Chapter 1 - Basic Grammar Flashcards

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Apostrophe

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Apostrophes are used either to show possession or to combine two words together in a contraction

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Pronoun

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A pronoun is a word that replaces a noun in a sentence

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Comma

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Commas are dividers

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Body

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The middle, and longest, part of your essay, in which you defend or support the thesis

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Thesis statement

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A sentence in which you state your main argument or point

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Comma splice

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Two complete sentences incorrectly joined by a comma

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Subject

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The subject is what or who the sentence is about

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Predicate

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The predicate is what the subject is doing

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Conclusion

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The last paragraph of your essay, in which you rest your thesis

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Paragraph

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A paragraph usually begins with an indentation on a new line.

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Sentence

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A sentence typically begins with a capital letter and ends with appropriate punctuation.

word or (more commonly) a group of words that expresses a complete idea. Conventionally, a sentence includes a subject and a verb.

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Adjective

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An adjective modifies a noun or pronoun

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Adverb

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An adverb modifies a verb, adjective or other adverb

Describes an action

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Complex sentence

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A sentence that contains at least one independent clause and one dependent clause

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Compound sentence

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A sentence that contains at least two independent clauses, often joined by a conjunction

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Conjunction

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The part of speech that serves to connect two words, phrases, clauses, or sentences. AND, BUT, OR, NOR etc

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Declarative statement

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A sentence that makes a statement

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Dependent clause

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A group of words that begins with a relative pronoun or a subordinating conjunction. A dependent clause has both a subject and a verb but (unlike an independent clause) cannot stand alone as a sentence. Also known as a subordinate clause.

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Direct object

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A noun or pronoun that receives the action of a transitive verb

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Exclamatory sentence

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A sentence that expresses strong feeling by making an exclamation

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Imperative sentence

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A sentence that gives advice or instructions or that expresses a request or command

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Independent clause

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A group of words made up of a subject and predicate. An independent clause (unlike a dependent clause) can stand alone as a sentence. Also known as a main clause

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Indirect object

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A noun or pronoun that indicates to whom or for whom the action of a verb in a sentence is performed

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Interrogative sentence

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A sentence that asks a question

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Noun

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A person, place, thing, quality, or action and can function as the subject or object of a verb, the object of a proposition, or an appositive

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Passive voice

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An action form in which the subject receives the verb’s action. Contrast with active voice.

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Prepositional phrase

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A group of words made up of a preposition, its object, and any of the object’s modifiers.

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Tense

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The time of a verb’s action or state of being, such as past, present, and future.

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Verb

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The part of speech that describes an action or occurrence or indicates a state of being.

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Interjection

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Expresses emotion

Example: ah, whoops, ouch

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Preposition

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Show a relationship between a noun (or pronoun) and other words in the sentence
Example: up, over, against, by, for

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Participle

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Ends in -ing or -ed

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Article

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Basically, there are two types of articles in English: the definite article (the) and the indefinite (a/an)

Precedes a noun

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Semicolon

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Connects two ideas together