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Mid term Flashcards

1
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A sentence that asks something and ends with ?

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Interrogative sentence

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2
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A sentence that shows strong feeling and ends with an!

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Exclamatory

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3
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A sentence that commands someone to do something and ends with a period

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Imperative

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4
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The part of the sentence that names who or what the sentence is about

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Subject

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5
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The part of the sentence tells what the subject does or has

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Predicate

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6
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A sentence that does not express a complete thought.It may be missing a subject,predicate or both

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Sentence fragment

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7
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The subject that includes all the words in the subject of a sentence

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Complete Subject

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The predicate that includes all of the words in the predicate of a sentence

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Complete Predicate

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9
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The subject that is the main word or group of words in the complete subject

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Simple Subject

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The predicate that is the main word or group of words in the complete predicate

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Simple predicate

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The subject that has two or more subjects that have the same predicate. The subjects are joined by and,or,but

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Compound subject

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12
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The predicate that has two or more verbs that have the same subject. these verbal are joined by and,or,but

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Compound Predicate

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13
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A sentence that contains two or more simple sentences

Ex)Nat boarded the ship, and the crowd waved

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Compound sentence

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14
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A sentence that has one main clause and one or more subordinate clauses
Ex)the captain spoke to Nat, who had boarded the ship

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Complex sentence

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15
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A sentence that has two or more sentences incorrectly written as one sentence

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Run-on sentence

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16
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A noun that names any,person,place, thing or idea

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Common noun

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17
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A noun that names a specific person,place,thing, or idea

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Proper noun

18
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A word that names a person, place,thing or idea

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Noun

19
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A noun that names one person place or thing

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Singular Noun

20
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A noun that names more then one person,place or thing

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Plural Noun

21
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A noun that names a group of people or things

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Collective Noun

22
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A noun that names who or what has something

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Possessive Noun

23
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A sentence that makes a statement or tells something. It ends with a period

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Declarative sentence

24
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A verb that names an action

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Action Verb

25
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The _________ receives the action of the verb. It answers yew question whom or what after the action verb

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Direct object

26
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A verb that has a direct object

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Transitive verb

27
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The verb that does not have a direct object

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Intransitive verb

28
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A ________ answers the question to whom?or for whom?the action was done

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Indirect object

29
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The verb that connects the subject of the sentence with a noun or an adjective in the predicate

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Linking verb

30
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A noun that follows a linking verb and tells what the subject is

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Predicate Noun

31
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An adjective that follows a linking verb and tells what the subject is like

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Predicate Adjective

32
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This tense of a verb names an action that happens regularly

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Present tense

33
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The tense of a verb that names an action that already happened

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Past tense

34
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The tense of a verb names an action that will take place in the future

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Future tense

35
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A verb that helps the main verb tell about an action or statement

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Helping Verb

36
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A ______ consists of one or more helping verbs followed by a main verb

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Verb Phrase

37
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The_______ of a verb tells about an action that is continuing right now

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Present progressive form

38
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The________ of a verb names an action that continued for some time in the past

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Past progressive form

39
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The _______ of a verb tells about something that happened at an indefinite time in the past

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Present perfect tense

40
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The _______ of a verb names an action that happened before another action or event in the past

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Past perfect tense

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