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What is an Adjective?

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A word that describes a noun

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Comparative form of adjectives are made by adding what?

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-er

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Adjective Clause

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A type of clause that works to describe a noun in a sentence

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Conjunction

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A word used to connect clauses or sentences. “FANBOYS” (For And Nor But Or Yet So)

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Interjection

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Word or phrase used to convey suprise or other strong emotions. (Yikes, wow, what, hey, etc.)

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Noun

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A person, Place or Thing

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Proper Noun

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A word that acts in place of a specific noun, must always be capitalized.

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Direct Object

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A noun phrase that is used to denote a person or thing that is receiving the action the verb.

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Indirect Object

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A noun phrase reffering to someone or something that is affected by the action of the verb, but is not the primary object.

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Subject

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A person or thing that is being discussed, described, or dealt with.

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Pronoun

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A word that replaces a noun

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Verb

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An action word

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13
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Simple Predicate

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The verb that is being performed in a sentence

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Past Predicate

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The verb that has been acted upon.

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Irregular Verbs/Past Tense

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A past tense verb usually ends in -ed, but irregular verbs do not.

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Infinitive Phrases

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Phrases that include modifiers and/or compliments usually including “to” or “too” in front of it.

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Conjugate

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Changing a verb so it makes sense in a sentence.

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18
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Tense Forms

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Past, Present, Future

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19
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Capitalization

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A start of a sentense, a proper noun, or emphasis on an important thing.

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Ellipsis

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The triple dots at the end of a statement to entail trailing off or a missing part.

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21
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Was/Were

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“where” is used when there are two subjects, and “was” is used when there is only one.

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Analogies

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A comparison of two things that share a resemblance.

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Denouement

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Final part of a play in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are explained or resolved.

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24
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Historical Divisions of English

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Old English, Middle English, New English

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25
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Antonym

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Opposite of another word

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Alliteration

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A repitition of a sound at the beginning of the words.

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Hyperbole

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An exaggeration.

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Onomatopoeia

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A word that represents a sound (Boom, smash, click, creak, etc.)

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29
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Personification

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Giving human or animal qualities to an inanimate object.

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Palindrome

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A word that is spelled backward the same way it is spelled forward. (racecar, taco cat, level, etc.)

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Metaphor

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A comparison between two things without using like or as.

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32
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Epic

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A long poem used to tell the tale of heroic or legendary figures throughout history.

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33
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Internal Rhyme

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A word that is rhymed at the end of one line, or in the middle of another.

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34
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Limerick

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A comedic rhyming scheme that is aabba (Syllables are 8-8-5-5-8)

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Samuel Langhorn Clemens

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Psuedonym=Mark Twain, books: “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”, and “Huckleberry Finn”

36
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Michael Crichton (criton pronounciation)

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Jurassic Park, The Great Train Robbery

37
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Luis Lowry

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The Giver Quartet, Rabble Starky, Number the Stars

38
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Maurice Sendak

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Where the Wild Things Are, In the Night Kitchen

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Gunpowder

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A flammable powder which was placed in guns and cannons as a propellant.

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Henry IV, V, VI, VIII

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William Shakespeare. Tells the stories of those kings of England

41
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King Leir

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William Shakespeare. Tells the story of the mythological King Leir of Britian

42
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Manolin and Santiago

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From The Old Man and the Sea

43
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As You Like It, Hamlet, Julius Ceasar, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet

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Plays by William Shakespeare

44
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Casey at the Bat

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Ernest Thayer “Mighty Casey had struck out.”

45
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

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Robert Luis Stevenson

46
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The Diary of Anne Frank

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Anne Frank

47
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The Leather Stocking Tales

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James Fenimore Cooper

48
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The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

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Chronicals of Narnia- C.S. Lewis

49
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Aphrodite

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Greek Goddess of Love and Beauty. Roman=Venus

50
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Athena

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Greek Goddess of War and Wisdom, Parthenon is dedicated to her. Roman=Minerva

51
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Midas

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Roman king, blessed/cursed: Everything he touched turned to gold. Cursed/Blessed by Baccus

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Poseiden

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Greek God of the Sea, and Earthquakes. He also created horses. Roman=Neptune

53
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Compound words

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Ice Cream, Sponge Bath, Basketball, Blow up, etc.

54
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Irregular plurals

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Plurals that don’t end in -es. Geese, moose(Moosen), Oxen, Fish, sheep, etc.

55
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Nouns ending in -s

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Uncountable nouns: Aerodynamics, asthetics, aerobics.

56
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Nouns ending in -ss

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Abruptness, Abominables, bass, boss, etc.

57
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Nouns ending in -sh

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Sagebrush, sailfish, starfish, ash, anguish, ambush

58
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Nouns ending in -x

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Chatterbox, Box, Oxen, ox, fox,

59
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Is Chrono Greek or Latin- and what does it mean?

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Greek, meaning time (The greek titan of time is Kronos, so this makes sense.)

60
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Is Anti Greek or Latin- what does it mean

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Greek- against, or opposite.

61
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Difference between They’re and Their

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They’re= contraction Their=possesive

62
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Silent consonents

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e, gh, k, p, etc.

63
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Present Particible

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Ending in -ing

64
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Homonyms

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Two words that have the same pronounciation/spelling, but mean different things.

65
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Abriviations

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Smaller form of a word

66
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Abriviation for Attorney

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Atty

67
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Nouns to Adjectives

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Add suffix to root word

68
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Prefix to Suffix

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Put prefix at the end

69
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Biblio

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book

70
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Bio

A

Life

71
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Geo

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Land or earth

72
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Helio

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Sun

73
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In

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Within, on, not

74
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Phon

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sound, voice

75
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Pro

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Forward, positive

76
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Thermo

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heat

77
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Verb

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An action word

78
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Irregular Verbs

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Verbs that do not follow the rules for changing their tense.

79
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Irregular Past Tense

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Not formed by adding -ed, -en.

80
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Past Participle

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Past form

81
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Ambergris

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solid, waxy, flammable substance of a gray or blackish color produced in the digestive system of sperm whales.

82
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Eponym

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The person whom something is thought to be named after.

83
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Triskaidekaphobia

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Fear of 13

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