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for
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aut, auto
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self
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doleful
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sorrowful; mournful; melancholy:
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article
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most commonly used adjectives
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participle
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•=part adjective + part verb
•present end in "-ing" and past ends in "-ed"
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a, the, an
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commonly used articles
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allusion
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a casual reference to something without explicit identification
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I own THREE guitars
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Adjective, "HOW MANY"
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relative
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pronoun that introduces a subordinate clause
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clemency
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the quality of being clement; disposition to show forbearance, compassion, or forgiveness in judging or punishing; leniency; mercy.
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dependent clause
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an incomplete thought that cannot stand on its own
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hyperbole
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literary device - compares two things using exaggeration
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Wordiness
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A sentence with more words than necessary to get the point across
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Coordinating Ideas
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Join them with a coordinating conjunction(and, but, or, nor, so, yet).And links equal and similiar ideas, while but links equal and contrasting ideas.
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Complex Sentence
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One independent clause, 1+ one dependent clause
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Tawdry
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Adj Something showy, but cheap and of poor quality
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verb form that acts as an adjective, modifying a noun or pronoun
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participle
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imagery
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literary device - 5 senses = using sight, sound, taste, touch, and smell as ways to help describe
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preposition
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a word that shows the relationship of a noun or a pronoun to another word in a sentence
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Direct Object
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the receiver of action within a sentence.
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Personal pronouns
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Pronouns that link to the possessive noun. ex: her, his, their.
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modifier
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a word or sentence element that limits or qualifies the sense of another element in the same construction
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appositive
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a noun or noun phrase that renames the noun it follows: Mrs. R, my teacher, ...
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noun
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a word used to name a person, place, or thing
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Subordinate Clause
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a clause in a complex sentence that cannot stand alone as a complete sentence and that functions within the sentence as a noun or adjective or adverb
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pronoun
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a word that takes the place of a noun
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adjective phrase
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a group of words or modifiers that function as an adjective
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dramatic irony
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a situation in a play or novel in which the audience/reader knows something that the character does not
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Adjectives of Equal Rank
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comma between two adjectives that are equal and can be switched around and put an and in there and it sounds natural
Ex: Steve bought a hot, tasty bowl of chili.
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coordinating conjunction
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a word that joins two or more units that are grammatically alike
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object of the preposition
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the noun or pronoun which follows a preposition and is related by the preposition to another word
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How can we determing the category membership
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Morphology/Shape - Words will often take the same affix
Syntactic behaviour - will take up the same position in the sentence
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adjectival clause
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who
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adverbs describe.....
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verbs
adjectives
other adverbs
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venerate
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regard with great respect
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photophobia
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morbid aversion to light
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I love playing games
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Personal Pronoun
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eon
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an indefinitely long period of time
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fewer
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if the word modified is plural
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Adjective
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modifies verbs, adverbs, and other adjectives
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conjunction
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words distinguished in many languages by their function as connectors between words, phrases, clauses, or sentences; and, or, but, because
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me
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This is strictly between you and me/I
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adverb phrase
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prepositional phrase that modifies a verb, adjective, or an adverb.
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Indirect object
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Noun of pronoun
Answers the question to whom? Or for whom? To what? from the verb
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intransitive verb
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is not followed by direct object
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past
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designating a tense that refers to events or states in time gone by
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compound predicate
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two or more simple predicates, or verbs, with the same subject
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participle phrase
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consists of a participle and any modifiers or complements the participle has (e.g. I heard him WHISPERING TO HIS FRIEND.)
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transitive verb
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verbs that have an object; completes action by showing who or what ex: my couzin bought a new car
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verb phrase
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something that contains one main vern and one or more helping verbs
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infinitive phrase
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consists of an infinitive and any modifies or complements the infinitive has. The phrase can be used as a noun, adjective, or adverb.
ex. To hit a curve-ball is very hard.
A - to hit a curve-ball
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predicator
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the verbal element of a clause or sentence
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predicate
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what the subject is doing - always a verb
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linking verb
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links the subject of a sentence (often a noun or a pronoun) with a noun, a pronoun, or an adjective that identifies or describes the subject. Does not show action
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Frag., missing subject example
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Helped Mrs. Moll catch the gerbil.
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initial incident
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the first hint of conflict (where the story will go)
ex. When Pishi tells Sudha about the fathers
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compound noun
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a noun that consists of two or more words that together name a person, a place, a thing, or an idea (e.g. I play BASKETBALL with my SISTER-IN-LAW.)
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Gerund
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a noun formed from a verb (such as the '-ing' form of an English verb when used as a noun)
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personal pronoun
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any one of the pronouns used to refer to the speaker; I, we, you, he, she, it, they
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what is a passive verb?
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when the subject of the sentence receives the action, or expresses the result of the action
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(OP) Object of a preposition
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The object will be the very next noun or pronoun AFTER the preposition.
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