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NALS CH.6_500801
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Active Voice | the voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is performing the action or causing the happening denoted by the verb; |
| Adjective | a word or phrase naming an attribute, added to or grammatically related to a noun to modify or describe it. |
| Collective Noun | a noun that denotes a group of individuals |
| Common Noun | a noun denoting a class of objects or a concept as opposed to a particular individual. |
| Complex Sentence | a sentence containing a subordinate clause or clauses. |
| Compound Adjective | a compound of two or more attributive words: That is, more than one word that together modify a noun. |
| Compound Noun | words written together, words that are hyphenated, or separate words that go together by meaning. |
| Compound Sentence | a sentence with more than one subject or predicate. |
| Compound-Complex Sentence | a sentence having two or more coordinate independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses. |
| Conjunctive Adverbs | A conjunctive adverb is a function word that connects two independent clauses. It also provides adverbial emphasis. |
| Conjunction | the action or an instance of two or more events or things occurring at the same point in time or space. |
| Coordinating Conjunction | a conjunction placed between words, phrases, clauses, or sentences of equal rank, e.g., and, but, or. |
| Correlative Conjunctions | A correlative conjunction is a coordinating conjunction that pairs up with other words to connect elements in a sentence. |
| Demonstrative Pronouns | Pronouns that point to specific things: this, that, these, and those. |
| Dependent Clause | is a clause that augments an independent clause with additional information, but which cannot stand alone as a sentence. |
| Direct Object | a noun phrase denoting a person or thing that is the recipient of the action of a transitive verb, for example the dog in Jimmy fed the dog |
| Ellipses | the omission from speech or writing of a word or words that are superfluous or able to be understood from contextual clues. |
| Gerund | a form that is derived from a verb but that functions as a noun, in English ending in -ing, e.g., asking in do you mind my asking you?. |
| Imperative Mood | mood that signals directive modality, especially in commands. Its use may be extended to signal permission. |
| Indefinite Pronouns | a pronoun that does not refer to any person, amount, or thing in particular, e.g., anything, something, anyone, everyone. |
| Indicative Mood | a mood (grammatically unmarked) that represents the act or state as an objective fact |
| Indirect Object | a noun phrase referring to someone or something that is affected by the action of a transitive verb (typically as a recipient), but is not the primary object (e.g., him in give him the book ). |
| Infinitive | the basic form of a verb, without an inflection binding it to a particular subject or tense (e.g., see in we came to see, let him see ). |
| Interjection | an abrupt remark, made especially as an aside or interruption. |
| Interrogative Pronoun | often stands for something that we are not aware of yet, because we are asking about it. We |
| Intransitive Pronoun | transmits action to an object and may also have an indirect object, which indicates to or for whom the action is done. |
| Irregular Verb | |
| Mixed (Standard) Punctuation | |
| Noun | |
| Noun Clause | |
| Open Punctuation | |
| Orphan | |
| Participle | |
| Participle Phrase | |
| Passive Voice | |
| Past Participle | |
| Perfect Participle | |
| Personal Pronouns | |
| Phrase | |
| Possessive Pronouns | |
| Predicate Adjective | |
| Predicate Nominative | |
| Preposition(s) | |
| Present Participle | |
| Pronoun | |
| Proper Noun | |
| Reciprocal Pronouns | |
| Reflexive Pronouns | |
| Regular Verb | |
| Relative Pronoun | |
| Sentence | |
| Subjunctive Mood | |
| Subordinating Conjunction | |
| Tense of Verb | |
| Transitive Verb |
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