el 101

• Adjective


  Words that describe the qualities or states of nouns
• Types of adjectives


  • Descriptive
  • Quantitative
  • Demonstrative
  • Possessive
  • Interrogative
  • Distributive
• Adverb


  Word that can modify or describe a verb, adjective, another adverb, or entire sentence
• Adverb


  (how something happens)
• Preposition


  Links a noun to another to another word
• Prepositions


  • to
  • at
  • after
  • on
  • but
• Conjunction


  Joins clauses or sentences or words
• Conjunctions


  • and
  • but
  • when
• Interjection


  Short exclamation, sometimes inserted into a sentence
• Interjections


  • Oh!
  • hi!
  • ouch!
• Idiom


  Certain expressions and word combinations in a language
• Pronoun Number


  Refers to a pronoun as being singular or plural
• Coordination


  An independent clause has a subject and a verb and presents a complete thought
• Faulty Parallelism


  Occurs when elements in a sentence that should be parallel in meaning or structure are not
• Run-on Sentence


  Where two independent clauses are incorrectly joined without proper punctuation or conjunctions
• Comma Splice


  Occurs when two independent clauses are joined together with only a comma, without a coordinating conjunction
• Redundancy


  Duplication of words, phrases, sentence, ideas and information