2nd Achievement Test English

• Subject - The word or group of words being talked about in a sentence
• Main rule: If the subject of the sentence is singular, the verb should also be singular
• A phrase or clause between subject and verb does not change the number of the subject
• Inference - A conclusion or an opinion that is formed based on known facts or pieces of evidence
• Prepositions - Words that show how a noun or a pronoun is related to another word in a sentence
• Description - A strategy where you use specific details to make the readers picture or "see" a person, place, object, event, etc.
• Conjunction - A word that connects words or a group of words
• Coordinating Conjunctions - Join equal structures
• For, and, nor, but, or, yet, so - Coordinating conjunctions
• Compare-and-contrast - A structure or pattern of text organization where both the similarities and differences of two or more things are explored
• Subordinating conjunction - Makes one clause dependent of the other clause
• Phrase - A group of words that function as a single part of speech
• Noun phrase - Composed of a noun and a modifier
• Prepositional phrase - Composed of a preposition and a noun or a pronoun
• Verb phrase - Composed of a main verb and at least one helping verb
• Appositive phrase - Renames a word that immediately comes before it