Essential Grammar Terms for Grade 11

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Concise

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ideas clearly in few words

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Redundant

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repetitive or wordy

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Transition

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or phrase linking ideas smoothly

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Modifier

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or phrase describing or qualifying another word

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Parallelism

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similar grammatical structures for related ideas

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Subject-Verb Agreement

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and verb matching in number (singular/plural)

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Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement

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matches its antecedent in number and gender

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Clause

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of words with subject and verb

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Comma Splice

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independent clauses joined by a comma only

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Modifier Example

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in "She ran quickly"