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AHSGE Test Vocabulary
LanguageMrs. Julie Turner
School Improvement SpecialistDothan City Schools
Dr. Patrick CainSEHS Assistant PrincipalElmore County Schools
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Vivid Details
Details that appeal to the
senses and help the reader
see, feel, smell, taste, and
hear the subject being written about.
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Vivid Verbs Whenever possible, use a verb
that is strong enough to stand alone without the help of an adverb.
Avoid overusing the “be” verbs.
Use active rather than passive verbs.
Use verbs that show rather than tell.
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Clarity
Writing in a manner in which
the reader understands the basic meaning.
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Verbal
A verbal is a form of a verb
that works in a sentence as
a noun, an adjective, or an
adverb.
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Indefinite PronounAn indefinite pronoun refersto persons, places or thingsin a more general way.
Indefinite pronouns do not have clear antecedents.
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Reflexive PronounA reflexive pronoun refers to anoun or another pronoun and indicates that the same person
or thing is involved.Example:
I almost exhausted myself working
for her in the campaign.
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Antecedent
The word or group of wordsthat a pronoun replaces is
called its antecedent.
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Active Voice
An action verb is in the active voice when the subject of the sentence
performs the action.
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Passive Voice
An action verb is in thepassive voice when its
action is performed on the subject.
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Regular Verbs
Most verbs are regular verbs.If the past tense and past
participle of a verb both end in –ed it is called a regular
verb.
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Irregular Verbs
An irregular verb is a verb that does not form its past
and past participle by adding –ed to the basic
verb.
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Collective Noun
A collective noun names a
group of people or things.
Examples:the class the faculty
the team the flock
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AppositiveAn appositive is a noun or pronoun (sometimes with
modifiers) that is placed next to another noun or pronoun to identify it or to give additional
information about it.
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Misplaced Participle
A misplaced participle modifies the wrong noun or
pronoun in a sentence.
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Clichés A cliché is an overused word or phrase that springs quickly
to mind but just as quickly bores the user and audience.
Examples:as cold as ice
a fish out of water
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Correlative Conjunctions
Correlative Conjunctions compare or
contrast two ideas in a sentence.
Correlative conjunctions are used in
pairs (either, or; neither, nor; not
only, but also; both, and; whether, or;
as, so).
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Jargon
Jargon is language used in a certain profession or by a particular group of people. It is usually very technical
and not natural at all.
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Redundancy
Redundancy occurs when words (or synonyms for
words) are repeated unnecessarily to add
emphasis or to fill up space.
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Formal LanguageMost academic writing shouldmeet the standards of formal
language. This level of language is characterized by a serious tone,a careful attention to word choice,
longer sentences, a strict adherence
to traditional conventions and so on.
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Informal Language
Informal English is characterized
by a personal tone, the occasional use of popular
expressions, shorter sentences,
the use of contractions and personal references.
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Comma Splice
A comma splice is a mistakemade when two
independent clauses are connected (spliced) with
only a comma.
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Parallelism
This means that similar ideas are expressed in similar
form, which makes it easier for the reader to recognize the similar ideas you are
trying to express.
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Transitional WordsTransitional words are often
used to introduce related topics.
Examples:First, second, third,
to illustrate, for instance, also,
in addition
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Sentence Structure
Sentences are classified by structure in one of four
ways: simple, compound,complex, and compound-
complex sentences.
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Dangling ModifierA dangling modifier is a
phrase or clause that comesat the beginning of a
sentence but does not modify (describe) the subject
in the sentence.
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Modifiers
Modifiers are adjectives.
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Intervening Phrase
A phrase that interrupts a sentence.
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Irrelevant Sentences
A sentence that does not
belong in a paragraph.
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Verb Shifts
Shifts in verb tense within a
passage.
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Verbiage
Wordiness
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Precise
Definite; exact