ATI Teas Test 7 English Vocabulary
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Summaries
homophones - Words that sound the same, such as "new" and "knew", but have different
meanings.
Homographs - Words that are spelled the same, such as "bass" (a fish) and "bass" (a musical
instrument), but have different meanings and may be pronounced differently.
Plural - More than one item
Context - Surrounding words or ideas within a sentence or passage that affect the meaning of a
word and influence how it is understood
Parts of speech - Eight categories for classifying words: adjective, adverb, conjunction,
interjection, noun, preposition, pronoun, and verb.
Comma - Punctuation mark used to separate parts of sentences
Oxford comma - The comma before the "and" in a simple series of items
Conjunction - A connecting word
Independent clause - A group of words that includes a subject and predicate and can stand
alone as a complete sentence because it expresses a complete thought.
Compound sentence - Sentence that contains at least two independent clauses
, Phrase - A group of words that work together as a unit
Coordinate adjvectives - Two equally weighted adjectives that describe the same noun and
require a comma between them
Dependent clause - A group of words that includes a subject and verb but cannot stand alone as
a complete sentence because it does not express a complete thought
Subject - The main noun of a sentence that is doing or being.
Simple sentence - Sentence that contains only one idea or independent clause and uses only an
end mark
Complex sentence - Sentence that contains an independent clause and a dependent clause
Transition words - Words that link or introduce ideas
Apostrophe - Punctuation mark that denotes possessive case or omission of letters.
Article - Word ("a," "an," or "the") that refers to a noun
End marks - Punctuation marks that end sentences: period, question mark, and exclamation
mark.
Exclamation mark - End mark that denotes strong feeling
All-in-One Exam Prep File | Practice Papers, A+ Model Answers, and Key Topic
Summaries
homophones - Words that sound the same, such as "new" and "knew", but have different
meanings.
Homographs - Words that are spelled the same, such as "bass" (a fish) and "bass" (a musical
instrument), but have different meanings and may be pronounced differently.
Plural - More than one item
Context - Surrounding words or ideas within a sentence or passage that affect the meaning of a
word and influence how it is understood
Parts of speech - Eight categories for classifying words: adjective, adverb, conjunction,
interjection, noun, preposition, pronoun, and verb.
Comma - Punctuation mark used to separate parts of sentences
Oxford comma - The comma before the "and" in a simple series of items
Conjunction - A connecting word
Independent clause - A group of words that includes a subject and predicate and can stand
alone as a complete sentence because it expresses a complete thought.
Compound sentence - Sentence that contains at least two independent clauses
, Phrase - A group of words that work together as a unit
Coordinate adjvectives - Two equally weighted adjectives that describe the same noun and
require a comma between them
Dependent clause - A group of words that includes a subject and verb but cannot stand alone as
a complete sentence because it does not express a complete thought
Subject - The main noun of a sentence that is doing or being.
Simple sentence - Sentence that contains only one idea or independent clause and uses only an
end mark
Complex sentence - Sentence that contains an independent clause and a dependent clause
Transition words - Words that link or introduce ideas
Apostrophe - Punctuation mark that denotes possessive case or omission of letters.
Article - Word ("a," "an," or "the") that refers to a noun
End marks - Punctuation marks that end sentences: period, question mark, and exclamation
mark.
Exclamation mark - End mark that denotes strong feeling
