Grammar Terms
Terms
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- conjunction
- connect words, phrases, clauses
- verb
- shows action or state of being
- clause
- has a subject and verb
- S-LV-adjective
- Adjective describes the subject
- S-V-IO-O
- The indirect object answers "to whom" or "for whom"
- appositive
- renames a noun
- noun
- names a person, place, or thing
- S-LV-N
- Noun renames the subject
- semicolon rules
- no connector, other connector, too many commas
- participle
- verb form used as an adjective
- phrase
- does not have a subject and verb
- adverb
- modifies verbs, adjective, other adverbs
- compound sentence structure
- two independent clauses
- simple sentence structure
- one independent clause
- independent Clause
- clause that can stand alone
- S-V-O
- subject does the action, verb transfers it to object, and object receives it
- dependent Clause
- clause that cannot stand alone
- preposition
- shows position
- adjective
- modifies noun or pronoun
- interjection
- shows emotion
- comples sentence structure
- one independent and one dependent clause
- comma rules
- set off an appositive, intro words, nonrestrictive clauses
- S-V sentence pattern
- subject does the action. action stays in the verb
- compound/Complex Sentence structure
- two independent and at least one dependent clause
- pronoun
- replaces a noun
- gerund
- verb form used as a noun