Test 12 Grammar Flashcards
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Group of words that don’t express a complete thought
Fragment
Two or more sentences incorrectly as one sentence
Run-on
Unity mean
Oneness
When you subordinate the wrong clause
Upside down subordination
Phrase or word on a sentence that modifies something but in the wrong place
Misplaced modifier
Phrase or clause that doesn’t modify anything
Dangling modifier
Two or more posible meanings for the same pronoun
Ambigious modifier
What phrase means it does not follow
Non sequitur
Two gerunds and one is an infinitive
Parallelism
Any unecesary shift in subject, voice, tense or view
Point of view
Only using as many words as necesary to express an idea correctly
Conciseness
Placing words in a sentence where the have the most strenght
Emphasis
Start sentences in different ways
Variety
Kind of dictionary has not been cutted down from a larger work
Unabridge dictionary
What is the term for the word or phrase to be defined?
Entry word
Indicates a short vowel sound
Breve
Macron
Long vowel sound
A brod vowel sound
Diaeresis
Indicates a uh sounds
Schwa
Field labels, geographical labels, and usage labels
Restrictive labels
Expression whose meaning cannot be derived from the individual words in the expression
Idiom
Gives the origin of the word
Etimology
Entry word plus the addition of a suffix
Run-on entry
Words similar in meaning
Synonyms