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Terms used in English grammar, writing, and phonics.

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An interrogative sentence makes a query and ends with a question mark. Examples: Is that your cat? What color is your car?

Domain: Language; Catégorie: Grammar

A declarative sentence is a statement and ends in a period. Examples: The cat ran home. The darkening sky meant a storm was coming.

Domain: Language; Catégorie: Grammar

One of two or more words that have the same pronunciation (homophones) and/or the same spelling (homographs), but different meanings. One example would be bow, which can be pronounced one way to ...

Domain: Language; Catégorie: Grammar

An anagram is a word or phrase whose letters can be rearranged to form another word or phrase. For example, in The Harry Potter book series the name "Tom Marvalo Riddle" is an anagram whose letters ...

Domain: Language; Catégorie: General language

An adverb is a word that modifies a verb, adjective, another adverb or an entire phrase. In the phrase "John opened the door very slowly," very is an adverb modifying the adverb slowly, which in ...

Domain: Language; Catégorie: Grammar Collected Term

An adjective is a word that describes or modifies a noun. Common adjectives indicate color, size, or other characteristics such as character traits. Examples of adjectives include: red, blue, tall, ...

Domain: Language; Catégorie: Grammar Collected Term

A verb is a word that indicates action or a state of being. Examples of verbs indicating action include, for example: run, jump, think, drove, talked. States of being are indicated by "be" verbs ...

Domain: Language; Catégorie: Grammar

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