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