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English Final
| Question | Answer | |
|---|---|---|
| Adjective Phrase | Adjectives describe nouns by answering one of these three questions: What kind is it? How many are there? Which one is it? | Ex A towel that is still warm from the dryer is more comforting than... The students, five freshmen and six sophomores, braved Dr. Ribley's killer calculus exam. The cockroach eyeing your cookie has started to crawl |
| Adverb Phrase | Adverbs answer one of these four questions: How? When? Where? and Why? Adverbs tweak the meaning of verbs, adjectives, other adverbs, and clauses. | Lenora rudely grabbed the last chocolate cookie. -- The adverb rudely fine-tunes the verb grabbed. |
| Adverb Phrase 2 | Adverbs can also be multi-word phrases and clauses. | "At 2 a.m., a bat flew through Deidre's open bedroom window. The prepositional phrase at 2 a.m. indicates when the event happened. The second prepositional phrase, through Deidre's open bedroom window, describes where the creature traveled. |
| adverb clause | meets three requirements: 1 will contain subject and verb. 2 U also find a subordinate conjunction that keeps clause from expressing a complete thought. 3, you will notice that the clause answers one of these three adverb questions: How? When? or Why? | Ex Tommy scrubbed the bathroom tile until his arms ached. How did Tommy scrub? Until his arms ached, an adverb clause. |
| Independent Clauses, main . | Every clause has at least a subject and a verb. main clause will follow this pattern: subject + verb = complete thought | Ex Lazy students whine. |
| Dependent Clause (subordinate) | remember about subordinate clauses is that they can never stand alone as complete sentences. | Ex Whenever lazy students whine -- needs to attach to main clause |
| Noun Clause | Any clause that functions as a noun becomes a noun clause. | Ex You really do not want to know what Aunt Nancy adds to her stew. What Aunt Nancy adds to her stew = noun clause. |
| Noun Phrase | Noun phrase includes a noun—a person, place, or thing—and the modifiers which distinguish it. | Ex: Aunt Audrey's dog, the dog on the sofa, the neighbor's dog that chases our cat, the dog digging in the new flower bed. |
| Relative clause | begins with a relative pronoun [such as who, whom, whose, which, or that] or a relative adverb [when, where, or why]. | Ex Where he chews and drools with great enthusiasm Where = relative adverb; he = subject; chews, drools = verbs. needs to connect with main clause |
| Prepositional phrases: | a prepositional phrase will begin with a preposition and end with a noun, pronoun, gerund, or clause, the "object" of the preposition. | Ex From my grandmother From = preposition; my = modifier; grandmother = noun. |
| Participle phrase | Participle phrases always function as adjectives, adding description to sentence. Begins with a present or past participle. If participle is present, it will dependably end in ing. Likewise, a regular past participle will end in a consistent ed. | Ex: Glazed with barbecue sauce, the rack of ribs lay nestled next to a pile of sweet coleslaw." |
| Verb Phrase | Every sentence must have a verb. To depict doable activities, writers use action verbs. To describe conditions, writers choose linking verbs. | Ex Offering her license and registration, Selena sobbed (verb) |
| Colon | common use of the colon is to inform the reader that what follows the colon proves, explains, defines, describes, or lists elements of what preceded it. | Williams was so hungry he ate everything in the house: chips, cold pizza, pretzels and dip, hot dogs, peanut butter and candy. |
| Semi Colon | [ ; ] is a powerful mark of punctuation with three uses. | Ex: 3 types of use: 1) Grandma still rides her Harley motorcycle; her toy poodle balances in a basket. 2) My father does not approve of his mother riding in town on a Harley motorcycle; however, Grandma never cared what anyone thinks. 3) Grandmother and h |
| Parallel Structure | Parallel structure means using the same pattern of words to show that two or more ideas have the same level of importance. | 1) With the -ing form (gerund) of words: Parallel: Mary likes hiking, swimming, and bicycling. 2) With infinitive phrases: Parallel: Mary likes to hike, to swim, and to ride a bicycle. OR Mary likes to hike, swim, and ride a bicycle. |
| Absolute Phrase | An absolute phrase combines a noun and a participle | Our fingers scraping the leftover frosting off the plates Ex Fingers = noun; scraping = participle; frosting = direct object; our, the, leftover, off the plates = modifiers. |
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