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GfW Terms 1
ELA vocabulary for 7th and 8th grade
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| sentence | a group of words that begins with a capital letter, contains a subject and a predicate, expresses a complete thought, and ends with an appropriate punctuation mark |
| complete subject | the simple subject and all words and phrases that go with it |
| complete predicate | the simple predicate and all words and phrases that go with it |
| sentence fragment | only part of a sentence |
| subordinate clause | a group of words that is part of a sentence and cannot stand on its own |
| subject | tells who or what the sentence is about |
| predicate | tells what the subject does, is, has, or feels |
| verb | a word that expresses action, being, or state of being |
| verb phrases | one or more helping verbs plus a main verb |
| inverted sentence | a sentence in which the subject comes after the verb |
| compound subject | two or more subjects with the same verb |
| compound verb | two or more verbs with the same subject |
| direct object | a noun, pronoun, or group of words that tells who or what receives the action of the verb |
| linking verb | a verb that does not express action, but instead joins the subject with a subject complement |
| subject complement | a noun, pronoun, or adjective that follows a linking verb and that identifies or describes the subject |
| predicate nominative | a noun or pronoun that identifies or renames the subject and that follows a linking verb |
| predicate adjective | an adjective that describes the subject and that follows a linking verb |
| plagiarism | presenting someone else’s words as if they were your own, whether you mean to or not |
| action verb | a verb that shows a physical or mental action |
| some linking verbs | am, appear, are, become, feel, grow, is, look, seem, smell, sound, taste, was, were |
| some helping verbs | be, been, being, can, did, do, does, have, is, were, will |
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