midterm 2014
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| a sentence | a word or word group that contains a subject and a verb and that expresses a thought
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| sentence fragment | a group of word that looks like a sentence but does not contain both a subject and a verb
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| subject | tells whom or what the sentence is about
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| simple subject | the main word that tells what the sentence is about
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| predicate | the part of the sentence that tells something about the subject
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| simple predicate/ verb | the main word that tells what something about the subject
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| compound subject | consists of 2 or more connected subjects that has the same verb
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| compound verb | 2 or more verbs that have the same subject
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| declarative sentence | makes a statement and ends with a period
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| imperative sentence | gives a command and ends with a period
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| interrogative sentence | asks a question and ends with a question mark
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| exclamatory sentence | shows excitement and ends with an exclamation mark
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| noun | a word that is used to name a person, place, thing, or idea
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| common noun | names any one of a group of persons, place, things, ideas
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| proper noun | names a specific noun
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| concrete nouns | a person place or thing that can be perceived by one or more of the senses
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| abstract nouns | names a felling, and idea, a quality, or a characteristic
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| collective nouns | a word that names a group
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| pronoun | a word that is used in place of one or more nouns or pronouns
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| personal pronouns | refers to the one speaking, the one spoken to, or the one spoken about
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| reflexive pronouns | refers to the subject and functions as a complement or an object of a preposition
ends in self or selves
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| intensive pronouns | emphasises a noun or another pronoun and is not nessary in the sentence.
ends in self or selves
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| demonstrative pronouns | points out a person, place, thing, or idea
~ this, that, these, those
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| interrogative pronouns | introduces a question
~what, which, who, whom, whose
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| relative pronouns | connects a word or word group and does not introduce a question
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| indefinite pronouns | refers to a person, place, thing, or idea that may or may may not be specifically named
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| adjectives | a word used to modify a noun or a pronoun.
describes what kind, which one, and how many
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| articles | a, an, the
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| verbs | a word used to express an action or state of being
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| action verbs | a verb that expresses either a physical or mental activity
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| linking verbs | connects the subject to a word or word group that identifies or describes the subject
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| transitive verbs | a verb that expresses an action directed towards a noun
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| intransitive verbs | express action without the action passing to a receiver
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| adverb | a word that modifies a verb, adjective, or another adverb
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| adverbs answers... | where, when, how, or to what extent
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| prepositions | a word that shows the relationship of a noun or pronoun
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| conjunctions | a word used to join words or word groups together
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| correlative conjunctions | pairs of conjunctions that join words or word groups that are used in the same way
EX:both...and, either...or, neither...nor, not only... but also
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| coordinating conjunctions | join words that are used in the same way
EX: and, but, for, nor, or, so, yet
Remembered by FANBOYS
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| interjections | a word used to express an emotion
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| direct objects | a noun, pronoun, or word group that tells who or what receives the action of the verb
answers the questions 'Who' or 'what' after a transitive verb
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| indirect objects | a noun, pronoun, or word group that sometimes appears in sentences containing direct objects
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| predicate nominatives | a word group that is in the predicate and that identifies the subject or refers to it
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| predicate adjective | an adjective that is in the predicate and that describes the subject
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