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EnglishExam2011
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| begins with a capital letter and ends with a period,question mark, or exclamation point. | sentence |
| a sentence with more than one subject and predicate. | compound sentence |
| The part of a sentence or clause that commonly indicates (a) what it is about, or (b) who or what performs the action. | subject |
| The part of a sentence or clause containing a verb and stating something about the subject. | predicate |
| A definite or clear expression of something in speech or writing. | statement |
| A sentence worded or expressed so as to elicit information. | question |
| an ungrammatical sentence in which two or more independent clauses are conjoined without a conjunction. | run-on sentence |
| A noun denoting a class of objects or a concept as opposed to a particular individual. | common noun |
| A name used for an individual person, place, or organization, spelled with initial capital letters. | proper noun |
| a grammatical number, typically referring to more than one of the referent in the real world. In the English language, singular and plural are the only grammatical numbers | plural noun |
| names who or what has or owns something. | possessive noun |
| a verb functioning to give further semantic or syntactic information about the main or full verb following it. | helping verb |
| The verb in a main clause. | main verb |
| Grammatical tense is a temporal linguistic quality expressing the time at, during, or over which a state or action denoted by a verb occurs. | verb tense |
| The process of shortening a word by combination. | contraction |
| A separate clause or paragraph of a legal document or agreement, typically one outlining a single rule or regulation. | article |
| A word or phrase naming an attribute, added to or grammatically related to a noun to modify or describe it. | adjective |
| A group of words taken from a text or speech and repeated by someone other than the original author or speaker. | quotation |
| A pronoun that is used as the subject of a sentence, such as "I", "he" or "we" in English. | subject pronoun |
| An objective pronoun in grammar functions as the target of a verb, as distinguished from a subjective pronoun, which is the initiator of a verb. Objective pronouns are instances of the oblique case. | object pronoun |
| A word or phrase that modifies or qualifies an adjective, verb, or other adverb or a phrase, expressing a relation of place, time, circumstance, manner, cause, degree, etc. | adverb |
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