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Grammar Flashcards

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Proper nouns, define, give an example

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Identify specific people

George - always capitalize

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Common nouns, give an example

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Single - cat, boy

Plural - cats, boys

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Possessive nouns

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Nouns that show ownership
Single- cat’s toy (one toy belonging to the cat)
Plural - cats’ toy (one toy belonging to more than one cat)

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Collective nouns

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Used to name a group, ex: class
Single - the class is taking a trip
Plural - the classes are taking a trip
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Pronouns

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Stand in The place of nouns

He, she, we, it, they

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Verbs

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Show action, need to have a verb to be considered a sentence

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Adjectives

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Used to describe or modify a noun or pronoun

Usually comes before the noun/pronoun

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Adverbs

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Modify verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs

Many adverbs end with -ly

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Prepositions

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Link nouns, pronouns, and phrases to other words in a sentence by describing some kind of relationship (location, time, logic)
Ex: I left my cd case IN the trunk OF the car

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Subject

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Shows what’s performing the action in the sentence

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Predicate

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Shows the action the subject is performing

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Direct object

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Shows who or what receives the action in the sentence

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Indirect object

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Shows to whom or for what the action is preformed

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Clause

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A group of words that has a subject and a verb

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Phrase

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A group of words that doesn’t have a subject and a verb, but acts as a unit

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Comma

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Separates sentence structure to make them more manageable to read, separates two independent clauses

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Semi-colon

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Connects two related independent clauses

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Colon

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Joining two independent clauses and you want to emphasize the second of the two

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First person

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The speaker of the sentence is the subject

I see the light

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Second person

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The speaker is addressing someone specific (you)

You see the light

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Third person

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The speaker is detached from the subject (he/she/it)

He sees the light

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Coordinating conjunction

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Links grammatically similar parts of a sentence like 2 independent clauses
And, but, or, not, for, yet, so

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Fragment

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A dependent clause that stands alone

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Accept/except

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Accept - take something

Except - exclude something

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Affect/effect

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Affect - stir up emotion, verb

Effect - refers to a result, noun

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Allude/elude

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Allude - reference something

Elude - try to avoid or get away

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Alright/ all right

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Alright - informal version of all right

All right - formal use of language

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Complement/compliment

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Complement- to go with something

Compliment - say something nice to someone

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Elicit/illicit

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Elicit - to cause or generate

Illicit - describes something illegal

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Farther/further

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Farther - discussing distance

Further - to progress

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Imply/infer

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Imply - communicate information without stating it outright

Infer - take information and draw a conclusion based on it

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Insure/ensure

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Insure - place insurance on something

Ensure- make certain

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Less/fewer

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Less - cant be measured in quantity

Fewer - measured in quantity

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Than/then

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Than - some kind of comparison

Then - indicates time

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There/their/they’re

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There - refers to a place
Their - possessive pronoun
They’re - contraction of they are

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Wary/weary

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Wary - to be alert

Weary - tired

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Who/that

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Who - indicates a person or animal

That - thing or group

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Your/you’re

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Your - possessive pronoun

You’re - contraction that combines you and are

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