Language+Vocabulary

=Language Terms for the AHSGE=

error-the incorrect sentence noun-a person, place or thing; you can draw a picture of most nouns apostrophe(')-used to make a contraction or show ownership; apostrophes DO NOT make words plural. verb-a word that tells what action is being done in the sentence (action verb) or a word that links a noun at the beginning of the sentence with a noun or adjective at the end of the sentence (linking verb) or a word that comes in front of an action verb to help create tense (helping or auxiliary verb) subject-the noun or pronoun that the sentence is about; most of the time the subject is at the beginning of the sentence tense-the time period when something happened shift-a chnge in tense singular-one plural-more than one agreement-the same active voice-the subject does the action passive voice-the subject receives the action participle-a verb form that usually ends in "ing," "ed," or "en"; can be used in the progressive tense or as an adjective modifier-a word or phrase that describes clear-easily understood vivid-most descriptive precise-short and to the point formal language-sentences that DO NOT have slang, contractions, first person, or second person