| A | B |
| Sequence of Events | The ORDER in which events happen |
| Base Word | A PART of a word, that can be a word all by itself |
| Thesaurus | Resource used to find BETTER words to replace a word |
| Declarative Sentence | Sentence that tells something and ends with a period |
| Interrogative Sentence | Sentence that asks a question |
| Imperative Sentence | Sentence that gives a request or order and usually ends with a period |
| Exclamatory Sentence | Sentence that expresses strong feeling and ends with an exclamation mark! |
| Subject | Who or What the sentence is about |
| Predicate | Tells what the Subject is or does in a sentence |
| Text Organization | Captions, Graphic Aids, Headings, Introductions, etc. and the way they are arranged |
| Guide Words | The words at the top of each dictionary page that help you alphabetize the words on the page |
| Conjunctions | The words 'and', 'or', and 'but', that are used to join words or sentences |
| Compound Sentences | A sentence made by JOINING two sentences with a a comma and conjunction |
| Run-On Sentence | Once sentence runs into another without commas and conjunctions |
| Word Root | A word part that CANNOT be a word all by itself (ex: -rupt, -struct) |
| EXACT nouns | A more specific noun that can take the place of a general noun |