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Mrs.Railsback's Flashcards
| Terms | Definition |
|---|---|
| Sentence Fragment | A group of words that express an incomplete thought. |
| Sentence | A group of words that express a complete thought. |
| Subject | Names the person, place, thing, of idea that the sentence is about. |
| Predicate | Tells something about the subject. |
| Complete Subject | Includes all the words used to identify the person, place, thing, of idea that the sentence is about |
| Simple Subject | The main word in the complete subject. |
| Complete Predicate | Includes all the words that tell what the subject is doing of that tell something about about the subject. |
| Simple Predicate/ Verb | The main word or phrase in the complete predicate. |
| Verb Phrase | Includes the main verb plus any helping, or auxiliary, verbs. |
| Compound Subject | Two or more subjects in one sentence that have the same verb and are joined by a conjuction. |
| Compound Verb | Formed when two or more verbs in one sentence have the same subject and are joined by a conjuction. |
| Natural Order | When the subject in a sentence comes before the verb. |
| Inverted Order | When the verb of part of a verb phrase comes before the subject. |
| Understood YOU | When the subject of a sentence is not stated. |
| Common Noun | Any person, place, or thing. |
| Proper Noun | A particular person, place, or thing |
| Pronoun | A word that takes the place of one or more nouns. |
| Antecedent | The noun a pronoun refers to or replaces. |
| Reflexive Pronouns | Refers to or emphasize another program or pronoun. |
| Indefinite Pronouns | Refers to unnamed people, places, things, or ideas |
| Demonstrative Pronouns | Pionts out a specific preson, place, thing, or idea. |
| Interrogative Pronouns | Used to ask plays |