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GRAMMAR: WOL vocab2A
Well-Ordered Language Level 2A Vocab Review
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| declarative sentence | makes a statement; ends with a period |
| interrogative sentence | asks a question; ends with a question mark |
| imperative sentence | gives a command; ends with a period or exclamation mark |
| exclamatory sentence | expresses mild or strong feeling; ends with an exclamation point |
| predicate verb (PV) | action verb showing what the subject does; Transitive verbs have a direct object (do). Intransitive verbs do not have a direct object. |
| subject | always a noun or pronoun; tells what the sentence is about; It's the 1st of the 2 principal elements in a sentence. |
| complete predicate | tells something about the subject, such as what it is doing or being; It includes the verb or verb phrase and all the words that go with it, such as adjectives, adverbs, etc; It's the 2nd of the 2 principal elements in a sentence. |
| noun | part of speech that names a person, place, thing, or idea; may be singular or plural |
| verb | part of speech that shows action or a state of being; 4 classes of verbs are: transitive, intransitive, linking verb, helping verb |
| adjective | part of speech used to describe a noun or pronoun; It tells"which one", "what kind", "how many", or "whose". |
| adverb | part of speech that describes a verb, adjective, or adverb; It tells "how", "when", or "where". |
| pronoun | part of speech used in place of a noun |
| interjection | part of speech that is a word or short phrase that expresses strong emotion |
| preposition | part of speech used to show the relationship between certain words in a sentence; Some common prepositions are aboard, about, above, before, behind, below, down, during, except, for, from, inside, into, near, of , off, on, out, over, past. |
| article adjective | There are 3 article adjectives (or articles). They are the words, "a", "an", and "the". |
| conjunction | part of speech that joins words, phrases, or clauses; Some common conjunctions are "for", "and", "nor", "but", "or", "yet", "so". |
| helping verb | verb that helps another verb to form a verb phrase; There are 23: am, is, are, was, were, be, being, been, has, have, had, do, does, did, may, might, must, should, could, would, shall, will, can. |
| possessive noun | noun that functions as an adjective; describes another noun by telling "whose" |
| Be Verbs | am, is, are, was, were, be, being, been; They express a state of being when used as a linking verb. |
| linking verb | verb that joins subject to predicate. joins subject to either a predicate noun (PN) or a predicate adjective (PA); the 8 Be Verbs are some common linking verbs |
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