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Reading Language Arts
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English
3rd Grade
03/26/2014

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Subject
Definition
A person, place, or thing. Who or what the sentence is about. It usually comes close to the beginning of the sentence.
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predicate /verb
Definition
A word that shows action. A verb tells what the subject is doing.
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pronoun
Definition
take the place of a noun
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declarative
Definition
a telling sentence. It has a period at the end.
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interrogative
Definition
a question sentence
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exclamatory
Definition
a question sentence
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imperative
Definition
gives a command; ends in a period
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Baseword/rootword
Definition
the original word without any prefix or suffix
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to
Definition
going somewhere
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too
Definition
more than enough, added
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two
Definition
counting
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their
Definition
belonging to someone
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there
Definition
to place an object
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they're
Definition
they are
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its
Definition
possessive pronoun
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it's
Definition
contraction for it is
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adjectives
Definition
words that describing nouns or pronouns
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adverbs
Definition
Adverbs answer how, when, where. They can end in ly.
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prefix
Definition
letters that are added to the beginning of a root word to make the meaning of the word different.
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suffix
Definition
letters that are added to the end of a root word to make the meaning of the word different.
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Capital letters
Definition
names, months, cities, states, holidays, proper nouns, addresses
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abbreviation
Definition
Mr. Mrs. Jr.
TN,TX,FL CA
Mon. Tues. Wed. Thurs. Fri. Sat. Sun.
Dec. Jan. Feb. Nov, Oct. Sept. Oct.
DR.--drive , Rd--road Ave. avenue St. street
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fable
Definition
a story usually with animals that teaches someone a lesson
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folktales
Definition
A story told by word of mouth haded down from generation to generation.
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myth
Definition
made up stories that try to explain the relationship between humans and supernatural ( Gods, and Goddesses, icorns, 2 headed snakes
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fairytales
Definition
stories that are not true. starts off with once upon a time and have characters such as witches, queens, kings, princesses, and use magic
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ABC order
Definition
to put words in order from A to Z
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