Chapter 7: Verbal and Written Communications | Crossword

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Across
  1. 2. the practice or system of using certain conventional marks or characters such as commas, question marks, and periods in writing
  2. 5. a word that connects or relates its object to the rest of the sentence
  3. 6. a word that joins other words, phrases, clauses, or sentences
  4. 7. the study of how words and their components combine to form sentences
  5. 9. the study of humans' use of space; includes physical territory and personal territory
  6. 10. part of a written composition, which consists of a collection of sentences related to one topic
  7. 11. five letters in the English language: a, e, i, o, and u (sometimes y is substituted for i)
  8. 12. a word, phrase, or clause that expresses emotion
  9. 13. all letters of the English alphabet except a, e, i, o, and u
  10. 14. a word that modifies or describes a noun or pronoun
Down
  1. 1. collective term for eight classifications of words that denote each word's function; in English these include noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, conjunction, preposition, and interjection
  2. 3. a word representing a person, place, or thing
  3. 4. a shortened form of a word or term; one or more letters are omitted and replaced with an apostrophe to create one word
  4. 8. sentence that contains a subject and a verb, and which expresses a complete thought; independent clause
  5. 15. the use of an uppercase letter for the first letter of a word, and lowercase for the remaining letters; used for proper nouns
  6. 16. any word describing an action or a state of being