Critical Vocab #6

Front

Auxiliary verb expressing necessity or possibility.

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Modal verbs

Front

A word or phrase that organizes discourse into segments.

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Discourse markers

Front

A grammatical mood that forms a command or request.

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imperative mood

Front

Arrangement of words and phrases for well-formed sentences.

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syntax

Front

A word/group of words functioning as subject, object, or prepositional object.

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noun phrases

Front

Part of a sentence with the verb and objects, excluding the subject.

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verb phrases

Front

Balance of similar phrases or clauses with the same grammatical structure.

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parallel structure

Front

A clause that can stand alone as a sentence.

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Independent clause

Front

A clause embedded in a complex sentence.

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dependent clause

Front

Combines a dependent clause with an independent clause.

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Complex sentence