CLEP College Composition
1. Ambiguity: A possible double meaning that may confuse a listener or reader
2. Colloquial: Used in some dictionaries to label words appropriate only in informal speech
3. Consistency: The result of staying within one pattern and avoiding confusing shifts in tense or grammatical perspective
4. Convention: the customary way of doing things; what a reader or listener expects or is used to
5. Economy: The sparing use of words, avoiding unnecessary wordiness or duplication
6. Formal: the kind of English appropriate in serious discussion and writing
7. Grammar: the study of the forms of words and their arrangement in a language
8. Informal: the kind of Standard English we use in casual conversations and personal letters
9. Non-standard: the everyday language of those with little formal education; inappropriate in school, business, or writing
10. Redundancy: unintentional repetition, needless duplication
11. Slang: extremely informal language; often used in a disrespectful manner 12. Standard: the language of our institutions- of
school, church, business, and government
13. Word: parts of speech
14. Phrase: group of related words acting together as one part of speech; not containing both a subject and verb
15. Clause: group of related words containing a subject and a verb
16. Sentence: group of words containing a subject and a verb and expressing a complete thought
17. Paragraph: group of sentences organized around a central or main idea
18. Verb: a word that expresses action or helps to make a statement
19. Subject: a word or words naming person, place, thing, or idea about which something is being said
20. Compound Subject/Compound Verb: Two or more subjects or verbs connected by and or or
21. Direct Object: A noun or pronoun that answers the question whom or what after an action verb. It receives the action of the
verb.
22. Subject Complement/Predicate Nominative: 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)
23. Nomative Pronoun: used as subject or subject complement (I, you, he, she, it, we, they, who, whoever)
24 Objective Pronoun: used as an object of verb or of preposition (me, you, him, her, it, us, them, whom, whomever)
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1. Ambiguity: A possible double meaning that may confuse a listener or reader
2. Colloquial: Used in some dictionaries to label words appropriate only in informal speech
3. Consistency: The result of staying within one pattern and avoiding confusing shifts in tense or grammatical perspective
4. Convention: the customary way of doing things; what a reader or listener expects or is used to
5. Economy: The sparing use of words, avoiding unnecessary wordiness or duplication
6. Formal: the kind of English appropriate in serious discussion and writing
7. Grammar: the study of the forms of words and their arrangement in a language
8. Informal: the kind of Standard English we use in casual conversations and personal letters
9. Non-standard: the everyday language of those with little formal education; inappropriate in school, business, or writing
10. Redundancy: unintentional repetition, needless duplication
11. Slang: extremely informal language; often used in a disrespectful manner 12. Standard: the language of our institutions- of
school, church, business, and government
13. Word: parts of speech
14. Phrase: group of related words acting together as one part of speech; not containing both a subject and verb
15. Clause: group of related words containing a subject and a verb
16. Sentence: group of words containing a subject and a verb and expressing a complete thought
17. Paragraph: group of sentences organized around a central or main idea
18. Verb: a word that expresses action or helps to make a statement
19. Subject: a word or words naming person, place, thing, or idea about which something is being said
20. Compound Subject/Compound Verb: Two or more subjects or verbs connected by and or or
21. Direct Object: A noun or pronoun that answers the question whom or what after an action verb. It receives the action of the
verb.
22. Subject Complement/Predicate Nominative: 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)
23. Nomative Pronoun: used as subject or subject complement (I, you, he, she, it, we, they, who, whoever)
24 Objective Pronoun: used as an object of verb or of preposition (me, you, him, her, it, us, them, whom, whomever)
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