Test 12 Grammar Flashcards

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Group of words that don’t express a complete thought

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Fragment

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Two or more sentences incorrectly as one sentence

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Run-on

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3
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Unity mean

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Oneness

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4
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When you subordinate the wrong clause

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Upside down subordination

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Phrase or word on a sentence that modifies something but in the wrong place

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Misplaced modifier

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Phrase or clause that doesn’t modify anything

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Dangling modifier

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7
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Two or more posible meanings for the same pronoun

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Ambigious modifier

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8
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What phrase means it does not follow

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Non sequitur

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9
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Two gerunds and one is an infinitive

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Parallelism

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10
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Any unecesary shift in subject, voice, tense or view

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Point of view

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Only using as many words as necesary to express an idea correctly

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Conciseness

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12
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Placing words in a sentence where the have the most strenght

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Emphasis

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13
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Start sentences in different ways

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Variety

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14
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Kind of dictionary has not been cutted down from a larger work

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Unabridge dictionary

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15
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What is the term for the word or phrase to be defined?

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Entry word

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16
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Indicates a short vowel sound

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Breve

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17
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Macron

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Long vowel sound

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18
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A brod vowel sound

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Diaeresis

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19
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Indicates a uh sounds

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Schwa

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20
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Field labels, geographical labels, and usage labels

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Restrictive labels

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21
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Expression whose meaning cannot be derived from the individual words in the expression

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Idiom

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22
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Gives the origin of the word

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Etimology

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23
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Entry word plus the addition of a suffix

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Run-on entry

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24
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Words similar in meaning

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Synonyms

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Usage for academic papers
Standard formal
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Language of everyday speech
Standard informal or coloquial
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Should be never be used on writting
Substandard or nonstandard
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Words used rarely in modern English
Archaic
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Obsolete words
Words that are never used anymore
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The idea of going beyond meaning
Connotation
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Straight dictionary definition
Denotation
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Uses a comparison using the words like or as
Simile
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Does not use words like or as
Metaphor
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Statement that conveis its meaning through strong exageration
Hyperbole
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Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects
Personification
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Language of officialdom
Gobbledygook
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Expressions which are dull or stale because of overuse
Trite
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The needless repetition of words or ideas
Redundancy
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The result of some action
Effect
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To influence
Affect
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To mention something specifically
Refer
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three or more things
Among
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Location of something
Side
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Before a noun or pronoun
Different from
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To leave a country
Emigrate
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The reason is
that
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Crooked or twisted
Tortuous
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When would I abbreviate venerable and honorable
When is used before a full name and the word the is not before
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Can you divide a one syllable word?
No
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MM
Misplaced modifier
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PV
Point of view
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Sub
Subordination
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WW
Wrong word
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What words do you capitalize when is a title of a book
First word, last word, and any important words
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Mark of punctuation after the salutation of a business letter
Colon
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Mark of punctuation to enclose bried confirmatory information
Parenthesis
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Mark of punctuation to enclose editorial corrections, comments, or explanations in quoted matter
Brackets
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Always go outside of closing quotation marks
Colons and semicolons
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Always go inside of closing quoration marks
Periods and comas
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You should use hypen with numbers from
21 to 99
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Mark of punctuation is used to show possession
Apostrophe
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Somthing is said
Subject
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How a noun or pronoun is related
Pronoun
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Group of related words
Clause
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Group of related words without a subject
Phrase
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Word which a pronoun stands
Antecedent
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Word that takes the place of a noun
Pronoun
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Pronoun used to introduce dependent clauses
Relative pronouns
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Verbal always a noun
Gerund
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Form of a noun or pronoun that determines if it's singular or plural
The number
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Subject is doing the action
Active voice
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Subject receiving the action
Passive
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Mood gives a command or request
Imperative
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Mood states a fact or ask a question
Indicative
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Mood expreses an action or condition as a conception of the mind rather than reality
Subjunctive
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Subject of an infinitive are always
Objective case
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Case use to modify a gerund
Possesive case