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Vocabulary and Notes

• Every time we have a grammar lesson you are expected to take notes.
• Since you will not be able to take the textbook home, your notes will help you with completing your homework and with studying for tests.
• You need to write down the vocabulary and any notes on the powerpoint.
• I may also write notes on the board which you will need to write down too.

• Vocab:
• Adapt means to adjust, accommodate, or modify to fit.
• Adept means expert or proficient.
• Adopt means to embrace, espouse, or take by choice.

• A sentence is a group of words that expresses a complete thought.
• A capital letter begins each sentence.
• 4 types of sentences:
• Declarative: makes a statement and ends with a period.
• Interrogative: asks a question and ends with a question mark.
• Imperative: expresses a command or a request and ends with a period.
• Exclamatory: shows excitement or strong feeling and ends with an !.

• Vocab:
• The Greek prefix macro- means large or long.
• Macrocosm: the entire world or the universe, or a system that contains subsystems.
• Macrofossil: a fossil large enough to see with the naked eye
• Macron: the symbol placed over a vowel to indicate a long vowel sound

• A sentence has two main parts: the subject and the predicate.
• Subject: the part that tells who or what the sentence is about.
• Predicate: the part that tells something about the subject.
• The complete subject or predicate may consist of a single word or of many words.
• A subject or predicate consisting of many words always has an essential part that we call the simple subject or simple predicate.

• The main word or words in a sentence that tell who or what is doing or being something
• Understood subject: in an imperative sentence, the subject “you” is understood

• The verb
• A verb expresses action or being
• If the verb contains more than one word we call this the verb phrase.
• Split predicate: in interrogative sentences, we usually find parts of the predicate split by the subject

• Vocab:
• Human: an adjective, means characteristic of man
• Humane: an adjective, means kind or compassionate

• Complete sentence: expresses a complete thought, has both a subject and predicate
• Sentence fragments: a piece of a sentence that lacks a subject or a verb or both
• Run-on sentences: two complete thoughts, written or spoken as one sentence without proper punctuation or connecting words