ATI TEAS 7 English Language Study Guide

ATI TEAS 7 English Language Study Guide Sentence structures • Adverb - Word or phrase that describes or modifies an adjective, verb, or another adverb • Article - Words (a and an) that refer to nouns • Complement - Sentence part that gives more information about a subject or object • Conjunction - A connecting word • Dependent Clause - A group of words that includes a subject and verb but cannot stand alone as a complete sentence • Independent Clause - A group of words that includes a subject and predicate and can stand alone as a complement sentence • Indirect Object - The person or thing to whom or which something is done • Interjection - Words or phrases that represent short bursts of emotion • Modifier - A word or group of words that provides description for another word Spelling: Homograph - Word spelled the same but that have different meanings (bat, bow) Homophone - Words pronounced the same but that have different meanings Punctuation • Colon - Used in introduction of a quote or list, ratio, and time. • Comma- before “and” in a simple series of items (commas, colons, and...) • Object - A word or group of words that receives the action of a verb • Predicate - The part of a sentence that explains what the subject does or is like • Preposition - A word that describes relationships between other words • Pronoun - A word that takes the place of a noun • Subject - The main noun of a sentence that is doing or being • Compound-Complex Sentence - Sentence that includes two independent and one dependent clause Example: “The cute, furry dog wagged its tail with joy.” Simple subject - dog Article and modifiers - the cute, furry dog Simple predicate - wagged Complete predicate and direct object - its tail Prepositional modifier - with joy