Standards Glossary 1-8

Front

Refers to the state of the action of a verb (whether it is ongoing or complete)

Back

Aspect

Front

Attribution

Back

Refers to crediting the speaker or source of a line of dialogue or exact words. When incorporating dialogue (a narrative technique), attribution would be detailing the speakers (who said what). When incorporating quotations, attribution would be detailing the source of the information, which may or may not include a parenthetical citation.

Front

Conditional mood

Back

It is used to express a condition dependent on whether something else occurs (helping verb +main verb construction).

Front

Occurs when two ideas are equally weighted in a sentence.

Back

Congruence of ideas

Front

Inflectional endings

Back

Inflectional endings

Word parts added to the end of a root or base word that changes the tense or number (e.g., -s, -ed, -ing).

Front

Largely used for casual communications with friends or family members (e.g., talking with friends, texting, or messaging). Informal language tends to use first or second person pronouns; it may also use contractions or slang.

Back

Informal language

Front

Nonessential elements (words, phrases, and/or clauses)

Back

Provide information or clarification that is not essential for the sentence to retain meaning; these nonessential elements may be in the form of words, phrases, and/or clauses. If these nonessential elements are removed from or relocated in a sentence, the meaning of the sentence will not change. These elements should be set off with commas before and after.

Front

Parallel structure:

Back

The art of balancing words, phrases, or clauses with the same grammatical structure.