Guaranteed Vocabulary

Two complete sentences joined together by a comma and a FANBOY conjuction

• simple sentence

• compound sentence

• complex sentence

A dependent and an independent clause with a subordinating conjunction

• simple sentence

• compound sentence

• complex sentence

the "who or what" of a sentence

• subject

• predicate

• independent clause

• dependent clause

the "did what" of a sentence - where the verb is located

• subject

• predicate

• independent clause

• dependent clause

a person, place, or thing

• noun

• verb

• adjective

• adverb

a word that shows an action

• noun

• verb

• adjective

• adverb

Words from a text that prove a point you are making

• predicate

• claim

• text evidence

• inferring

A word or phrase that starts a sentence

• verb

• simile

• roots (Greek & Latin)

• introductory element

Taking main ideas from multiple sources to create a new text

• prediction

• synthesizing

• summarizing

• compare & contrast

Pieces of a word that give clues to what the word means

• Roots (Greek & Latin)

• nouns

• narrator

• idioms