Grammar Test 1 Flashcards
A word for which a pronoun stands
Antecedent
Is a substantive that follows another substantive to explain or identify it.
Appositive
Is a group of words that has a subject and a verb
Clause
Is used in explaining the steps in a process and in writing stories and incidents
Chronological order
Easy to understand
Coherence
Contains 2 or more independent clauses and no dependent clause
Compound sentence
Is a word (or word group) that joins words, phrases, or clauses.
Conjunction
Makes a statement. Ends with a period
Declarative sentence
Is a substantive that receives the action of the verb or shows the result of the action
Direct object
Gives a command or makes a request. Ends with a period an exclamation mark.
Imperative sentence
Is a substantive that tells to whom of for whom, or to what or for what the action of the verb is done.
Indirect object
An exclamatory word that is not grammatically related to other words in a sentence
Interjection
Asks a question. Ends with a question mark.
Interrogative sentence
Does not require a receiver of its action in order to express a complete thought
Intransitive verb
Is a noun or adjective that is sometimes needed for the direct object to complete the sense of the verb.
Objective complement
Is a group of related words that don’t have a subject or verb
Phrase
Is an adjective that follows a linking verb and modifies the subject
Predicate adjective
Is a substantive that follows a linking verb and renames or explains the subject
Predicate nominative
Is a word that takes the place of a noun
Pronoun
2 or more sentences written incorrectly as 1 sentence
Run-on sentence
Is a separated sentence past that does not express a complete thought
Sentence fragment
May be used to refer to any word, phrase, or clause that functions as a noun or noun equivalent
Substantive
Used at the end of a paragraph, especially if the paragraph is long
Summarizing sentence
That states the main idea of the paragraph
Topic sentence
Requires a receiver of its own action in order to express a complete thought
Transitive verb
What are the 5 steps of the writing process?
Prewriting Plan Revision Editing Punblish
What are the seven types of pronouns?
Demonstrative Indefinite Intensive Interrogative Reciprocal Reflexive Relative
