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Appositives (Eng 3, Unit 2, Assignment 13)Elliptical Clauses :: (*Pronouns after "than" or "as")Ignitia: English 3, Unit 3, Assignment 5 (Pronoun Case, Part 1)
Ignitia: English 3, Unit 3, Assignment 7: Pronoun Reference
Linking VerbsLinking Verbs (Grammar Bytes)
Modifiers are words (such as adjectives & adverbs) that qualify other words (ex: the, not) --or-- groups of words (such as prepositional phrases or infinitive phrases) that qualify other words (ex: by the teacher, to complete the project)
Adjectives & AdverbsCommasRules for Using Commas (Purdue OWL)
Prepositional PhrasesComplements are "completers of thought." They can be direct objects (receives the action of the verb), indirect objects, subject complements (restates or describes the subject), or objective complements.
Subject ComplementsSubject Complements (Grammar Bytes)
Objective ComplementsObjective/Object Complements (English Grammar.org)
Clauses (Eng 3, Unit 2, Assignment 1)Noun Clauses: (Eng 3, Unit 2, Assignment 3)
*words that may begin noun clauses are that, if, whether, how, what, when, where, which, who, whom, whose, why, however, whatever, whenever, whichever, whoever, whomever Adjective Clauses/Relative Clauses: (Eng 3, U2, A2)
Adverb Clauses: (Eng 3, Unit 2, Assignment 2)
The Adverbial Clause (from Grammar Monster)
Subordinate Clauses:
IdiomsActive voice vs. Passive VoiceNominative AbsoluteEnglish Plus
Ignitia: English 4 Unit 4 Assignment 4
Traditional vs. Structural Linguistics Ignitia: English 4 Unit 4 Assignment 5 Generative/Transformational Grammar
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The Kathleen Jones White Writing Center (Indiana Univ of Pennsylvania)
Student Interactive Practice (from Utah Education Network)
The subject of a sentence is a noun (simple subject) or noun phrase (complete subject) about which something is being stated or asked. It causes the action in the sentence.
The predicate of a sentence is the verb (simple predicate) or verb phrase (complete predicate). Subject & Object PronounsPronounsNominative & Objective CaseComplements are "completers of thought." They can be direct objects (receives the action of the verb), indirect objects, subject complements (restates or describes the subject), or objective complements.
Direct Objects & Predicate NounsIndirect ObjectsIndirect Objects (Grammar Bytes)
ParticiplesWhat are Participles? (from Grammar Bytes)
Gerunds (Eng 3, Unit 2, Assignment 8)*Gerund = "Verb + ing" used as a noun*
What are Gerunds? (from Grammar Bytes)
Infinitives *An infinitive is "to + verb"*What is an Infinitive? (from Grammar Bytes)
Verbals *gerunds, infinitives, & participles that function as nouns, adjectives, & adverbs* (Eng 3, Unit 2, A 8, 9, & 11 and Eng 4, Unit 2, A 9-12)Using Modifiers Correctly (Eng 3, Unit 3, A10)Types of SentencesChallenging (Commonly Confused) WordsFurther & Farther
20 word-pairs (from English Chick.com)
35 Easily Confused Words (Indiana Univ. of Penn.)
Parallelism (balance) in Sentences (Eng 3, Unit 3, Assignment 11 and Eng 4, Unit 1, A 15)Parallelism with items in a series ( Grammar Bytes)
English 4, Unit 1 Errors in Writing
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