Grammar Vocabulary I

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  1. 3. Any structure (word, phrase, or clause) that fills the role of an adjective- that is, that functions as an adjective normally does, modifying a noun
  2. 6. The uninflected form of the verb, as it appears in the frame "To ~ is difficult." It appears in the infinitive in the present tense for all persons except third-person singular,, and in other verb phrases
  3. 10. The grammatical and semantic connections between sentences and paragraphs. These ties are furnished by pronouns that have antecedents in previous sentences, by adverbial connections, by known information, by repeated or related words, and by knowledge shared by the reader.
  4. 11. The quality of being orderly, logical, and consistent.
  5. 12. A participial phrase at the beginning or end of a sentence in which the subject of the sentence is not the subject of the participle. In other words, it is a verb without a subject
  6. 14. A sentence consisting of two or more independent clauses and at least one dependent clause
  7. 16. A feature of sentences in which the subject performs the action of the verb and the direct object is the goalor the recipient.
  8. 17. A sentence in the form of a statement (in contrast to a command, a question, or an exclamation).
  9. 19. A two-word conjunction
  10. 23. adverb A conjunction with an adverbial emphasis that connects two clauses
  11. 24. A form-class word that functions as a noun modifier.
  12. 26. A noun phrase or other nominal structure that names the goal or receiver of the action of the verb
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  1. 1. A meaningful unit that is added to the beginning (prefix) or end (suffix) of a word to change its meaning or its function or its part of speech.
  2. 2. A sentence consisting of one independent: or main, clause and at least one dependent clause
  3. 3. A noun phrase with one modifier, often a participial phrase, following the noun headword. It can explain a cause or condition, or it can add a detail or a point of focus .
  4. 4. A structure that adds information by renaming another structure.
  5. 5. A sentence consisting of two or more independent, or main, clauses
  6. 7. Any structure (word, phrase, or clause) that functions as a modifier of a verb-that is, that fills the role of an adverb.
  7. 8. A conjunction that connects two words, phrases, or clauses as equals
  8. 9. A structure-class word that marks or signals a noun, appearing as the first word in a noun phrase, before the noun and before any modifiers in the phrase. They include the articles a, an, and the and those words that can be used in their place: demonstrative pronouns, indefinite pronouns, numbers, possessive pronouns, and possessive nouns.
  9. 13. A form-class word that generally modifies a verb, as in I will be going soon. They can also modifv the sentence as a whole.
  10. 14. A feature of nouns and certain pronouns (personal and relative pronouns) that is determined by the role the noun or pronoun fills in the sentence.
  11. 15. A sequence of words that includes a subject and a predicate.
  12. 17. A clause that fills a role in a sentence (such as adverbial, adjectival, or nominal) and that cannot stand independently as a sentence
  13. 18. A structure that completes the predicate, such as a direct object, indirect object, subject complement, and object complement.
  14. 19. Two independent clauses joined by a comma
  15. 20. A structure-class word used with verbs. They include have, be, and do when they are used in phrases with other verbs
  16. 21. A structure-class word that connects two or more words, phrases, or clauses
  17. 22. The word or phrase, usually a noun phrase, that a pronoun stands for.
  18. 25. The determiners a and an (indefinite) and the (definite).