English Flashcards

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A _____ is a word or word group that is capitalized and punctuated as a sentence but that does not contain both a subject and verb or does not express a complete thought.

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SENTENCE FRAGMENT

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A ____ is a word or word group that contains a subject and a verb and that expresses a complete thought.

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SENTENCE

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The ___ tells whom or____what the sentence is about, and the ____ says something about the subject.

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SUBJECT, PREDICATE

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The main word or word group that tells whom or what the sentence is about is called the ____.

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SIMPLE SUBJECT

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The _____ consists of the simple subject and any words, phrases, or clauses that modify the simple subject.

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COMPLETE SUBJECT

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The _____ consists of a verb and all the words that describe the verb and complete its meaning.

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COMPLETE PREDICATE

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A ____ includes a preposition, the object of the preposition, and any modifiers of that object.

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PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE

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A _____ consists of 2 or more subjects that are joined by a conjunction and that have the same verb.

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COMPOUND SUBJECT

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A _____ consists of 2 or more verbs that are joined by a conjunction and that have the same subject.

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COMPOUND VERB

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A ______ is a word or word group that completes the meaning of the verb.

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COMPLEMENT

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A ______ is a word or word group in the predicate that describes or identifies the subject.

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SUBJECT COMPLEMENT

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A ______ is a word or word group that is in the predicate and that identifies the subject or refers to it.

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PREDICATE NOMINATIVE

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A ______ is an adjective that is in the predicate and that modifies the subject.

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PREDICATE ADJECTIVE

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A _____ is a noun, pronoun, or word group that tells who or what receives the action of a verb or shows the result of the action,

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DIRECT OBJECT

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An _______ is a noun, pronoun, or word group that often appears in sentences containing direct objects. An indirect object tells to whom or to what (or for whom or for what) the action of a transitive verb is done.

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INDIRECT OBJECT

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A ______ sentence makes a statement and ends with a period.

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DECLARATIVE

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An _____ sentence gives a command or makes a request.

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IMPERATIVE

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An ______ sentence asks a question and ends with a question mark.

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INTERROGATIVE

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An _______ sentence shows excitement or expresses strong feeling and ends with an exclamation point.

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EXCLAMATORY