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Sentence Skills, Form A, 7/e
John Langan, Atlantic Cape Community College
Dictionary Use

Key Terms


adverbs  words that describe verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs. Ex.: I walked quickly to the store.
etymology  The origin and historical development of a word.
irregular verb  a verb that has an irregular form in the past tense and past participle. Ex.: choose, chose, chosen
principal parts of verbs  the four parts of every verb: present, past, past participle, and present participle
syllabication  The division of a word into syllables.
synonym  A word that is close in meaning to another word.
the schwa  A symbol like an upside-down e, standing for the unacented sound in such words as ago, item, easily, gallop, and circus.








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