Unit 3: Conventions, Writing, and Speaking & Listening

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  1. explanatory
    serving or intended to make clear
  2. declarative
    relating to sentences that express simple statements
  3. interrogative
    relating to sentences that ask a question
  4. exclamatory
    (of a sentence) expressing strong emotion
  5. imperative
    relating to verbs that express a command
  6. mood
    verb inflections that express how the action is conceived
  7. indicative
    a mood that represents the act or state as an objective fact
  8. poetry
    literature in metrical form
  9. recitation
    a public instance of repeating something prepared in advance
  10. complement
    a word or phrase used to finish a grammatical construction
  11. predicate
    the constituent of a sentence containing the verb
  12. object
    (grammar) a noun or noun equivalent that is acted upon
  13. direct object
    the object that receives the direct action of the verb
  14. indirect object
    the object that is the recipient or beneficiary of the action of the verb
  15. lyric
    of or relating to poetry that expresses emotion
  16. narrative
    consisting of or characterized by the telling of a story
  17. evaluation
    the act of ascertaining or judging the quality of
  18. case
    nouns or pronouns or adjectives (often marked by inflection) related in some way to other words in a sentence
  19. nominative
    serving as or indicating the subject of a verb and words identified with the subject of a copular verb
  20. objective
    indicating the object of a verb or of certain prepositions
  21. possessive
    serving to express or indicate the act of having
  22. review
    a summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion
  23. critical
    characterized by careful evaluation and judgment
  24. scenario
    an outline or synopsis of a play
  25. cause
    any entity that produces an effect
  26. effect
    a phenomenon that is caused by some previous phenomenon
  27. persuasive
    intended or having the power to induce action or belief
Created on Mon Feb 08 10:45:04 EST 2021 (updated Mon Mar 29 09:13:25 EDT 2021)

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