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nominative

Serve as the subject of the sentence

predicative nominative

follows a linking verb and defines or renames the subject

objective

functions as an object in the sentence (direct object, indirect object, and object of the preposition)

possessive

Shows ownership

voice

a form of a verb that indicates whether the subject of the verb performs or receive the action

active voice

used to show that the subject of the sentence is performing or causing the action

passive voice

Is used when the subject is the recipient of the action

run-on sentence

Are sentences that should be separated, but they are joined anyway without proper punctuation

comma spliced

Are sentences that should be separated, but they are joined with a comma

fragments

• Are incomplete sentences

• they may lack a verb, a subject, or both

redundancy

The state of being not or no longer needed or useful

parallelism

Is the repetition of grammatical elements

modifiers

Describes, clarifies, or gives more detail about a concept

dangling modifiers

Occurs when the intended subject of the modifier is missing from the sentence, and instead another subject appears in its place

misplaced modifiers

Is a modifier that is placed too far from the word or word it modifies.

descriptive writing

This essay creates an image of a person, place, thing, or event

narrative writing

• This essay tells a story

• It contains elements that can be found in a short story

persuasive writing

• This essay tries to convince a reader to do something or to believe what you believe

• It takes a position for or against something

thesis statement

• one sentence at the end of your introduction that states your opinion

• needs to be strong.

redundancy

The use of words or data that could be omitted without loss of meaning or function; repetition or superfluity of information

parallelism

More likely, it refers to using similar words, clauses, phrases, sentence structure, or other grammatical elements to emphasize similar ideas in a sentence

misplaced modifiers

make the sentence awkward and sometimes unintentionally humorous.

descriptive writing

particularly uses adjectives to stimulate the five senses

persuasive writing

takes a position for or against something