CLEP College Composition Ambiguity - correct answer -A possible double meaning that may confuse a listener or reader Colloquial - correct answer -Used in some dictionaries to label words appropriate only in informal speech Consistency - correct answer -The result of staying within one pattern and avoiding confusing shifts in tense or grammatical perspective Convention - correct answer -the customary way of doing things; what a reader or listener expects or is used to Economy - correct answer -The sparing use of words, avoiding unnecessary wordiness or duplication Formal - correct answer -the kind of English appropriate in serious discussion and writing Grammar - correct answer -the study of the forms of words and their arrangement in a language Informal - correct answer -the kind of Standard English we use in casual conversations and personal letters Non-standard - correct answer -the everyday language of those with little formal education; inappropriate in school, business, or writing Redundancy - correct answer -unintentional repetition, needless duplication Slang - correct answer -extremely informal language; often used in a disrespectful manner 1 / 2
Standard - correct answer -the language of our institutions- of school, church, business, and government Word - correct answer -parts of speech Phrase - correct answer -group of related words acting together as one part of speech; not containing both a subject and verb Clause - correct answer -group of related words containing a subject and a verb Sentence - correct answer -group of words containing a subject and a verb and expressing a complete thought Paragraph - correct answer -group of sentences organized around a central or main idea Verb - correct answer -a word that expresses action or helps to make a statement Subject - correct answer -a word or words naming person, place, thing, or idea about which something is being said Compound Subject/Compound Verb - correct answer -Two or more subjects or verbs connected by and or or Direct Object - correct answer -A noun or pronoun that answers the question whom or what after an action verb. It receives the action of the verb.Subject Complement/Predicate Nominative - correct answer -A noun or pronoun (or adjective) which follows a be or linking verb and renames or describes the subject. (Think of a be or linking verb as an = sign) Nomative Pronoun - correct answer -used as subject or subject complement (I, you, he, she, it, we, they, who, whoever)
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