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unit 1 l.a. notes
unit test notes
Question | Answer |
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Has the setting, characters, and mood | exposition |
Has the protagonist (good guy), the antagonist (bad guy), and the drama or conflict | rising action |
The turning point or the most intense point. | climax |
The outcome of the conflict or the resulting events. | falling action |
The conclusion or tying together of the story. | Resolution |
A group of words that express a complete thought. | sentence |
4 types of sentences | Declaritive, imperative, interrogative, and exclamatory |
declarative sentence | Makes a statement and ends with a period. |
interrogative sentence | Asks a question and ends with a question mark. |
imperative sentence | Gives a command or makes a request and ends with a period. |
exclamatory sentence | Expresses strong feeling and ends with an exclamation point. |
subject of a sentence | will never be in a prepositional phrase, who the sentence is about, usually at the beginning of the sentence. |
simple subject | the most important word or words of the subject, usually a noun or a pronoun. |
simple predicate | Always a verb, most important word or words in the predicate. the verb may be one or several words. |
What is a conjunction | A connecting word |
coordinating conjunctions are: | most popular type of conjunction fanboys: for, and, nor, but, or, yet, and so. |
correlative conjunctions are | conjunctions that are used in pairs |
correlative conjunctions: | both...and either...or neither...nor whether...or. |
what is a sentence fragment? | A group of words that does not express a complete thought, or does not have both a subject and a predicate. |
What is a run-on sentence? | two or more sentences that run together without the correct punctuation |
how do you fix a run-on sentence? | Use the correct punctuation or use a conjuction |