AP English Language and Composition Exam: Writing, Grammar, and Word Choice, List 2

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words only definitions & notes
  1. imperative
    requiring attention or action
  2. interrogative
    relating to sentences that ask a question
  3. jargon
    technical terminology characteristic of a particular subject
  4. modifier
    a content word that qualifies the meaning of a noun or verb
  5. parallelism
    similarity by virtue of corresponding
  6. parenthetical
    qualifying or explaining
  7. participle
    a form of the verb used as an adjective
  8. passive voice
    when the subject of a sentence is a recipient of the action
  9. preposition
    a word before a noun or pronoun connecting to another word
  10. pronoun
    a function word that is used in place of a noun
  11. syntax
    the study of the rules for forming admissible sentences
  12. transition
    the act of passing from one state or place to the next
  13. usage
    the act of employing
  14. vernacular
    the everyday speech of the people
Created on Wed Jun 04 12:35:06 EDT 2025

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