Writing 1031F/G Study Guide - Final Guide: Apposition, Pluperfect, Concision

• School: Western University
• Department: Writing
• Course: Writing 1031F/G
• Professor: Brock Earys

Document Summary

Monosyllabic (one syllable adjectives) inflected degree (small/smaller/smallest) Disyllabic (two syllable adjectives) weak second syllable/ inflected (little, littler, littlest) strong second syllable inflected (childish, more childish, most childish) Infinitive: (cid:449)ith o(cid:396) (cid:449)ithout p(cid:396)e(cid:272)edi(cid:374)g it (cid:449)ith (cid:858)to(cid:859: modal auxiliary expressing probability (shall/should, can/could, will/would, primary auxiliary be, have, do, get. Verbs: transitive verbs must be followed by a direct object; the action of the verb must go across something (ie. flew) Clauses: clauses are phrases, but contain at least a noun acting as a subject, or a verb acting as a predicate. Independent clause groups of words containing both a subject and a predicate: dependent clause, subordinating adverbial conjunction (cid:858)(cid:271)e(cid:272)ause(cid:859, subordinate adverb clause, subordinate noun clause, relative clause. Types of sentences: simple = sentence consisting of one independent clause, compound, complex = sentence consisting of an independent clause and a dependent clause, compound-complex.