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english 094
final exam: major error word bank
| word | description |
|---|---|
| expletive | a word that occupies the traditional subject positon in a sentence,yet it is not a subject. |
| phrase | a group pf related words that is missing either a subject, a complete predicate, or both. |
| clause | a group of related words that conatins botha subject and a predicate,but cannit necessarily stand alone as a complete sentence. |
| dependent clause | a group of related words containing both a subject and a predicate that CANNOT stand alone as a complete sentence. |
| suboratinating conjunction | a word or phrase making a clause as depnedent and establishing a connection between the dependent and indepndent clause. |
| relative pronoun | a word such as "who" "whom" "which" "that" or "whose" that introduses a dependent clasue functioning as a adjective. |
| adjective | a word or phrase that describes nouns, pronouns or other adjectives. |
| independenet clause | a group of related words containing both a subject and a predicate that can stand alone as a complete sentence. |
| conjuction | a conjuntion is a word that joins or links other words, phrase, or clasues. conjunctions connect graammical units. |
| coordinating conjuctions | the prefexs "co" means equal so a coordianting conjuction joins or links together elements of equal/similar grammalical functions. |
| compound subject | two or more elements acting as a subject joined by a coordinating conjuncton and shared the same predicate |
| compound predicate | two or more actions that are carried out by the subject and joined by a coordinating conjunction |
| senctence fragment | |
| terminal puncuation | a punctuation makes signaling the end of a complete idea or sentence. |
| comma splice | two or more idependent classes that are joined together by means of only a simple comma. |
| fused sentence | two or more independent clause improperly joined together with no punctuation at all between them. |
| conjunctive adverb | a traditional word included as part of sn independent clause that expresses a persise relationship between it and another independent clause. |
| perposition | a word or words that indicate the relationship of a noun or a pronoun to other parts of the sentence. |
| perpostional phrase | beginning with a prepasitional and ending with a noun or pronoun that serves as its object, including all words in between. |
| object by the preposition | the noun or pronoun in a prepasition /phrase thst the prepasition refers to. |
| pronoun | a word that stands in place of a pronoun and functions as a noun. |
| main verb | the primary action of a subject,usually included as partof a full predicate. |
| auxiliary helping verb | a verb that can stand alone as a main verb, or combine if necessary, iwth a main verb to complete its meaning. |
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