compound sentence - CORRECT ANSWER a sentence with more than one subject or
predicate.
simple sentence - CORRECT ANSWER a sentence consisting of only
... [Show More] one clause, with
a single subject and predicate.
complex sentence - CORRECT ANSWER a sentence containing a subordinate clause
or clauses
compound complex sentence - CORRECT ANSWER a sentence having two or more
coordinate independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses
ex. While Tom reads novels, Jack reads comics, but Sam
only reads magazines.
subordinate clause - CORRECT ANSWER a clause, typically introduced by a
conjunction, that forms part of and is dependent on a main clause
ex. "when it rang" in "she answered the phone when it rang"
apostrophe - CORRECT ANSWER punctuation mark that denotes omission of letters or
possessive case
colon - CORRECT ANSWER punctuation mark used in introduction of a quote or list,
ratio, and time
comma - CORRECT ANSWER - punctuation make used to separate parts of sentences
- help identify identify independent and dependent clauses
end marks - CORRECT ANSWER punctuation marks that end sentences: period,
question mark, and exclamation point
parentheses - CORRECT ANSWER punctuation marks that set off explanatory material
within text
direct quotations - CORRECT ANSWER - the exact words of someone else woven into
your writing
- placed inside quotation marks
ex. Dr. King said, "I have a dream."
indirect quotations - CORRECT ANSWER - a paraphrase of someone else's words: it
reports on what a person said without using the exact words of the speaker
ex. Dr. King said that he had a dream.
parts of speech - CORRECT ANSWER noun, pronoun, verb, adverb, preposition,
conjunction and interjection
adjective - CORRECT ANSWER word or phrase that describes or modifies a noun
adverb - CORRECT ANSWER word or phrase that describes or modifies an adjective,
verb or other adverb
- end in -ly
article - CORRECT ANSWER words (a and an) that refer to nouns
complement - CORRECT ANSWER sentence part that give more information about a
subject or object
dependent clause - CORRECT ANSWER group of words that includes a subject and
verb but CANNOT stand alone as a complete sentence
independent clause - CORRECT ANSWER group of words that includes a subject and
predicate and CAN stand alone as a complete sentence
indirect object - CORRECT ANSWER the person or thing to whom or which something
is done
interjection - CORRECT ANSWER words or phrases that represent short bursts of
emotion
ex. hello, hooray, huh, oh, oops, whew, whoa, wow, yahoo, yikes
modifier - CORRECT ANSWER word or group of words that provides a description of
another word
noun - CORRECT ANSWER person, place, thing or idea
object - CORRECT ANSWER a word or group of words that receives the action of a
verb
phrase - CORRECT ANSWER a group of words that work together as a unit
predicate - CORRECT ANSWER the part of a sentence that explains what the subject
does or is like
- verb
preposition - CORRECT ANSWER word that describes relationships between other
words
ex. about, above, according to, across, after, against, before, behind, below, beneath, in
spite of, instead of, into, like, outside, over, past, regarding, round
pronoun - CORRECT ANSWER a word that takes the place of a noun
ex. He, She, They, It, We, Who
subject - CORRECT ANSWER main noun of a sentence that is doing or being
verb - CORRECT ANSWER word that describes an action or state of being
complete predicate - CORRECT ANSWER verb and all of its complements and
modifiers
fragment - CORRECT ANSWER incomplete sentence [Show Less]