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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are the Parts of speech in Santoro order? | Noun,Pronoun,verb,adverb, adjective,conjunction, interjection,preposition |
| Used to seperate words in a series of three or more and to seperate adjectives of equal importance in front of a noun | Comma |
| Used after an interjection or to end an exclamatory sentence | Exclamation point |
| To seperate independent clauss in a compound sentence when the clause is not joined by a conjunction | Semicolon |
| Before a list of terms; after a salutation | Colon |
| To enclose dialogue and direct quatation | Quotation Marks |
| Used for titles books, movies, plays, newspapers,magazines,and any works of art. | Italiics |
| to show possession | apostrophe |
| To connect the parts of a compound number | hyphen |
| Indicates a sudden change of thought | dash |
| Consists of one independent clause | Simple Sentence |
| Contains two or more independent clauses | Compound Sentence |
| contains one independent and one more depentent clauses | Complex Sentence |
| Joins words or groups of words that are similar. | Coordinating Conjunctions |
| Used in pairs to connect words or groups of words tnat have parallel structure in a sentence. | Correlative Conjunction |
| connects independent clauses and help to make their relationship clear | Conjunctive Adverb |
| Used to join an independent clause and a dependent clause and to indicate their relationship | subordinate conjunction |
| Frequently confused with prepositions | Troublesome conjunctions |
| Complete thought | principal clause |
| not a complete thought | subordinate clause |
| Group of words that contains a subject and a predicaate | Clause |
| dependent clause, which modifies a noun or a pronoun | adjective clause |
| Dependent clause used as an adverb | adverbial clause |
| Adjective clauses are essential to the meaning of the sentences. | restrictive clauses |
| adjective clause that is not essential and that can be removed without changing the meaning of the sentence | nonrestrictive clause |
| ways of subordinate clause | subject, appositivie, direct object, object of prepostion |
| tells about an action that is repeated or that is always true | simple present tense |
| tells about an action or a condition that happened in the past | simple past tense |
| tells about an action or a condition that will happen in the future | simple future tense |
| Verb tenses | simple present tense, simple past tense, simple future tense |
| Subject is the doer of the action | active voice |
| the subject is the reciever of the action | passive voice |
| expressesman action that passes from a doer to a reciever | transitive verb |
| no reciever of the action | intransitive verb |
| joins the subject with a subject complement | linking verbs |
| a verb form ending in -ing that is used as a noun | gerund |
| may include a direct object and modifiers | gerund phrase |
| the ways of a gerund | Subject complement, direct object,objects of prepositions, appositives |