English 3rd qt

• Past perfect


  Event in the past that took place before another past action or event
• Past perfect progressive


  Denotes an action or event in the past that continue before another past action
• Past perfect tense


  Completed action
• Past perfect progressive tense


  Denotes action that is going on
• Media res


  Middle of the story, occurs continuously without breaks in time or action
• Characters


  • Vividly sketched, focuses on character's personality
• Synopsis


  Selling point for possible supporters or producers, only 250 words
• Modern Filipina is the very first play written in English by Filipinos
• Thomas brought in 600 civilian men and women
• English is the medium of instruction
• Lambanog


  Coconut bud with pulverized mangrove bark
• Adverbial clause


  Modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb
• Adjective clause

  Modifies a noun or pronoun
• Adverb clause


  Introduced by a subordinate conjunction
• Subordinate clause


  Does not have a complete thought
• Adjective clause


  Information about nouns
• Whom


  Used in direct clauses
• Whose


  Possessive form of who
• Why or reason


  Used to explain reason
• Whereby


  Regulation, method, arrangement etc
• Who and whom

  Apply to people
• Which and that


  Used to modify things
• Misplaced modifier


  Modifies the wrong word in a sentence
• Dangling modifier


  Does not to seem to modify any word in the sentence
• Gerunds


  Verb forms used as nouns, ends in -ing
• Gerund phrases


  Gerunds plus objects or modifiers
• Infinitives


  Retain some features of the verb, starts with to
• Participial phrase


  Modified by an adverb or adverb phrase
• • set of combs-


  Jim's gift for Della in the story 'The Gift of Magi'
• • have been seeing-


  They see each other for the first time (present perfect progressive form)
• • has been living-


  She has lived in this neighborhood since birth (present perfect progressive form)
• • has been playing-


  We have played for the school since last year (present perfect tense)
• • had been-


  She had been cooking before Jim came home (past perfect tense)
• • he was rich and always prim proper- why did people want to be in richard cory’s place
• • informative description-


  Seek to present with objective accuracy
• • emotions-


  Persuasion appeals to
• lambanog


  What the Americans gave the name to
• • artistic beauty-


  Appeal to the sense of beauty
• • modern Filipina- very first play written in english by the filipinos
• • she was lonely and feeling homesick- why did the mother in the story home is where want to go home