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Stack #161704 L.Arts
Stack #161704 - Language Arts
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Tells something about the subject and usually comese after the subject. | Predicate |
| Is part of the complete subject. Is the main workd or word group that tells whom or what the sentence is about | Simple subject |
| Consists of all the words needed to tell whom or what the sentence is about. | Complete subject |
| Tells who or what the sentence is about and can come at the beginning, the middle or the end of a sentence. | Subject |
| is a word that is used in place of one or more nouns or pronouns. ??? | Pronouns |
| Helps the main verb to express action or a state of being | Helping verb or auxillary verb |
| Together, the main verb and its helping verb or berbs are called a | Verb phrase |
| Tells something about he subject or expresses action without the action passing to a receiver, or object | Instransitive verb |
| A verb that expresses an action directed toward a person, place, thing or idea. The actions passes from the doer to the receiver of the action | Transitive verb |
| Words that receive the action of a transitive verb are called | Objects. |
| A word that modifies a verb, and adjective, or another verb | Adverb |
| Adverbs aswer which questions? | Where? When? How? How often? How long? To what exent? How much? |
| Is a word or word group that is used to name a person, place, thing or idea | Noun |
| Refers to the one speaking (first person) or the one spoken to (second person) or the one spoken about (third person) | Personal pronoun |
| Is a single noun made up of two or more words used together. It may be written as one word, as a hypenated word, or as two or more words. | Compound pronoun |
| Contains one independent clause and at least one subordinate clause | Complex sentence |
| A sentence with two or more independent clauses and at least one subordinate clause | Compound-complex sentence |
| Consists of two or more independent clauses, usually joined by a commas and a connecting word | Compound sentence |
| names any one of a group of person, places, things, or ideas. It is usually NOT capitalized | Common noun |
| A word that shows the relationship between a noun or a pronoun and another word in the sentence | Preposition |
| Names a particular person, place, thing or idea and begins with a capital letters | Proper noun |
| Asks a question and ends with a question mark | Interrogative sentence |
| Shows excitement or expresses strong feeling and ends with an explamation point | Exlamatory sentence |
| Gives a command or makes a request. Most of these sentences end with a period. A strong command ends with an exlamation point | Imperative sentence |
| Makes a statement and ends with a period | Declarative sentence |
| Expresses either physical or mental activity | Action verb |
| Connects, or links, the subject to a word or word group that identifies or describes the subject | Linking verb |
| Includes a preposition, the object of the preposition, and any modifiers of that object. | Prespositional phrase |
| Are personal prounouns that are used to show ownership or possession | Possessive pronoun |
| A preposition always has at least one noun or pronoun as an object. This noun is called the | Object of the preposition |
| The preposition, its object and any modifiers make up a | Prepositional phrase |
| Has one independent clause and no subordinate clauses | Simple sentence |
| A preposition always has at least one noun or pronoun as an object. This never does | An adverb |
| Is a word group that contains a subject and a verb that expresses a complete thought | Sentence |
| Does express a complete thought and cannot stand by itself as a complete sentence | Subordinate (or dependent) clause |
| Is formed from a proper noun and begins with a capital letter | Proper adjectives |
| A, An, The | Articles |
| is a word used to modify a noun or pronoun | Adjective |
| To modify a word means to describe the word or to make its meaning more definite. An adjective modifies a noun or pronoun by telling what kind, which one, how many or how much. | To modify |
| Introduces an adjective clause (that, which, who, whom, whose) | Relative prounoun |
| Intoduces a question (what, which, who, whom, whose) | Interrogative pronoun |
| Is a subordinate clause that modifies a verby, and adjective, or an adverb | Adverb clause |
| Is a subordinate clause that modifies a noun or pronoun | Adjective clause |
| Some prepositions are made up of more than one word | Compound prepositions |
| Is a word group that looks like a sentence but either does not contain both a subject and a verb or does not express a complete thought | Sentence fragment |
| Is a word that expresses action or a state of being | Verb |
| A prepositional phrase that modifies a noun or pronoun | Adjective phrase |
| A prepositional phrase that is used to modify a verb, an adjective, or an adverb | Adverb phrase |
| Is a word group that contains a verb and its subject and that is used as as a sentence or as part of a sentence. | Clause |
| Expresses a complete thought and can stand by itself as a sentence | Independent (or, Main) clause |
| Consists of two or more verbs that are joined by a conjunction and that have the same subject | Compound verb |
| Consists of two or more subjects that are joined by a conjuction and that have the same verb | Compound subject |
| Is a group of related words that is used as a single part of speech and that does not contain both a verb and its subject | Phrase |
| Is a word that expresses emotion | Interjection |
| Are pairs of conjunctions that join words and word groups that are used in the same way | Correlative conjunctions |
| A word that joins words or groups of words | Conjunction |
| Points out a specific person, place, thing, or idea | Demonstative pronoun |
| Refers to a person, place, thing or idea that may or may not be specifically named. | Indefinite pronouns |
| Refers to the subject and is necessary to the basic meaning of the sentence | Reflexive pronoun |
| Emphasizes its antecedent and is unnecessary to the basic meaning of the sentence | Intensive pronoun |
| When (adjectives) they modify nouns or pronouns, there are called | Demonstrative adjectives |
| When they (pronouns) are used alone, the are called | Demonstative prounouns |
| These words can be used as both adjectives and pronouns | This, that, these, those |
| ?? Noun, or verb, is the main word or word group in a complete sentence? | Simple predicate |
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