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Active voice

It's a type of sentence or clause in which the subject performs or causes the action expressed by the verb.


Adjective

It's the part of speech that modifies a noun or a pronoun.


Adverb

A word that describes a verb, an adjective, another adverb, or a sentence and that is often used to show time, manner, place, or degree.


Appositive

It's a noun, noun phrase, or noun clause which follows a noun or pronoun and renames or describes the noun or pronoun. They are often set off by commas.


Article

It's a type of adjective which makes a noun definite or indefinite.


B

Business

The work of buying or selling products or services for money.


C

Clause

A part of a sentence that has its own subject and verb.


Comparative

The form of an adjective or adverb involving a comparison of more or less, greater or lesser.


Complement

It's a word that follows a verb and completes the meaning of the sentence or verbal phrase.


Complex sentence

It's a sentence that contains at least one independent clause and one dependent clause.


Compound sentence

It's a sentence that contains at least two independent clauses, often joined by a conjunction.


Conditional

Something that is conditional will only happen if something else happens.


Conjunction

It's the part of speech that serves to connect words, phrases, clauses, or sentences.


Connector

It is a word that is used to join words or sentences.


Contraction

A shortened form of a word or group of words (such as doesn't and won't), with the missing letters usually marked by an apostrophe.


Contrast

A noticeable difference between people or things.



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