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Common Core Language Arts Vocabulary
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common-core
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Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Modfies verbs - adjectives - other adverbs - or entire clauses - they often answer of the following questions: How - When - Where - Why - To what extent?
Types of Sentences
Abstract Nouns
Subordinating Conjunction
Adverbs
2. Changed
Comparative
Adverbs
Modified
Irregular Verbs
3. Words that take the place of nouns
Pronouns
Subject-Verb Agreement
Verbs
Compound Sentence
4. Subject stays the same; verb must be singular or plural to match the subject
Subject-Verb Agreement
Coordinating Conjunction
Pronouns
Subject
5. Names more than one person - place - thing - or idea
Abstract Nouns
Plural Nouns
Irregular Plural Nouns
Types of Sentences
6. One independent clause
Abstract Nouns
Adverbs
Subject-Verb Agreement
Simple Sentence
7. Specified methods of procedure
Complex Sentence
Conventions/Rules
Irregular Verbs
Types of Sentences
8. Changed
Simple Sentence
Modified
Subordinating Conjunction
Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement
9. Preceding in time or order
Adverbs
Adjectives
Antecedent
Subject
10. A sentence that includes one independent clause and at least one dependent clause.
Simple Sentence
Conventions/Rules
Complex Sentence
Subject
11. The past tense doesn't add an -ed; Usually the past tense and past participle forms are not the same
Adverbs
Irregular Verbs
Adjectives
Irregular Plural Nouns
12. What something is used for
Function
Verb Tenses
Conventions/Rules
Plural Nouns
13. Connects word or word groups that have equal importance in a sentence (and - but - or - for - so - yet - nor)
Abstract Nouns
Antecedent
Coordinating Conjunction
Subject-Verb Agreement
14. Modfies verbs - adjectives - other adverbs - or entire clauses - they often answer of the following questions: How - When - Where - Why - To what extent?
Compound Sentence
Subject
Simple Sentence
Adverbs
15. Word used to modify or describe a noun or pronoun - such as 'happy -' 'sad -' or 'pretty.'
Adjectives
Coordinating Conjunction
Superlative
Verbs
16. A sentence composed of at least two coordinate independent clauses
Conventions/Rules
Irregular Plural Nouns
Compound Sentence
Adverbs
17. Present - past - future - present perfect - past perfect - future perfect
Verbs
Verb Tenses
Subject-Verb Agreement
Antecedent
18. Specified methods of procedure
Pronouns
Subject
Plural Nouns
Conventions/Rules
19. A sentence that includes one independent clause and at least one dependent clause.
Pronouns
Adverbs
Complex Sentence
Coordinating Conjunction
20. The noun or nouns that the pronoun replaces
Subordinating Conjunction
Compound Sentence
Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement
Coordinating Conjunction
21. The comparative form of an adjective
Pronouns
Superlative
Subject
Comparative
22. The subject matter of a conversation or discussion
Irregular Verbs
Subject
Irregular Plural Nouns
Function
23. A conjunction (like 'since' or 'that' or 'who') that introduces a dependent clause
Subordinating Conjunction
Types of Sentences
Complex Sentence
Compound Sentence
24. A sentence composed of at least two coordinate independent clauses
Compound Sentence
Irregular Verbs
Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement
Subject
25. The superlative form of an adjective
Superlative
Nouns
Antecedent
Irregular Verbs
26. A conjunction (like 'since' or 'that' or 'who') that introduces a dependent clause
Simple Sentence
Subordinating Conjunction
Verb Tenses
Subject
27. The noun or nouns that the pronoun replaces
Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement
Subject-Verb Agreement
Function
Types of Sentences
28. Action words
Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement
Nouns
Compound Sentence
Verbs
29. Person - place - or thing
Verbs
Nouns
Coordinating Conjunction
Adjectives
30. Preceding in time or order
Nouns
Coordinating Conjunction
Antecedent
Irregular Plural Nouns
31. Action words
Verbs
Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement
Types of Sentences
Subject-Verb Agreement
32. Names we have for ideas - emotions - qualities - processes - occasions and times. Invisible and tangible. e.g. 'joy' - 'gentleness' - 'wedding'
Verbs
Compound Sentence
Abstract Nouns
Verbs
33. One independent clause
Irregular Plural Nouns
Modified
Pronouns
Simple Sentence
34. Names we have for ideas - emotions - qualities - processes - occasions and times. Invisible and tangible. e.g. 'joy' - 'gentleness' - 'wedding'
Verbs
Abstract Nouns
Superlative
Subject
35. Subject stays the same; verb must be singular or plural to match the subject
Subject-Verb Agreement
Irregular Plural Nouns
Antecedent
Subject
36. Person - place - or thing
Pronouns
Adverbs
Nouns
Adverbs
37. The subject matter of a conversation or discussion
Subject
Irregular Plural Nouns
Abstract Nouns
Plural Nouns
38. The comparative form of an adjective
Comparative
Subject-Verb Agreement
Verbs
Modified
39. The superlative form of an adjective
Subject-Verb Agreement
Comparative
Nouns
Superlative
40. Declarative - Interrogative - and Imperative - Exclamatory
Types of Sentences
Function
Plural Nouns
Modified
41. Declarative - Interrogative - and Imperative - Exclamatory
Types of Sentences
Conventions/Rules
Coordinating Conjunction
Irregular Verbs
42. Words that take the place of nouns
Verbs
Pronouns
Verb Tenses
Subordinating Conjunction
43. What something is used for
Function
Adjectives
Comparative
Abstract Nouns
44. Some nouns have special plural forms they are called irregular plural. singular: man - woman - goose - child - foot - mouse -die - ox/ irregular men - women - geese -children -feet -mice -dice -oxen.
Comparative
Types of Sentences
Irregular Plural Nouns
Function
45. Present - past - future - present perfect - past perfect - future perfect
Modified
Verb Tenses
Irregular Plural Nouns
Plural Nouns
46. Names more than one person - place - thing - or idea
Abstract Nouns
Plural Nouns
Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement
Simple Sentence
47. Connects word or word groups that have equal importance in a sentence (and - but - or - for - so - yet - nor)
Function
Adjectives
Plural Nouns
Coordinating Conjunction
48. The past tense doesn't add an -ed; Usually the past tense and past participle forms are not the same
Types of Sentences
Subordinating Conjunction
Irregular Verbs
Irregular Plural Nouns
49. Word used to modify or describe a noun or pronoun - such as 'happy -' 'sad -' or 'pretty.'
Irregular Verbs
Function
Adjectives
Irregular Plural Nouns
50. Some nouns have special plural forms they are called irregular plural. singular: man - woman - goose - child - foot - mouse -die - ox/ irregular men - women - geese -children -feet -mice -dice -oxen.
Comparative
Irregular Plural Nouns
Abstract Nouns
Irregular Verbs