AP Lang Grammar Quiz #2

Direct Verbs

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Terms in this set (12)

use forms of "to be" and other linking verbs sparingly and with specific reasoning (ex. made the discovery --> discovered)

Sentence Fragments

An incomplete sentence that may lack a subject, a verb, or both; incomplete sentence that readers understand to be complete (ex. "Is it social equality?")

Replaces a noun (ex. I, he, she, they, it, his)

a noun or noun phrase that tells you more about a nearby noun or pronoun (ex. "according to the Rutgers criminologist Todd Clear..." Todd Clear is the appositive for criminologist)

words or phrases that change the meanings of or add details to other words or phrases in a sentence

Verbs that make writing forceful, clear, and lively by describing action in a way that is understandable for the reader

make for an easy-to-picture subject doing something (ex. that had been set --> had set)

the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing

Simple Sentences

contains one subject and one predicate (ex. "There is a problem, though.")

Sexist Pronouns

unnecessarily restrict the gender of the person or persons in question (ex. "a novelist's chief desire... he has to induce himself...")