MTEL C&L Practice
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- Adjective
- Adjectives are modifiers that describe or modify nouns
- Adverbs
- Adverbs answer the questions like How? When? How much? Where? Adverbs modify verbs, other adverbs, or adjectives.
- Clause
- A clause is a group of words that includes a subject and a verb. An independent clause expresses a complete thought. A dependent clause has a subject and a verb but does not contain a complete thought.
- Complex sentence
- A complex sentence contains an independent clause and a dependent clause.
- Compound Sentence
- A compound sentence expresses two complete thoughts using independent clauses connected by a conjunction.
- Compound-complex sentence
- A compound-complex sentence contains two subjects, two verbs, and one dependent clause.
- Conjunctions
- Conjunctions join words and ideas together. They included and, or, but, if, yet, not and so.
- Declaritive Sentence
- It makes a statement. "Today is a nice day."
- Exclamatory Sentence
- This sentence makes an exclamation. "That was a really scary movie!"
- Imperative Sentence
- It expresses a command. "Paul, go to your room."
- Interjections
- These are words that show excitement or confusion. Such as: Hey, who took the last cookie. Hey is an interjection.
- Interrogative Sentence
- This asks a question. "Do you like to dance?"
- Noun
- A person, place or thing
- Prepositions
- Prepositions are words that indicate location, such as: aboard, about, near, in, on, between, by, along. Don't end a sentence with a preposition!
- Pronoun
- A substitute for a noun and there are four types: Personal, Indefinite, Demonstrative, Possessive Personal: I, we, you, he, him, she, her, it, they , them, who, whom, whoever, whomever Indefinite: Everybody, anybody, either, neither, each, any Demon
- Simple sentence
- This combines a subject with a verb. The subject is the doer of an action and can be a common or proper noun or a pronoun. The verb is the action or state of being in the sentence.
- Verb
- Verbs show action or state of being