English Exam Vocab – Flashcards
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A word that shows the relationship of a noun or pronoun to another word
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Preposition
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Identify the preposition The package under the tree is mine.
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Under
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Identify the preposition The tennis ball is from the new athletic store.
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From
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Identify the object of the preposition The package under the tree is mine.
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Tree
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Identify the object of the preposition The tennis ball is from the new athletic store.
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Store
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A word used to express emotion.
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Interjection
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Identify the Interjection Oh! You surprised me!
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Oh
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Identify the interjection Wow! That was fun!
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Wow
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A word used to join words or groups of words.
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Conjunction
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Identify the conjunction She likes chocolate and gum.
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And
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Identify the conjunction She wanted to play, but she had to study.
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But
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A noun, pronoun, or word group that tells who or what receives the action of the verb.
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Direct Object
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Identify the direct object Our history class built a model of the Alamo.
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Model
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Identify the direct object The man wore a hat.
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Hat
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A noun, pronoun, or word group that tells to whom, to what, for whom, or for what the action of the verb is done.
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Indirect Object
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Identify the Indirect Object The boy showed the class his collection of comic books.
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Class
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Identify the indirect object She brought us a chess set.
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Us
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A word or word group that completes the meaning of a linking verb and that identifies or describes the subject.
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Subject Complement
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Identify the subject complement Mrs. Hebert is an English teacher.
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Teacher
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Identify the subject complement The lemonade tastes sour.
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Sour
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This includes a preposition, a noun or pronoun called the object of the preposition, and any modifiers of that object
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Prepositional Phrase
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Identify the prepositional phrase She ran through the town.
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Through the town
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Identify the prepositional phrase The new quilt was put on the bed.
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On the bed
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A verb form that is used as an adjective
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Participle
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Identify the participle The smiling child waved.
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Smiling
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Identify the participle The horses trotting past were not afraid of the people.
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Trotting
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This consists of a participle and any modifiers the participle has. This entire phrase is used as an adjective.
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Participial Phrase
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Identify the participial phrase Seeing itself in the mirror, the duck seemed quite bewildered.
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Seeing itself in the mirror
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Identify the participial phrase Trimming the hedges this morning, the girl saw a Cardinal bird.
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Trimming the hedges this morning
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A verb form ending in -ing that is used as a noun.
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Gerund
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Identify the gerund Skiing down that slope was fun.
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Skiing
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Identify the gerund Give sailing a try.
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Sailing
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This consists of a gerund and any modifiers the gerund has. The entire phrase is used as a noun.
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Gerund Phrase
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Identify the gerund phrase Having a part-time job may interfere with your schoolwork.
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Having a part-time job
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Identify the gerund phrase The townspeople heard the loud clanging of the fire bell.
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The loud clanging of the fire bell
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A verb form that can be used as a noun, an adjective, or an adverb. Most of these begin with "to".
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Infinitive
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Identify the infinitive To install the ceiling fan took two hours.
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To install
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Identify the infinitive The gymnasts were ready to practice their routines.
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To practice
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This consists of an infinitive and any modifiers the infinitive has. The entire phrase may be used as a noun, adjective, or an adverb.
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Infinitive Phrase
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Identify the infinitive phrase The crowd grew quiet to hear the speaker.
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To hear the speaker
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Identify the infinitive phrase To lift those weights takes great strength.
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To lift those weights
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A noun or pronoun that is placed beside another noun or pronoun to identify or describe it.
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Appositive
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Identify the appositive I chose one person, her, to organize volunteers.
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Her
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Identify the appositive The cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was the first person in space.
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Yuri Gagarin
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This consists of an appositive and its modifiers.
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Appositive Phrase
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Identify the appositive phrase Officer Webb, one of the security guards, caught the burglar.
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One of the security guards
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Identify the appositive phrase Leonardo Da Vinci, an Italian painter known for his artworks, was also an architect, engineer, and scientist.
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An Italian painter known for his artworks
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Use ___________ or italics for titles and subtitles of books, plays, periodicals, works of art, films, television series, long musical compositions and recordings, ships, trains, spacecrafts, and aircrafts.
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Underlining
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Underline or quotes? book: Little Women
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Underline
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Underline or quotes? Play: A Doll's House
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Underline
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Use ________ to enclose titles and subtitles or small works such as short stories, poems, essays, articles, songs, episodes of television series, and chapters and other parts of books.
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Quotes
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Underline or quotes? Song: Amazing Grace
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Quotes
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Underline or quotes? Poem: Easter 1916
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Quotes
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__________ the first word in every sentence, proper nouns, people, animals, geographical names, heavenly bodies, teams, organizations, institutions, government bodies, holidays, historical periods, months, days, nationalities, sacred writings, specific deities, names of buildings, monuments, memorials, awards, trains, ships, aircrafts, spacecrafts, businesses, businesses' products, proper adjectives, titles, and family relationship words .
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Capitalize
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Capitalize the word that needs to be corrected i want a snack.
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I
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Capitalize the word that needs to be corrected He won the nobel prize.
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Nobel Prize
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Use this at the end of a declarative sentence.
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Period
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Use this at the end of an interrogative sentence
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Question mark
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Use this at the end of an exclamatory sentence
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Exclamation Point
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Use ______ or _________ at the end of an imperative sentence.
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Period, Exclamation point
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Use a __________ to separate items in a series, or two or more adjectives preceding a noun
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Comma
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Use __________________ to enclose a person's direct quotation- a person's exact words
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Quotation Marks
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This is used to form the possessive case of nouns and some pronouns, to indicate in a contraction where letters or numbers have been taken out, and to form some plurals.
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Apostrophe
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Write the word that needs an apostrophe correctly. Ciaras vocab on quizlet.
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Ciara's
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Write the word that needs an apostrophe correctly. I cant believe this is our last week of school!
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Can't
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This is used to divide a word at the end of a line.
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Hyphen
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Where should the hyphen go in this word if it was at the end of the line? imagined
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imag-ined
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Where should the hyphen go in this word if it was at the end of the line? tyrannosaurs
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tyran-nosaurs
