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Comstock English
Sentences, Writing Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Antecedent | The noun to which a pronoun refers EX: Martha is the antecedent for the pronoun her in the following sentence: Martha took her lunch outside. |
| Appositive | A word that renames the noun that comes before it (EX: My sister, JANE, is funny) |
| Chronological | Arranged according to time |
| Colon | : (introduces a list) Buy these things at the store: apples, bananas, and grapes. |
| Complex Sentence | Sentence that has 1 independet clause and 1 or more dependent clause |
| Compound Complex Sentence | Has 2 sentences and 1 or more dependent clauses (EX When I came to school this morning, I was cold, and I wished I had brought my sweater) |
| Compound Sentence | Two or more simple sentences joined by a comma and a conjunction (EX: I am cold, and I think I should get a jacket.) |
| Declarative Sentence | a telling sentence, a statement which ends in a period (EX: I am happy) |
| Exclamatory Sentence | A sentence that shows a lot of emotion and ends with an exclamation point (EX: I won the lottery!) |
| Expository | Writing that is used to explain |
| Homophone | Words that sound alike but are spelled differently |
| Imperative Sentence | A command or request ending with a period or exclamation point (EX: Bring that book here.) |
| Independent Clause | Part of a sentence that has a subject and a verb and makes sense (EX: The dog is little) |
| Interrogative Sentence | A sentence that questions and ends with a question mark (EX: Did you have fun today?) |
| Simple Sentence | Has a complete subject and Verb and makes sentence alone (EX: Homework is fun.) |
| Topic Sentence | The main sentence in a paragraph. It often comes first and tells what the paragraph will be about |
| Transition | A word, phrase, or series of sentences connecting 1 part of wirting to another (next, first, then, finally) |
| Thesis | The main sentence in your essay. it usually comes last in the fist paragraph and tells the reader what the essay will be about. |
| Precise/Percision | When word choice is precise, the wording is exact. It means the best word is used and the description is detailed. |
| Semi-Colon | Most often used in place of a period, to emphasize that two sentences are connected |
| Quotation Marks | " " Used to show a speaker's exact words or to punctuate titles of poems, short stories, articles |
| Simple Subject | Who or what is doing the action in the sentence (EX FRED is bossy) |
| Simple Predicate | the main verb in the sentence (EX: The boy RAN around the block) |
| Argument | What the writer or author is trying to convince you of |
| Compound Predicate | When you have two main verbs in a sentence (He RUNS and JUMPS) |
| Compound Subject | When you ahve two subjects doing the action (Jose and Joe sing) |
| Dependent Clause | has a subject and a predicate (verb) but doesn't make sense along (EX: When I woke up) |
| Phrase | a group of words that go together in a sentence that do NOT contain a verb (EX: in the morning) |
| Clause | A group of words that go together that contain a subject and a verb and can be part of a sentence or a simple sentence EX: When I got up this morning) |
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