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Flashcards by Renee Hamilton, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Renee Hamilton
about 8 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Noun | Definition: Person, place, or thing. Example: She, he, it, hospital, or ball |
| Pronoun | Definition: Replace nouns and make sentences sound less repetitive. Example: Singular; I, me, mine, you, your, he, or him. Plural: We, us, our, they. |
| Verb | Definition: Action words Example: Running, playing, writing, walking, or crying. |
| Adjectives | Definition: Words that describe a noun. Example: Little boy, big girl, smart boy, or nice person. |
| Adverb | Definition: Describe verbs, adjectives, and even other adverbs. Example: The doctor had recently hired a new employee. Recently is the adverb as it tells us more about how the action hire took place. |
| Prepositions | Definition: Describes the location of the noun or pronoun. Example: The nurse parked her car in a parking garage. In describes the position of the car in relation to the garage. |
| Conjunctions | Definition: Connect words, phrases, and clauses. Example: FANBOYS; for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so. |
| FANBOYS | Definition: Used to join independent clauses that can stand alone in a sentence. Example: The nurse prepared the patient for surgery, and the doctor performed the surgery. Conjunction and joins together two independent clauses. |
| Dependent Clauses | Definition: Cannot stand on its own. Example: She had to ride the subway because her car was broken. Conjuction because joins together the two clauses. |
| Interjections | Definition: Like wow and hey, express emotion. Example: Wow, hey, hi, or awesome |
| Comma | Definition: Joins two independent clauses with a coordinating conjunction. |
| Semicolon | Definition: Joining together two dependent clauses (never with a conjunction) |
| Colon | Definition: Introducing a list, explanation, or definition. |
| Apostrophe | Definition: Form contractions and show possession/ownership. Example: Contractions like it's = 'S plural & possessive = S' Singular = 'S Name ends in S = S' Women = women's; Boys = boys'; hers,yours, theirs, whose, ours = No apost. |
| Simple Sentence | Definition: Has one independent clause, subject, and verb. Example: Two word sentence like, I ran. |
| Compound Sentence | Definition: Has two or more independent clauses and no dependent clauses. Example: Uses commas & coordinating conjunctions (FANBOYS) like, My computer broke, so I took it to be repaired. |
| Complex Sentence | Definition: Has one independent clause and atleast one dependent clause. Example: If you lie down with dogs, you'll wake up with fleas. First clause is dependent and second clause is independent. |
| Compound-complex sentences | Definition: Has two or more independent clauses and at least one subordinate clause. Example: Even though David was a vegetarian, he went with his friends to the steak houses, but he focused on the conversation instead of the food. |
| Predicate | Definition: Verb of sentence. Example: Due to her stingy nature, the famous actress was not generous with her friends and family. Answer = Was & generous |
| Simple Predicate | Definition: Describes verb in sentence. Example: So many types of birthday cake put Cynthia at a loss. Answer = Put |
| Effect & Affect | Definitions: Effect = Executed, produced, or brought about. Affect = Made an impact on. |
| Indirect object | Definition: Is the recipient of the direct object. Example: The mountain climber tossed the Sherpa the rope. Answer = Sherpa |
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