Key Terms 4.1-4.3

Question 1

Advice based on someone&#x27;s preference

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Prescriptive Grammar

Question 2

When two or more independent clauses are joined together innapropriately due to incorrect or absent punctuation

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Run-On

Question 3

A word or phrase replaced by a pronoun

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Antecedent

Question 4

Ideas which cannot be experienced directly with the senses

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Abstract Nouns

Question 5

Rules determining appropriate language use based on how it is actually used by speakers

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Descriptive Grammar

Question 6

Phrase or clause placed awkwardly in a sentence so that it appears to modify an unintended word

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Misplaced Modifier

Question 7

Part of the sentence that contains the verb and says something about the subject

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Predicate

Question 8

Words that identify specific persons, places, things, or ideas

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Abstract Nouns

Question 9

Two or more adjectives that build on one another and together modify a noun

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Cumulative Adjectives

Question 10

A word or phrase that modifies a word which is not actually in the sentence

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Dangling Modifier

Question 11

Adjective that is connected to the subject of the sentence by a linking verb

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Predicate Adjective

Question 12

Also called Paired Adjectives, are two or more adjectives that desctibe the same noun

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Coordinate Adjectives

Question 13

Words that refer to persons, places, things, or ideas of a general nature

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Common Nouns

Question 14

Collective term which refers to various technical aspects of your writing

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Mechanics

Question 15

A noun representing a group of individuals

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Collective Noun

Question 16

Persons, places, and things you can physically experience with the senses

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Concrete Nouns

Question 17

Phrase or clause written as a sentence but lacking the essential parts of subject and verb

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Sentence Fragment

Question 18

Shortened verson of a word, using an apostrophe

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Contraction

Question 19

Categories to which words are assigned based on their syntactic functions

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Parts of Speech

Question 20

Rules about the arrangement of words in phrases, clauses, and sentences

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Syntax

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