Semester 1 Glossary: Grammar Terms
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jkjk24 on December 20, 2009
Subjects:
english, american literature, Mr. Feely
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Glossary for the first semester of Mr. Feely's Amrican Lit. Class (in room 110). Grammar terms from our units with OWL on nouns, verbs, and commas
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Concrete Noun | a noun denoting something material and nonabstract |
| Abstract Noun | a noun denoting something immaterial and abstract |
| Indicator | something that indicates |
| Determiner | something that determines |
| Perfect Tense | a tense of verb that refers to something that has already been completed |
| Irregular Verb | verbs that change when changing tenses |
| Regular Verb | follows the pattern of taking -ed for the past simple and past participle |
| Independent Clause | A clause in a complex sentence that contains at least a subject and a verb and can stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence |
| Dependent Clause | clause that cannot stand alone as a full sentence and functions as a noun, adjective, or adverb within a sentence |
| Coordinating Conjunction | conjunction that connects two grammatical elements of identical construction |
| Clause | a syntactic construction containing a subject and predicate and forming part of a sentence or constituting a whole simple sentence |
| Phrase | a sequence of two or more words arranged in a grammatical construction and acting as a unit in a sentence |
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