Language and Grammar Terms

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A book that lists words with their synonyms grouped together.

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Thesaurus

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Two words that are spelled and pronounced the same but have different meanings.

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Homonyms

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The feeling associated with a word that goes beyond its literal dictionary definition.

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Connotation

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Something that is vague or unclear and therefore can have more than one meaning.

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Ambiguous

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A sentence that gives a command and uses the implied pronoun "you."

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Imperative sentences

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A sentence that asks a question.

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Interrogative sentence

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Two words reduced to one through use of the apostrophe, i.e. can't, it's, we've, etc.

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Contraction

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Words that tell the relationship between a noun (the object of the preposition) and another word in the sentence.

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Preposition

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A group of words beginning with a preposition and ending with the object of that preposition.

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Prepositional phrase

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Words that modify verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs.

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Adverbs