Erin Epperly November 5th, 2012 6th hour Grammatical Terms

Word 1. Antecedent Denition The word, phrase, or cause that is referred to by a pronoun or relative adverb A group of words containing a subject and a predicate and forming part of a compound or complex sentence.
1.) The artful omission of a word implied by a previous clause.

Example This is the house that Jack built. (in which house is the antecedent for this) A group of words containing a subject and a predicate... is a clause from the preceding denition.
1.) The American soldiers killed eight civilians, and the French eight. (artfully omitted the words soldiers after French and civilians after eight) 2.) I know that love is just a shout into the void... and I know the sun will swallow the only earth well ever have, and I am in love with you. (Quoted from John Greens book The Fault in Our Stars)

2. Clause

3. Ellipsis

2.) A punctuation mark indicated by three periods to indicate material missing from a quotation.

4. Imperative

A mood that expresses an intention to inuence the listeners behavior. To qualify or limit the meaning of. Repetition of the same pattern of words or phrases within a sentence or passage to show that two or more ideas have the same level of importance. A sentence in which the main clause or its predicate is withheld until the end

Get the Tessaract so Loki doesnt destroy the planet. Now. summer modies day in the phrase a summer day Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears; / I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.

5. Modify 6. Parallel Structure

7. Periodic Sentence

Despite winds and nearly impenetrable ground fog, the plane landed safely.