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English 2 Grammar week 1 Flashcards

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noun

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Person, place, thing or idea.

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Common noun

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Names a general noun; begins with lower case letter

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Personal pronouns

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Personal(1st person pronouns having to do with me; 2nd person pronouns having to do with you; 3rd person: pronouns having to do with everyone else)

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Possessive personal pronouns

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Singular:my, your, his, her, its, mine, yours. Plural: our, your, their, ours, yours, theirs

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Adverb

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Modifies adjectives (really cute). Verbs (run quickly) and other adverbs (very easily)

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Articles

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Words before nouns

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Prepositions

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Shows a relationship between a noun or pronoun and some other word in the sentence. (Across, after, against, around, at, below, between, by, during, except, for, from, in, of, off, on, over, since, through, to, under, until, with, according to, because of, instead of. Etc.

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Coordinating

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FANBOYS (for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so)

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Action verb

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Shows action she wrote a note

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Present-verb tense

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Happening now( jump, talk, eat)

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Verbal

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Word formed from a verb but acting as a noun, adjective, or adverb

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Participle

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Verb acting like adjective (ends in-ing or -ed or any other past tense. I have running shoes.

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Simple subject

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The who or what of the verb

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Complete subject

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Simple subject plus its modifiers

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Simple predicate/verb

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All linking verbs are intransitive. All passive voice verbs are transitive

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Transitive verb

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Takes a direct object (We love English. English is the direct object

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Intransitive verb

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Does not take the direct object(Please sit down. Down is the adverb, not direct object.

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Compliment

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Completes the meaning of the subject and verb

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Direct object

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A noun or pronoun and is never in a prepositional phrase

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Prepositional phrase

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Group of words beginning with preposition and ending with noun or pronoun.

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Object of the preposition

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Follows preposition and tells what or whom

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Clause

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Each clause must have a verb and subject

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Independent clause

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At least one independent clause and is the main clause

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Compound sentence

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Two or more independent clauses

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Imperitative sentence

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Gives a command and ends in a period.

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Capitalization

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Capitalize proper nouns, always capitalize I, first word of a sentence, and first word of a quotation

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Conjunction

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Joins words, phrases, and clauses

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Possessive noun

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Shows ownership

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Past tense verb

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Happened previously usually ends in-ed

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Semicolon

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Joins two independent clauses without coordinating junction

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Apostrophe

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To make words possessive and to make contractions

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Declaritative sentence

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Ends with a period but not a command.

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Nominative personal pronoun

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I, you, he she they

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Participle phrase

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Participle plus its modifiers and objects

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Object of the participle

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follows participle and tells what

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Simple sentence

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One independent clause

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Proper noun

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Names a specific noun; begins with a capital letter

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Relative pronouns

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Starts adjective dependent clause

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Demonstrative pronouns

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Demonstrates which one

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Linking verb

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Links two words together

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Interjection

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Expresses emotion but has no real connection with the rest of the sentence

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Predicate nominative

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Is a noun or pronoun that follows a linking verb and renames a subject.

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Dependent clause

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A clause that cant stand alone

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Adjective dependent clause

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Usually starts with a relative pronoun

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Complex sentence

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One independent clause and one or more dependent clause.

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Exclamatory sentence

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A sentence that expresses strong feelings and ends in exclamation point

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Quotation marks

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Quotes titles, dialogue

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Adjective

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Modifies a noun

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Present tense verb

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Happening now

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Pronouns

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Objective personal pronoun

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Helping verb

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Interrogative Sentence

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Subordinating

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55
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Present progressive

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56
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Indirect object

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