| object of the preposition | the noun or pronoun that ends the prepositional phrase |
| adjective phrase | a phrase that modifies or describes a noun in the main clause |
| adverb phrase | a phrase that modifies or describes a verb in the main clause |
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