CLEP College Composition Modular

syntax - how words are put together coordination - how you connect ideas together subordination - how you make one idea subordinate to another idea comma splice - when two complete sentences are tied together with a comma sentence fragment - an incomplete sentence Modifier - a descriptive phrase or word run-on senetence - two sentences put together without appropriate punctuation simple sentence - one independent clause compound sentence - two or more independent clauses with out a dependent clause subject-verb agreement - when the subject and verb of a sentence don't go together antecedents - going before , preceding compound complex senetence - two or more independent clauses with a dependent clause pronoun-antecedent agreement - when the pronoun doesn't match its antecedents idiom - a phrase without a literal meaning noun - person, place or thing verb - an action adjective - modifies a noun nominative case - I, you, she, he, we, they possessive case - my, mine, your, yours, his, her, hers, its, our, ours,their, theirs relative pronouns - who, that, which, what indefinite pronouns - all, any, both, each, either, everybody, none, one, several, some, someone objective case - me, you, her, him. us, the compound personal pronouns - myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself, ourselves, yourselves, themselves interrogative pronouns - who, which, what