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4. A word that names a person, place or thing.

5. Noun 100

6. Tells who or what the sentence is about.

7. Subject 200

8. A sentence that has two or more simple sentences joined together.

9. Compound Sentence 300

10. The step in the writing process where you fix misspelled words, sentence problems, and address any grammatical problems.

11. Edit 400

12. The sentence in the beginning of an essay that tells what the essay is about.

13. Thesis Statement 500

14. A word that expresses an action, a condition, or a state of being.

15. Verb 100

16. The step in the writing process in which you begin thinking, writing down ideas, and placing them in order.

17. Pre-write 200

18. The sentence in a paragraph that tells what the paragraph is about.

19. Topic Sentence 300

20. A verb that ends in “ing” and is being used as a noun.

21. Gerund 400

22. The step in the writing process where you create your final draft.

23. Publish 500

24. A word that modifies a noun or pronoun. It tells which one, what kind, or how many.

25. Adjective 100

26. Helps the main verb make a statement or express action.

27. Helping Verb 200

28. The step in the writing process where you begin to write the actual paper.

29. Draft 300

30. A group of words that begins with a preposition and ends with its object.

31. Prepositional Phrase 400

32. The noun or other pronoun that the pronoun is standing in for.

33. Antecedent 500

34. A word that modifies a verb, adjective, or other adverb. It tells how, when, where, and to what extent

35. Adverb 100

36. Words or groups of words that help a paper move from one idea to another and shows the relationship between those points.

37. Transition 200

38. The order in which things happened based on time.

39. Chronological Order 300

40. A clause that can stand alone as a sentence.

41. Independent Clause 400

42. A word that sounds the same but has a different meaning and/or spelling.

43. Homophone 500

44. A word that is used to take the place of a noun or another pronoun.

45. Pronoun 100

46. Tells something about the subject or what the subject does.

47. Predicate 200

48. The step in the writing process where you add and delete information and rearrange sentences as needed.

49. Revise 300

50. A word that connects two sentences together but also carries the characteristics of an adverb.

51. Conjunctive Adverb 400

52. The variations in a language that can change based on different regions or social classes.

53. Dialect 500

54. A word that relates its object to some other word in the sentence.

55. Preposition 100

56. A word or pair of words that connect other words or groups of words together.

57. Conjunction 200

58. A clause that can not stand as a sentence alone.

59. Subordinate/Dependant Clause 300

60. A word or phrase used to show strong feeling or emotion.

61. Interjection 400

62. A sentence that contains an independent clause and one or more subordinate clauses.

63. Complex Sentence 500