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Must-know grammar concepts

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passive voice
indicating verb subject is the recipient; "The ball was thrown by the boy"
active voice
verb subject is performing the action; "The boy threw the ball"
run-on sentence
written sequence of two or more main clauses not separated grammatically
sentence fragment
clause lacking a necessary element to function as an independent sentence
parallelism
repetition of a syntactic construction in successive sentences for effect
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antecedent
word, phrase, or clause replaced by a pronoun or other substitute later
gerund
the form of a verb when functioning as a noun, ending with -ing
idiom
expression with an unpredictable meaning; "a piece of cake" means "easy"
pronoun-antecedent agreement
a pronoun must agree with its antecedent in gender, number, and person
subject-verb agreement
a verb must agree with its subject in number
dangling modifier
phrase that modifies an unintended element of the sentence
adverb
word that functions as a modifier; usually ends with -ly
pronoun
word that replaces/substitutes nouns and noun phrases; she, they, it
adjective
word with comparative or superlative endings, or that modifies nouns
preposition
used before nouns or pronouns to form phrases; to, with, by, at, as, in
conjunction
connects words, phrases, clauses, or sentences; and, but, because, etc.
article
noun-linked word; identifies rather than describes; as in a, an, the
redundancy
inclusion or repetition of more information than is necessary
superlative
highest degree of comparison of adjectives and adverbs; best, worst
comparative
intermediate comparison of adjectives; better than, worse than, etc.
semi-colon
punctuation mark (;) used to indicate a major division in a sentence
colon
the sign (:) indicates that what follows relates to what precedes
infinitive
verb form that names the action without specifying the subject; "to go"
diction
style of speaking or writing as dependent upon choice of words
double negative
two negative words used in the same clause to express a positive

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