ATI Teas English Practice Exam with Verified Questions and Answers

ATI Teas English Practice Exam with Verified Questions and Answers compound sentence - CORRECT ANSWER a sentence with more than one subject or predicate. simple sentence - CORRECT ANSWER a sentence consisting of only one clause, with a single subject and predicate. complex sentence - CORRECT ANSWER a sentence containing a subordinate clause or clauses compound complex sentence - CORRECT ANSWER a sentence having two or more coordinate independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses ex. While Tom reads novels, Jack reads comics, but Sam only reads magazines. subordinate clause - CORRECT ANSWER a clause, typically introduced by a conjunction, that forms part of and is dependent on a main clause ex. "when it rang" in "she answered the phone when it rang" apostrophe - CORRECT ANSWER punctuation mark that denotes omission of letters or possessive case colon - CORRECT ANSWER punctuation mark used in introduction of a quote or list, ratio, and time comma - CORRECT ANSWER - punctuation make used to separate parts of sentences - help identify identify independent and dependent clauses end marks - CORRECT ANSWER punctuation marks that end sentences: period, question mark, and exclamation point parentheses - CORRECT ANSWER punctuation marks that set off explanatory material within text direct quotations - CORRECT ANSWER - the exact words of someone else woven into your writing - placed inside quotation marks ex. Dr. King said, "I have a dream." indirect quotations - CORRECT ANSWER - a paraphrase of someone else's words: it reports on what a person said without using the exact words of the speaker ex. Dr. King said that he had a dream. parts of speech - CORRECT ANSWER noun, pronoun, verb, adverb, preposition, conjunction and interjection adjective - CORRECT ANSWER word or phrase that describes or modifies a noun adverb - CORRECT ANSWER word or phrase that describes or modifies an adjective, verb or other adverb - end in -ly article - CORRECT ANSWER words (a and an) that refer to nouns complement - CORRECT ANSWER sentence part that give more information about a subject or object dependent clause - CORRECT ANSWER group of words that includes a subject and verb but CANNOT stand alone as a complete sentence independent clause - CORRECT ANSWER group of words that includes a subject and predicate and CAN stand alone as a complete sentence indirect object - CORRECT ANSWER the person or thing to whom or which something is done interjection - CORRECT ANSWER words or phrases that represent short bursts of emotion ex. hello, hooray, huh, oh, oops, whew, whoa, wow, yahoo, yikes modifier - CORRECT ANSWER word or group of words that provides a description of another word noun - CORRECT ANSWER person, place, thing or idea object - CORRECT ANSWER a word or group of words that receives the action of a verb phrase - CORRECT ANSWER a group of words that work together as a unit predicate - CORRECT ANSWER the part of a sentence that explains what the subject does or is like - verb preposition - CORRECT ANSWER word that describes relationships between other words ex. about, above, according to, across, after, against, before, behind, below, beneath, in spite of, instead of, into, like, outside, over, past, regarding, round pronoun - CORRECT ANSWER a word that takes the place of a noun ex. He, She, They, It, We, Who subject - CORRECT ANSWER main noun of a sentence that is doing or being verb - CORRECT ANSWER word that describes an action or state of being complete predicate - CORRECT ANSWER verb and all of its complements and modifiers fragment - CORRECT ANSWER incomplete sentence perfective - CORRECT ANSWER a verb for an item that has been completed ex. written - can be in past, present or future tense as well: had written, has written and will have writte