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Title: AHSGE Test Vocabulary


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AHSGE Test Vocabulary
  • Language

Julie Mullins-Turner
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Vivid Details
  • Details that appeal to the
  • senses and help the reader
  • see, feel, smell, taste, and
  • hear the subject being
  • written about.

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Vivid Verbs
  • Whenever possible, use a verb that is strong
    enough to stand alone without the help of an
    adverb.
  • Avoid overusing the be verbs.
  • Use active rather than passive verbs.
  • Use verbs that show rather than tell.

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Clarity
  • Writing in a manner in which the reader
    understands the basic meaning.

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Verbal
  • A verbal is a form of a verb
  • that works in a sentence as
  • a noun, an adjective, or an
  • adverb.

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Indefinite Pronoun
  • An indefinite pronoun refers
  • to persons, places or things
  • in a more general way.
  • Indefinite pronouns do not
  • have clear antecedents.

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Reflexive Pronoun
  • A reflexive pronoun refers to a
  • noun or another pronoun and
  • indicates that the same person
  • or thing is involved.
  • Example
  • I almost exhausted myself working
  • for her in the campaign.

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Antecedent
  • The word or group of words
  • that a pronoun replaces is
  • called its antecedent.

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Active Voice
  • An action verb is in the
  • active voice when the
  • subject of the sentence
  • performs the action.

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Passive Voice
  • An action verb is in the
  • passive voice when its
  • action is performed on the
  • subject.

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Regular Verbs
  • Most verbs are regular verbs.
  • If the past tense and past
  • participle of a verb both end
  • in ed it is called a regular
  • verb.

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Irregular Verbs
  • An irregular verb is a verb
  • that does not form its past
  • and past participle by
  • adding ed to the basic
  • verb.

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Collective Noun
  • A collective noun names a
  • group of people or things.
  • Examples
  • the class the faculty
  • the team the flock

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Appositive
  • An appositive is a noun or
  • pronoun (sometimes with
  • modifiers) that is placed next
  • to another noun or pronoun to
  • identify it or to give additional
  • information about it.

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Misplaced Participle
  • A misplaced participle
  • modifies the wrong noun or
  • pronoun in a sentence.

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Clichés
  • A cliché is an overused word or phrase that
    springs quickly to mind but just as quickly bores
    the user and audience.
  • Examples
  • as cold as ice
  • a fish out of water

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Correlative Conjunctions
  • Correlative Conjunctions compare or
  • contrast two ideas in a sentence.
  • Correlative conjunctions are used in
  • pairs (either, or neither, nor not
  • only, but also both, and whether, or
  • as, so).

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Jargon
  • Jargon is language used in
  • a certain profession or by a
  • particular group of people.
  • It is usually very technical
  • and not natural at all.

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Redundancy
  • Redundancy occurs when
  • words (or synonyms for
  • words) are repeated
  • unnecessarily to add
  • emphasis or to fill up space.

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Formal Language
  • Most academic writing should
  • meet the standards of formal
  • language. This level of language
  • is characterized by a serious tone,
  • a careful attention to word choice,
  • longer sentences, a strict adherence
  • to traditional conventions and so on.

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Informal Language
  • Informal English is characterized
  • by a personal tone, the
  • occasional use of popular
  • expressions, shorter sentences,
  • the use of contractions and
  • personal references.

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Comma Splice
  • A comma splice is a mistake
  • made when two
  • independent clauses are
  • connected (spliced) with
  • only a comma.

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Parallelism
  • This means that similar ideas are expressed in
    similar form, which makes it easier for the
    reader to recognize the similar ideas you are
    trying to express.

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Transitional Words
  • Transitional words are often
  • used to introduce related
  • topics.
  • Examples
  • First, second, third,
  • to illustrate, for instance, also,
  • in addition

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Sentence Structure
  • Sentences are classified by
  • structure in one of four
  • ways simple, compound,
  • complex, and compound-
  • complex sentences.

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Dangling Modifier
  • A dangling modifier is a
  • phrase or clause that comes
  • at the beginning of a
  • sentence but does not
  • modify (describe) the subject
  • in the sentence.

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Modifiers
  • Modifiers are adjectives.

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Intervening Phrase
  • A phrase that interrupts a
  • sentence.

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Irrelevant Sentences
  • A sentence that does not
  • belong in a paragraph.

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Verb Shifts
  • Shifts in verb tense within a
  • passage.

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Verbiage
  • Wordiness

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Precise
  • Definite exact
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