Verbal and Written Communications

Question 1

Verbal Communication

Answer 1

expressing your thoughts out loud; speaking

Question 2

Nonverbal communication

Answer 2

any form of communication that does not involve speech, including gestures, the way one sits, eye contact (or lack of), and facial expressions; body language

Question 3

Proxemics

Answer 3

the study of humans’ use of space; includes physical territory and personal territory

Question 4

Grammar

Answer 4

the study of how words and their compounds combine to form sentences

Question 5

Vowels

Answer 5

five letters in the english language; a,e,i,o, and u- sometimes y is substituted for i

Question 6

Consonants

Answer 6

all letters of the english alphabet except a,e,i,o, and u

Question 7

Parts of Speech

Answer 7

collective term for eight classifications of words the denote each word’s function; in English these include noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, conjunction, preposition, and interjection

Question 8

Noun

Answer 8

a word representing a person, place, or thing

Question 9

Pronoun

Answer 9

a substitute word for a noun

Question 10

Verb

Answer 10

any word describing an action or a state of being

Question 11

Adjective

Answer 11

a word that modifies or describes a noun or pronoun

Question 12

Adverb

Answer 12

any word that tells how, when, where, and how much

Question 13

Conjunction

Answer 13

a word that joins other words, phrases, clauses, or sentences

Question 14

Preposition

Answer 14

a word that connects or relates its object to the rest of the sentence

Question 15

Interjection

Answer 15

a word, phrase, or clause that expresses emotion

Question 16

Simple Sentence

Answer 16

sentence that contains a subject and a verb, and which expresses a complete thought; independent clause

Question 17

Compound Sentence

Answer 17

sentence containing two independent clauses joined by a conjunction

Question 18

Complex Sentence

Answer 18

sentence with an independent clause joined by one or more dependent clauses

Question 19

Paragraph

Answer 19

part of a written composition, which consists of a collection of sentences related to one topic

Question 20

Punctuation

Answer 20

the practice or system of using certain conventional marks or characters such as commas, question marks, and periods in writing

Question 21

Contraction

Answer 21

a shortened form of a word or term; one or more letters are omitted and replaced with an apostrophe to create one word

Question 22

Capitalization

Answer 22

the use of an uppercase letter for the first letter of a word, and lowercase for the remaining letters; used for proper nouns