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English Composition

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Possible double meaning that may confuse a listener or reader.
Ambiguity
Used in some dictionaries to label words appropriate only in informal speech.
Colloquial
Customary way of doing things; what a reader or listener expects or is accustomed to.
Convention
Sparing use of words, avoiding unnecessary wordiness or duplication.
Economy
Kind of English appropriate in serious discussion and writing.
Formal
Result of staying within one pattern and avoiding confusing shifts in tense or grammatical perspective.
Consistency
Everday language of those with little formal education; inappropriate in school, business, or writing.
Non-Standard
Extremely informal language; often used in a disrespectful manner.
Slang
Unintentional repetition, needless duplication.
Redundancy
Emotional associations we have with a word.
Connotation
Word choice.
Diction
Objective definition of a word.
Denotation
Beside means ___ Besides means ___
Next to/In addition to
Language of our institutions - of school, church, business, and government.
Standard
Dictionary of synonyms.
Thesaurus
Affect means to ___ Effect means to ___
Influence/Bring about results
Accept means to ___ Except means to ___
Receive/Leave out
Words that are pronounced the same but are spelled differently.
Homonyms
Kind of standard English we use in casual conversations and personal letters.
Informal
Study of the forms of words and their arrangement in a language.
Grammar
Capital - Capitol -
City or Money/Building
Complement means to - Compliment means to -
Complete/Praise
Contemptible - Contemptuous -
Deserving of Scorn/Feeling Scorn
It's means - Its means -
It is/Belonging to it
Principle - Principal -
Rule/Head of School or Main
Than - Then -
Comparisons/At that Time
Put out, put up, and put down are all -
Idioms
True Blue means loyal, and Fell into the arms of Morpheus means went to sleep... What are these?
Cliches
Results when two or more meanings are possible.
Ambiguity
The noun is called the ___ of the pronoun.
Antecedent
Always place a ___ as close as possible to the word it describes.
Modifier
A complete sentence must have 3 things:
A subject, a verb, and a complete thought.
Two complete thoughts may be joined to form a ___.
Compound Sentence
Two or more thoughts of unequal importance may be joined to form a ___.
Complex Sentence
Perfect tenses are formed with an auxiliary verb and the ___ of the main verb.
Past Participle
Quoting of a person's exact words.
Direct Discourse
Paraphrasing of a person's exact words.
Indirect Discourse

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