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Grammar Notes 7 th Grade Standards

Grammar Notes 7 th Grade Standards. Sentence types. Declarative : make a statement The weather is cloudy today. Interrogative : asks a questions Is the weather cloudy today? Exclamatory : expresses with strong emotion. Our game has been cancelled! Imperative : gives a command.

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Grammar Notes 7 th Grade Standards

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  1. Grammar Notes7th Grade Standards

  2. Sentence types • Declarative: make a statement The weather is cloudy today. • Interrogative: asks a questions Is the weather cloudy today? • Exclamatory: expresses with strong emotion. Our game has been cancelled! • Imperative: gives a command. Call the team members.

  3. Participle: A word that looks like action (a verb), but is being used as an adjective. Examples: I have a burning desire to succeed. He was a running superstar. She is a traveling salesperson.

  4. Appositive a phrase that restates, or says with different words, the noun that precedes it. It is set off with commas. Examples: Junior, my favorite uncle, is coming to visit. Our prom king, Homer Simpson, is very popular. We plan to visit our state’s capital, Sacramento, during our vacation.

  5. Infinitive the word “to” plus a verb. Examples: We wantto goto the movies. Sylvia hopesto attendYale University. He ran very fastto jumpthe hurdles.

  6. Phrase: A group of words working together as a single part of speech that do not have both a subject and a verb. Examples: went to the movies. (No subject. Who went?) The best friend in the world (No verb. What about the friend? under the bed (No subject or verb).

  7. Clause: A group of words with both a subject and a verb. Independent Clause: Could stand alone as a complete sentence. Example: Heran fast. Dependant Clause: Could not be its own sentence. Not a complete thought. Example: until heran fast. ©Created by Cathy Shope, EWMS 2006

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