English 002 Quiz #1
Phrase
A group of words.
Journal
A notebook of your personal writing, a notebook in which your write regularly and often. It is not a diary, but it is a place to record your experiences, reactions, and observations.
Complex sentence
A sentence that has one independent clause and one (or more) dependent, clause(s).
Simple sentence
A string of words satisfying the grammatical rules of a language.
Adjective
A word that expresses an attribute of something.
Verb
A word that serves as the predicate of a sentence.
Being verbs
About the five senses-Sight, touch, smell, taste, sound.
Topic
Also called theme. Linguistics . the part of a sentence that announces the item about which the rest of the sentence communicates information, often signaled by initial position in the sentence or by a grammatical marker.
Dominant impression
Also known as the main point of the description. In a descriptive paragraph, it is the topic sentence. For example of a topic sentence: The Garage is my husband's territory.
Purpose
An anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions.
Clause
An expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence.
Dependent clause
An expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence.
Word
Basic unit of language.
Subordinating
Changing an independent clause to a dependent one.
Critical thinking
Characterized by careful evaluation and judgment.
Similar types
Example: All about the flowers, then all about the trees in a park.
Unity
Focusing on one idea or one point.
Drafting and revising
How to create, revise, and edit rough drafts.
Prewriting
How to generate and develop ideas of your paragraph.
Planning
How to organize your ideas.
Proofreading
How to proofread and make one final check.
Helping verbs
Is, am, are, was, were, do, must, might, have, has, shall, will, can, could, may, should, would.
Nouns
Persons, place, or thing.
Structure
Prep+conj+noun (or pronoun)
Time Sequence
Putting description in order first to last in a paragraph.
Editing
Putting something (as a literary work or a legislative bill) into acceptable form.
Prepositions
Relates a noun or pronoun to another word in sentence.
Revising
Revise or reorganize, especially for the purpose of updating and improving.
Interrogative sentence
Sentence asks a question.
Exclamatory sentence
Sentence expresses emotion.
Imperative sentence
Sentence gives a command or request. The subject "you" is often omitted.
Description
Shows a reader what a person, place, thing, or situation is like. When describing; show, not tell.
Action verbs
Something done (usually as opposed to something said).
Declarative sentence
Statement that ends in a period.
Pronoun
Substitutes for a noun.
Interjections
The action of interjecting or interposing an action or remark that interrupts.
Paragraph
The basic building block of any essay. It is a group of sentences focusing on one idea or one point.
Brainstorming
The clear (and often sudden) understanding of a complex situation.
Conjunctions
The grammatical relation between linguistic units (words or phrases or clauses) that are connected by a conjunction.
Coordinating conjunction
The grammatical relation between linguistic units (words or phrases or clauses) that are connected by a conjunction.
Subordinating conjunction
The grammatical relation of a modifying word or phrase to its head.
Audience
The people who will read and understand your writing on their own.
Adverb
The word class that qualifies verbs or clauses.
Freewriting
To find the subject you feel comfortable to write about.
Spatial position
Top to bottom, or right to left in a paragraph.
Compound sentence
Two simple sentences (or independent clauses) joined into one.
Clause
When the group of words contains a subject and a verb.
Sentence or Independent clause
When the word group has a subject and a verb makes sense by itself.
Adding transitions
Words, phrases, or sentences that link ideas.
