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| A concrete noun names an object that can be percieved by the senses. |
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| a noun is a word used to name a preson, place, thing or idea. |
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| A proper noun names a particular person, place, thing or idea. |
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| A common noun is a general name for a person, place, thing or idea. |
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| A collective noun names a group of persons or things. |
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| A compound noun consists of two or more words used together as a single noun. The parts of a compound noun may be written as one word, as two or more words, ora as a hyphenated word. ex. wheelchair Lake Erie sister-in-law |
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| A pronoun is a word used in place of one or more nouns. |
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| The noun that the pronoun replaces. ex. Shelley bought her books and put them on the table. |
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refers to the subject and directs the action of the verb back to the subject.
ex. myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself, ourselves, ourselves and themselves) ex. The guests can serve themselves. |
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| emphasizes a noun or another pronoun. ex. myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself, ourselves, ourselves and themselves.) ex. Anthony made the biscuits himself. |
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| (who, whom, whose, which, that) introduces a subordinate clause. |
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| (Who, whom, whose, which, what) introduces a question |
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| (this, that, these, those) points out a person, place, thing or idea. ex. Those are beautiful flowers. |
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| such as all, each, either, everyone, several, nobody, or someone refres to a person, place or thing that is not specifically named. ex. Everyone is responsible for the environment. |
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| A verb is a word used to express an action or state of being. |
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| expresses activity, whether physical or mental. |
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| expresses an action directed toward a person or a thing. |
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| Words that recieve the action of transitive verbs. What? Whom? |
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| expresses action or tells someting about the subject without reference to an object. ex. They left for religious reasons. |
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| a group of words that does not have a subject and its predicate |
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| a phrase beginning with a preposition, used as a modifier |
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| an interrupting definition NOTE: Because the appositive phrase is an interruption, there should be a comma before and after the appositive or appositive phrase. Even a one word appositive gets set off by commas. They act like adjectives: Roberto, the new sailor, came on board early. Ex. : The canal, an old lake system, was still used by ships. An appositive is a noun or noun phrase that renames another noun right beside it. The appositive can be a short or long combination of words. |
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| Gerunds, participles, and infinitives |
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| an –ing ending verb form used as a noun |
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| a verb form of various endings used as an adjective |
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| the to- form of the verb, used as a noun or modifier |
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| a verb form used as a noun, adjective, or adverb (Verbal phrases are based on verbs that have been adapted to become other parts of speech) All verbals can appear by themselves in a sentence; they only become verbal phrases when they are modified by another word or when they have their own object. |
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| an –ing ending verb form used as a noun Example: Thinking is fun |
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| a verb form of various endings used as an adjective Example: Shaking fearfully, the frightened creature looked at the door. Example: Hidden in the bushes, the frighten creature looked at the door. Completely broken, the mast fell over into the sea. Sailing well, the rusty ship headed for the island. Badly cracked, the red paint peeled off the hull. |
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| the to- form of the verb, used as a noun or modifier. NOTE: We think of an infinitive as one word. Example: To think is fun. EXAMPLE: To read is a pleasure. Noun The philosopher to read is Plato. Adjective He lives to fish. Adverb The man to see is Howard. Adjective He lived to sail. Adverb |
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| Sweeping the sidewalk was the baker’s morning habit. Sweeping the sidewalk is a gerund phrase |
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| group of words that has a subject and its predicate |
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| independent: I and dependent: D |
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| a clause that is a complete thought |
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| a clause that is not a complete thought, but needs to be connected to an independent clause |
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| The four clause structures: S, C, C-C |
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| Simple, compound, complex, compound-complex |
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Simple Sentence:
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| a sentence with one independent clause (Structure: I) |
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Compound Sentence:
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| a sentence with two or more independent clauses (Structure: I +I or I + I + I etc.) etc.) |
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Complex Sentence:
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| : a sentence with an independent clause attached to a dependent clause (Structure: I + D or D + I or D + I + I ) |
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Compound Complex Sentence:
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| a sentence with a compound structure and a complex structure (Structure: I + I + D or D + I + I ) |
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| Summary of Clause Punctuation: |
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| Comma before coordinating conjunction in compound sentence |
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| Semicolon between independent clauses if no coordinating conjunction |
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| No comma after independent clause in complex sentence |
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| Comma after dependent clause in complex sentence |
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| a comma splice is the error of joining two independent clauses with a comma. ( I,I) Example: The archaeologist went to Cairo, we went home. WRONG To correct the error, either insert a coordinating conjunction after the comma, or change the comma to a semicolon. |
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An idea, feeling, quality or characteristic
Ex. love, perfection, peace, jealousy |
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pronouns used for subjects of verbs and subject complements |
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