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Vocabulary
EOC Ch. 7
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| conventions | are the standard features of writing,speaking, reading, and listening |
| Nouns | thing or person |
| Pronouns | replaces a noun |
| Verbs | action verbs, helping verbs |
| Adjectives | modify or describe a noun |
| Adverbs | modify or describe a verb, an adjective or another adverb |
| Prepositions | link a noun to another word |
| Conjunctions | join words, sentences, or clauses together |
| Interjections | short exclamation that is sometimes inserted into a sentence |
| Parallel construction | is a way of joining similar ideas and giving them emphasis through repetition |
| phrase | is a group of words that acts as a single unit in a sentence, but it lacks either a subject or a predicate or both |
| Noun phrase | is made up of a noun and its modifiers in the sentence |
| Verb phrase | is a group of words working together to act as a verb |
| Adjectival phrase | is a group of words acting as an adjective |
| Adverbial phrase | is a group of words acting as an adverb |