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Correct Answers
Appositive - ✔✔a noun or noun phrase that renames another noun right beside it
Sentence Fragment - ✔✔fails to be a sentence in the sense that it cannot stand by itself
Conjunctive Adverbs - ✔✔adverb that connects two independent clauses (Conjunctive adverbs show
cause and effect, sequence, contrast, comparison, or other relationships.)
Adjective Phrases - ✔✔group of words that describe a noun or pronoun in a sentence
Equal Comparisons - ✔✔When things being compared have equal characteristics (The book is as good
as the movie. The boy is as tall as the girl.)
Conjunctions - ✔✔a word used to connect clauses or sentences or to coordinate words in the
same clause
Noun phrases - ✔✔a word or group of words that functions in a sentence as subject, object,
or prepositional object
Parts of Speech - ✔✔a category to which a word is assigned in accordance with its syntactic functions
(In English the main parts of speech are noun, pronoun, adjective, determiner, verb, adverb, preposition,
conjunction, and interjection.)
Pronoun - ✔✔a word that can function by itself as a noun phrase and that refers either to
the participants in the discourse
Linking verbs - ✔✔tells us more about the subject's "state of being"
Correct Answers
Appositive - ✔✔a noun or noun phrase that renames another noun right beside it
Sentence Fragment - ✔✔fails to be a sentence in the sense that it cannot stand by itself
Conjunctive Adverbs - ✔✔adverb that connects two independent clauses (Conjunctive adverbs show
cause and effect, sequence, contrast, comparison, or other relationships.)
Adjective Phrases - ✔✔group of words that describe a noun or pronoun in a sentence
Equal Comparisons - ✔✔When things being compared have equal characteristics (The book is as good
as the movie. The boy is as tall as the girl.)
Conjunctions - ✔✔a word used to connect clauses or sentences or to coordinate words in the
same clause
Noun phrases - ✔✔a word or group of words that functions in a sentence as subject, object,
or prepositional object
Parts of Speech - ✔✔a category to which a word is assigned in accordance with its syntactic functions
(In English the main parts of speech are noun, pronoun, adjective, determiner, verb, adverb, preposition,
conjunction, and interjection.)
Pronoun - ✔✔a word that can function by itself as a noun phrase and that refers either to
the participants in the discourse
Linking verbs - ✔✔tells us more about the subject's "state of being"
