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1
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It is a word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence, and forming the main part of the predicate of a sentence.

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Verb

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What are the kinds of verbs?

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Transitive verb, intransitive verb, linking verb, auxiliary verb

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Kind of verb that expresses an action that has a direct object or receiver of the action

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Transitive verb

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Kind of verb where the subject of the sentence performs an action but not to, for, or against anything or anybody

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Intransitive verb

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TRUE OR FALSE:

Linking verbs are used together with a main verb to show the verb’s tense or to form a question.

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False (linking verb do not show any action and simply link the subject with the rest of the sentence)

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What are the 2 types of Auxiliary verbs?

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Primary and modal auxiliaries

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What verb is used to indicate modality that allows speakers to express certainty, possibility, willingness, obligation, necessity, and/or ability?

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Modal verbs

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What are the functions that are expressed with the use of modal verbs?

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Permission, ability, obligation, prohibition, lack of necessity, advice, possibility, and probability

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What are the kinds of voices of verbs?

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Passive and active voice

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This voice describes a sentence where the subject performs the action stated by the verb.

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Active voice

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Voice of verbs that tells that the subject of the sentence is the receiver of the action.

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Passive voice

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What tells whether the subject of the sentence is the doer or receiver of the action?

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Voice (of verbs)

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It indicates how the action of the verb is expressed.

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Mood (of verbs)

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What are the kinds of moods of verbs?

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Indicative, subjunctive, imperative mood

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The mood that expresses a fact, a truth, or an opinion.

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Indicative mood

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A mood that is commonly used to express a wish, a desire, a demand, or a contrary-to-fact situation.

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Subjunctive mood

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This mood of a verb expresses a command or a request.

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Imperative mood

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What are the different verb tenses?

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Simple tenses, progressive tenses, perfect tense, perfect progressive tense

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A verb that is a combination of a verb and an adverb or a verb and a preposition.

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Phrasal verb

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A phrase or expression whose meaning cannot be understood from the ordinary meanings of the words in it.

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Idiom

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It is a word that functions as the name of some specific thing or set of things such as living creatures, objects, places, actions, qualities, states of existence, or idea.

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Noun

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What are the kinds of nouns?

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Proper, common, collective, concrete, abstract, compound, count, and mass nouns.

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A noun that always begins with a capital letter and is the name of a specific person, place, thing, or idea.

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Proper noun

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It is the generic name for a person, place, or thing in a class or group and is not capitalized unless it either begins in a sentence or appears in a title

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Common noun

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A noun that denotes a group of individuals

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Collective noun

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A kind of noun that can be identified through one of the five senses

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Concrete noun

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A noun that denotes an idea, quality, or state that is known by its effects but has no physical form or body.

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Abstract noun

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This kind of noun is made with two or more words used/joined together to name one person, thing, or place.

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Compound noun

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The noun that refers to the object that can be counted.

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Count noun

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The noun that denotes something that cannot be counted but can be quantified by measurement.

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Mass noun

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What are the genders of nouns?

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Feminine, masculine, neuter, common

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TRUE OR FALSE:

Common pertains to nouns that are either male or female

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True

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33
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It pertains to objects with no gender.

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Neuter

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What are the uses/cases of nouns?

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Nominative, Objective, Appositive, and Possessive cases

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What are the uses/cases of pronouns?

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Nominative, Objective, and Possessive cases

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36
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This use of noun is used to explain or identify another noun.

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Appositive

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37
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A use/case of noun/pronoun where it is used as the subject or subjective complement in a sentence.

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Nominative case

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38
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It is the one performing the action of the verb.

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Subject

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39
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A use/case of noun/pronoun where it is used as a direct object, indirect object, the object of a preposition, or objective complement in a sentence.

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Objective case

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40
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TRUE OR FALSE:

Direct object is when the noun is the person or thing to or for the action is performed.

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False (direct object is when the noun receives the action from the verb)

41
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TRUE OR FALSE:

Direct object answers the question what or who.

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True

42
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It is the noun that completes the meaning of the direct object or tells what the direct object is.

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Objective complement

43
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It is a case where a noun is used to show ownership or possession.

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Possessive noun

44
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What do you call a word, phrase, or affix that occurs together with a noun and serves to express the reference of that noun?

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Determiner or determinative

45
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Are words that define a noun as specific or unspecific

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Articles

46
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What are the two types of articles?

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Definite and indefinite articles

47
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TRUE OR FALSE:

The definite article is the word “the”

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True

48
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This limits the meaning of a noun to one particular thing.

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Definite article

49
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TRUE OR FALSE:

The indefinite article is the word “the”

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False (it’s the word a/an)

50
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This article only appears with singular nouns.

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Indefinite articles

51
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It is a word that replaces a noun in a sentence.

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Pronoun

52
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What are the kinds of pronouns?

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Personal, Intensive and Reflexive, Demonstrative, Relative, Interrogative, Indefinite, and Reciprocal pronouns

53
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These are compound personal pronouns that end in the suffix ‘self’/’selves’

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Intensive and reflexive pronouns

54
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These pronouns are _____ when the action indicated goes back to the subject.

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Reflexive

55
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TRUE OR FALSE:

These pronouns are intensive when they are used for emphasis or reinforcement.

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True

56
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What kind of pronoun directs attention or points a specific person, place, or thing?

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Demonstrative pronoun

57
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This kind of pronoun is used to connect a clause or phrase to a noun or pronoun.

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Relative pronoun

58
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TRUE OR FALSE:

Relative pronoun is a connecting word to another idea in the same sentence.

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True

59
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What kind of pronoun is used to ask questions?

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Interrogative pronoun

60
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What are the interrogative pronouns?

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What, which, who, whom, and whose

61
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What kind of pronoun does not refer to any person, amount, or thing in particular?

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Indefinite pronoun

62
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What kind of pronoun indicates mutual interchange of action?

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Reciprocal pronoun

63
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It refers to a word that modifies a noun or a pronoun.

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Adjective

64
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TRUE OR FALSE:

An adjective appears before the noun it modifies.

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True

65
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What are the types of adjectives?

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Descriptive, limiting, interrogative adjective

66
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What are the degrees of comparison?

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Positive, comparative, superlative

67
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What type of adjective is a word that gives quality, size, age, shape, color, origin, and material/kind to a noun or pronoun?

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Descriptive adjective

68
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TRUE OR FALSE:

Descriptive adjective often answers the question, “what kind of?”

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True

69
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TRUE OR FALSE:

Limiting adjective often answers the question, “what kind of?”

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False (it answers the question, “which?” or “how many?” or “how much?”)

70
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What type of adjective is a word that points out an object or indicates its number or quantity?

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Limiting adjective

71
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What type of adjective are question words?

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Interrogative adjective

72
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This degree of comparison is used when two things are being compared with each other.

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Comparative

73
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TRUE OR FALSE:

The positive degree of comparison is used when three or more things are being compared with each other.

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False (positive is used when the adjective is NOT being compared with anything else)

74
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What degree of comparison is used when three or more things are being compared with each other?

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Superlative

75
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What refers to a word that modifies a verb or an adjective?

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Adverb

76
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What are the kinds of adverbs?

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Adverb of Manner, Adverb of Place, Adverb of Time, Adverb of Frequency, Adverb of Degree, Adverb of Reason, Adverb of Negation

77
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TRUE OR FALSE:

The Adverb of Negation expresses negativity.

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True

78
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TRUE OR FALSE:

Today, tomorrow, now, next month, early, again - they are examples of the Adverb of Time.

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True

79
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What kind of adverb indicates how an action is done?

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Adverb of Manner

80
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What kind of adverb shows how many times an action is done?

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Adverb of Frequency

81
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What kind of adverb signifies the intensity of or how much an action is done?

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Adverb of Degree

82
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What is a word that expresses relationships between a noun/pronoun and another word in the sentence?

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Preposition

83
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What do you call a preposition that consists of two or more words?

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Compound preposition

84
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What is a word that is used to connect clauses or sentences?

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Conjunction

85
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What are the different kinds of conjunctions?

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Coordinating, Correlative, Subordinating Conjunction

86
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What kind of conjunction connects ideas of the same kind?

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Coordinating Conjunction

87
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TRUE OR FALSE:

Subordinating conjunctions connect two ideas that are not the same in rank.

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True

88
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What is used to express feelings or emotions?

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Interjection

89
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What kind of conjunction connects the same kinds of words or groups of words and comes in pairs?

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Correlative Conjunction

90
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It is defined as a group of words containing both a subject and a verb. It makes up sentences.

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Clause

91
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What are the kinds of sentences?

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Simple, compound, complex sentence

92
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TRUE OR FALSE:

A Simple Sentence consists of one main/independent clause.

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True

93
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What kind of sentence has at least two independent clauses that are connected by coordinating conjunctions?

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Compound Sentence

94
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What are the different problems in sentences?

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Sentence fragments, Run-on sentences, Loose sentences, Choppy sentences, Excessive subordinations, Parallel structure

95
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TRUE OR FALSE:

A sentence fragment is not a complete sentence.

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True

96
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What kind of problem with sentences is caused by excessive use of the connective “and” when other conjunctions would convey more precise meaning?

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Loose Sentences

97
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What are the two types of Run-on Sentences?

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Fused sentences and comma splice

98
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What kind of problem with sentences is it when two or more independent clauses are inappropriately joined?

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Run-on Sentences

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