English 914
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What is a coordinating conjunction?
List the 7 F A N B O Y S -
They join equal elements, such as 2 independent clauses.
for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so - Define a dependent clause
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A clause that must be joined to an independent clause to make a complete sentence.
Also called subordinate - Describe an independent clause.
- A clause that can by itself be a sentence.
- Define a phrase.
- A group of 2 or more related words that functions as a single part of speech. A phrase lacks a subject and/or predicate, so it cannot stand alone as a complete sentence or form a clause.
- Define a clause.
- A group of words that ALWAYS has a subject and a predicate.
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What is a helping verb.
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A helping verb shows time, condition or circumstance of a verb.
may, must, can, will - What is a verb?
- A verb shows action or linds the subjects to another word.
- What are the forms of become?
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seem
look
appear
smell
taste
feel
sound
grow
remain - Name the forms of be.
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am
is
are
was
were
be
being
been - Name an example of future verb tense.
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I will walk
We will walk
They will walk - Name an example of verb tense past.
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we walked
you walked
they walked - Give an example of verb tense present.
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I walk
we walk
they walk - Name the categories of nouns
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proper
common
concrete/tangible
abstract/intangible
collective (group) - What is a pronoun?
- A pronoun takes the place of a noun. It must have an anticedent or it becomes a faulty pronoun reference.
- What is a gerund.
- a verb that ends in "ing"
- Name the types of pronouns.
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personal - I, me, he
reflexive/intensive - refers to self
indefinite - some, all, many
intensive - adds intensity
relative - who, which, that
demonstrative - to point - this one, that one
interrogative - who, which, what - What is an infinitive verbal?
- Begins with "to" and does not express the time of the action.
- What is an imperative?
- When the subject is understood to be you.
- Name the articles, or noun markers.
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a
an
the