Grammar Terms

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apostrophe

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A punctuation mark used to indicate possession or the omission of letters.

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comma for list

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A punctuation mark used to separate items in a list.

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subordinating conjunction

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A conjunction that introduces a subordinate clause.

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modal verbs

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Verbs that express necessity or possibility (e.g., can, could, may, might, must, shall, should, will, would).

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speech marks

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Punctuation marks used to denote spoken words (also known as quotation marks).

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subordinating clause

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A clause that cannot stand alone as a complete sentence and is dependent on a main clause.

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pronouns

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Words that replace nouns in a sentence.

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possessive pronouns

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Pronouns that show ownership (e.g., mine, yours, his, hers, its, ours, theirs).

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phrases

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Groups of words that work together but do not contain a subject-verb pair.

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idioms

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Expressions whose meanings are not predictable from the usual meanings of their constituent elements.