english mid-term
Terms
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- nominative case
- a pronoun used in the subject or predicate noun of a sentence
- verb
- action; state of being
- complex sentence
- one independent clause plus one subordinate clause
- possessive case
- a pronoun showing ownership
- pronoun case
- nominative, objective, possessive
- correlative conjunction
- two word combination to join words, phrases
- independent clause
- a simple sentence
- adverb
- modifies a verb, adjective or adverb
- preposition
- shows the relationship of one thing to another
- pronoun
- word that takes the place of a noun
- simple sentence
- one independent clause
- coordinating conjuction
- fanboys- joins words, phrases, clauses
- subject verb agreement
- subject stays the same; verb must be singular or plural to match the subject
- appositive
- a noun or noun phrase that renames the noun it follows: Mrs. R, my teacher, ...
- using a comma in a complex sentence
- only if subordinate clause if first
- adjective
- modifies a noun or pronoun
- objective case
- a pronoun used as a direct object, indirect object, object of the preposition
- comma rules
- use a comma: list, interrupter, appositive, compound sentence, introductory word or phrase, complex sentence, with conjunctive adverb, parenthetical expression
- subordinate clause
- a group of words that cannot stand alone but contain a subordinating conjuction, a subject and a verb
- noun
- person, place, thing, idea
- forms of be
- is, are, was, were, am, be, being, been
- subordinating conjunction
- awhitebus- joins clauses
- capitalize
- proper nouns, proper adjectives
- antecedent
- the word that the pronoun is referring to/taking the place of
- conjunction
- joins words, phrases, clauses
- pronoun agreement
- pronoun must match the antecedent by being singular or pluarl
- compound sentence
- two independent clauses joined together in one of three ways
- three ways to form a compound sentence
- comma coordinating conjunction; semicolon; semicolon conjunctive adverb comma
- interjection
- shows strong feeling