communication skills 2 Flashcards
parts of speech
parts of speech are the categories of
words based on their function within a sentence.
sentence
A ‘sentence’ is a group of words that communicates
a complete meaning, thought or action
phrase
Raju goes to school.
A group of words, which does not make complete
sense, is known as a ‘phrase’
Using capitals
MINTS
MONTHS
I
NAME
TITLES
STARTING OF THE SENTENCE
common punctuation
period, comma,
question mark, exclamation mark, apostrophe, colon,
semi-colon, dash, hyphen, parenthesis, quotation mark,
bracket, brace, ellipsis and bullet point
Basic parts of speech
noun, pronoun, adjective, verb and adverb
simple sentence
A simple sentence is one that has only one subject and
one predicate or has only one finite verb.
complex sentence
A complex sentence is one, which consists of two or
more coordinate clauses, joined by a
coordinating conjunction
subject
A subject is a person or thing that does
an action.
verb
Verb describes the action.
object
Object is the person or thing that receives the
action.
direct object
A direct
object answers the question ‘what?’.
indirect object
An indirect object answers the questions, such as
“to whom” and “for whom”.
active voice
Sentences, where the subject does an action, are
known to be in active voice
passive voice
Sentences, in which the subject receives an action,
are known to be in passive voice
