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Glossary of Language Arts Terms
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A short form of a word
Abbreviation
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A word that tells what people or things did
Action verb
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A word that describes a noun and can tell what kind or how many
Adjective
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A word that describes a verb and tells how, when, or where
Adverb
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The use of a singular verb with a singular subject and a plural subject with a plural verb
Agreement
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A punctuation mark (‘) used in contractions and used to form possessive words
Apostrophe
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A word or phrase that directly follows another noun and explains or identifies it
Appositive
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The adjectives a, an, and the
Articles
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Person or people who read or listen to something
Audience
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To think of different ideas
Brainstorm
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Words in connected circles that show how ideas are related
Cluster
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A punctuation mark (,) used to separate words in a sentence
Comma
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Names any person, place, or thing
Common noun
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Includes all the words in the predicate
Complete Predicate
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Two related, short sentences that have been combined using a comma and the connection word and, but, or or
Compound sentence
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Formed by using and to join the subjects of two sentences with the same predicate
Compound subject
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A word that connects words or groups of words in a sentence
Conjunction
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A shortened form of two words joined together. An apostrophe replaces the missing letter or letters
Contraction
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Standard rules of spelling, grammar, usage, capitalization, and punctuation
Conventions
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Makes a statement and ends with a period
Declarative sentence
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Tells which one (this, that, these, and those)
Demonstrative adjective
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Exact facts Details
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Someone’s exact Direct quotation
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The part of the writing process when the writer first puts ideas on paper in the form of a composition
Drafting
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To give more details
Elaborate
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Shows strong feeling. It ends with an exclamation mark (!)
Exclamatory sentence
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Shows action that will happen in the future
Future tense
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A verb that comes before the main verb, such as have, has, had
Helping verb
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Thoughts that form the main points of a composition
Ideas
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Gives a command and ends with a period (.)
Imperative sentence
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To begin the first line of a sentence a few spaces in from the margin
Indent
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A word that shows strong feelings
Interjection
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Asks a question and ends with a question mark (?)
Interrogative sentence
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Verbs that do not add –ed to show past action
Irregular Verb
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The most important thought
Main idea
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The most important verb
Main verb
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A word that means “no”
Negative
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Word that names a person, place, or thing
Noun
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Words that signal sequence, such as first, next, or last
Order words
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The structure of a composition
Organization
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A group of sentences that tell about the main idea
Paragraph
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A verb that shows action that has already happened
Past tense
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A group of words that does not have a subject or a predicate
Phrase
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Names more than one person, place, or thing
Plural noun
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Shows ownership. It is formed by adding an apostrophe to a plural noun
Plural possessive noun
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A noun that shows ownership. It is formed by adding an apostrophe and s to a singular noun
Possessive noun
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May be used in place of a possessive noun
Possessive pronoun
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Tells what the subject of a sentence does or is
Predicate
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A word that shows the connection between other words in a sentence, such as at, for, with, or after
Preposition
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A group of words that begins with a preposition and ends with a noun or pronoun
Prepositional phrase
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A verb that shows action that is happening now
Present tense
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The way in which writers share their writing with an audience
Presentation
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The part of the writing process when the writer chooses a topic and plans the composition
Prewriting
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A word that replaces one or more nouns
Pronoun
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The part of the writing process when the writing is checked for mistakes
Proofreading
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An adjective formed from a proper noun and capitalized
Proper adjective
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A word that names a particular person, place, or thing and is capitalized
Proper noun
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The part of the writing process when writers make the final copy of their composition
Publish
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The goal of the composition
Purpose
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Punctuation used before (“) and after (“) a direct quotation
Quotation marks
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The part of the writing process when the writer tries to improve the working draft
Revising
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Has two complete thoughts that run into each other
Run-on sentence
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Words that describe how something looks, sounds, feels, tastes, or smells
Sensory words
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A group of words that tells a complete thought Sentence
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The structure and order of sentences so that a composition reads smoothly
Sentence fluency
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A list of three or more words in a sentence Series
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The main word in the complete predicate Simple predicate
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The main word in the complete subject Simple subject
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Names one person, place or thing Singular noun
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Tells whom or what a sentence is about Subject
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Tell more details or information about a main idea
Supporting sentences
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The form of a verb that identifies whether something happens in the present, past, or future
Tense
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The subject of a discussion or a composition
Topic
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States a main idea Topic sentence
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Words that connect sentences or ideas, such as also
Transitional words
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The use of words to show the writer’s personality
Voice
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Words in connected circles that show how ideas are related
Web
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The selection of interesting , exact words Word choice
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A composition that is not yet a final Working draft
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A discussion between a writer and a reader about the writer’s composition
Writing conference
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A series of steps (prewriting, drafting, revising, proofreading, publishing) that a writer follows to write a composition
Writing process
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