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Language Arts terms
Study guide for language arts terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| chronological order, true facts, part or all of life, written by another person | biography criteria |
| has two sentences combined with and, or, but with a comma | compound sentence |
| has two or more subjects | compound subject sentence |
| the subject is doing two or more actions | compound predicate |
| someone telling the story | narrator |
| opposites | antonym |
| similar | synonym |
| reference book that gives synonyms and antonyms | thesaurus |
| ending | conclusion |
| main thought | topic |
| shows movement | action verb |
| links the subject to the predicate and stands ALONE -- is, are, was, were, am | linking verb |
| helps ANOTHER verb-- is, are, was, were, am, have, has, had, could, should, would, might, may, can, will | helping verb |
| helping verb and main verb together | verb phrase |
| one subject and one predicate sentence, no compounds | simple sentence |
| sounds the same, spelled differently, means differently-- sea/see | homophone |
| sounds the same, spelled the same, means differently-- bark/ b | homography |
| question | interrogative |
| command | imperative |
| excitement | exclamatory |
| statement | declarative |
| first person pronouns that appear in first writing; narrator is in the story talking | I, me, we, us, our, my, mine |
| third person writing pronouns; narrator is outside of the story | they, her, she, him, them, his, it, he, you |
| comma use-- letter salutation | Dear Fred, |
| comma use-- letter closing | Yours truly, |
| comma use-- dates | Friday, September 30, 2000 |
| comma use-- appositive | George, my dad, likes to fish |
| comma use-- talking directly | Helen, sit down. or Sit down, Helen. |
| comman use-- series | She likes legends, myths, and fantasies |
| comma use-- interjections | yes, no, hello, hi, hey, well, at the beginning of the sentence |