Hello Everyone. Here is a different exercise. I would like everyone to add to the definitions below. This is a wiki, so when you add/edit someone's definitions, your next text will be there. It's sort of like a Word document that we are all working on together. Here are the rules. NO DICTIONARIES! NO INTERNET! ONLY OUR COLLECTIVE BRAINS. (You're on your honor here.) On Tuesday, we'll check the answers in class. I've added just a few ideas on some to get us going. Let's work together to refine these definitions to perfection. When you are ready to edit, just click edit on the right and then SAVE.
Noun - person, place, or thing, can be a subject of a sentence or an object of. Could be an idea
Verb - an action or state of being
Transitive verb - a verb that has an agent directly performing the action and is followed by an object or phrase. Descripition of an action.
Antecedent - precedes
Relative clause -
Clause - has subject and verb, can be either independent (able to stand alone) or dependent (needs more in order to express a complete thought)
Phrase - an incomplete thought that can be placed in different parts of a sentence, does not contain both a subject and a verb
Constituent - discrete units that make up sentences of which we have an instinctive knowledge.
Syntax - the grammatical rules for forming sentences. The knowledge of developing sentences that are
Hello Everyone. Here is a different exercise. I would like everyone to add to the definitions below. This is a wiki, so when you add/edit someone's definitions, your next text will be there. It's sort of like a Word document that we are all working on together. Here are the rules. NO DICTIONARIES! NO INTERNET! ONLY OUR COLLECTIVE BRAINS. (You're on your honor here.) On Tuesday, we'll check the answers in class. I've added just a few ideas on some to get us going. Let's work together to refine these definitions to perfection. When you are ready to edit, just click edit on the right and then SAVE.
Noun - person, place, or thing, can be a subject of a sentence or an object of. Could be an idea
Verb - an action or state of being
Transitive verb - a verb that has an agent directly performing the action and is followed by an object or phrase. Descripition of an action.
Antecedent - precedes
Relative clause -
Clause - has subject and verb, can be either independent (able to stand alone) or dependent (needs more in order to express a complete thought)
Phrase - an incomplete thought that can be placed in different parts of a sentence, does not contain both a subject and a verb
Constituent - discrete units that make up sentences of which we have an instinctive knowledge.
Syntax - the grammatical rules for forming sentences. The knowledge of developing sentences that are
Ambiguity - anonymous (not sure of) meaning. Unclear
Direct Object - the object that receives the action of a sentence. It is the answer when you ask "who" or "what" did the action.
Subject - a noun, the word a verb modifies. the part of the sentence that describes what is being talked about or asked.
Determiner - it comes before a noun and specifies if it a general or specific noun
preposition - answers the question "where?" e.g At, is, of