MTEL Communication & Literacy Skills: Writing Subtest Review Questions & Solutions Correct 100%!!

absolute phrase - ANSWER a phrase that is related to a sentence in meaning, but has no grammatical relationship to the phrase. Ex. "The movie over......," abstract noun - ANSWER a noun that names a quality or mental concept active voice - ANSWER the subject performs the action antecedent - ANSWER the noun, usually before the pronoun, that the pronoun replaces. clause - ANSWER a group of related words containing both a subject and a predicate. comparative adjective - ANSWER compares two persons, places or things. It is usually followed by "than". ex. colder than complement - ANSWER a word often used to complete the meaning of an intransitive verb without receiving the intransitive verb's action and with copulative (linking) verbs to describe state of being. concrete noun - ANSWER a noun that names a member of a class; a group of people, places, or things that is physical, visible, and tangible coordinating conjunction - ANSWER a word used to connect grammatically equal elements. These include and, but, or, nor, for, so, and yet. countable noun - ANSWER a noun that can be maid plural via changing the ending, usually by adding "s" dangling modifier - ANSWER A modifiying phrase or clause that does not sensibly modify any word or words in a sentence. Usually the actor is missing from the sentence. (Ex. "Reading a book, the black cat crawled onto my lap." The cat was not reading the book. To fix: add an actor to the sentence.) demonstrative pronoun - ANSWER a noun that points out a specific person, place, or thing without naming it (Ex: this, that, these, those) direct object - ANSWER a word that receives a direct action from the subject of the sentence. Answers the question what or whom.