A short form of a word Abbreviation

Language Arts Terms I

A word that tells what people or things do.

Action Verb

A word that describes a noun and can tell what kind or how many.

Adjective

A word that describes a verb and tells how, when, or where

Adverb

The use of a singular verb with a singular subject and a plural verb with a plural subject

Agreement

A punctuation mark (‘) used in contractions and used to form possessive nouns

Apostrophe

a word or phrase that directly follows another noun and explains or identifies

Appositive

The adjectives a, an, and the

Articles

Person or people who read or listen to something

Audience

To think of different ideas

Brainstorm

Words in connected circles that show how ideas are related

Cluster

A punctuation mark (,) used to separate words in a sentence.

Comma

Names any person, place, or thing

Common Noun

Includes all the words in the predicate

Complete Predicate

Includes all the words in the subject

Complete Subject

Made by using and to combine the predicates of two sentences with the same subject

Compound Predicate

Two related, short sentences that have been combined, using a comma and the connection word, and, but, or or

Compound Sentence

Formed by using and to join the subjects of two sentences with the same predicate.

Compound Subject

A word that connects words or groups of words in a sentence

Conjunction

A shortened form of two words joined together. An apostrophe replaces the missing letter or letters.

Contraction

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