GED LANGUAGE ARTS WRITING EXAM QUESTIONS

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GED LANGUAGE ARTS WRITING EXAM QUESTIONS

Qs and Ans - Expert- Explanation - ing score -100 Questions and Answers

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Question 1: Number

Answer:

Change in the form of a noun, adjective,or verb to show if the word is a singular or plural

Question 2: Parallelism

Answer:

the use of a series of words, phrases, or sentences that have similar grammatical form

Question 3: Complex sentence

Answer:

a sentence with one independent clause and at least one dependent clause

Question 4: Subject

Answer:

Part of the sentence that does the action or is spoken about

Question 5: Superlative

Answer:

Refers to the greater degree in the quality or quantity of one item or person with respect to two or more others, largest of the three

Question 6: Relative pronoun

Answer:

That, which, what, who

Question 7: Idiom

Answer:

Group of words that, taken together, differ in meaning from the individual words used separately

Question 8: Possessive

Answer:

serving to express or indicate possession

Question 9: Soliloquy

Answer:

in drama, a character speaks alone on stage to allow his/her thoughts and ideas to be conveyed to the audience

Question 10: Apposition

Answer:

a grammatical relation between a word and a noun phrase that follows EX. My dog, Scout

Question 11: Rhythm

Answer:

In poetry and certain kinds of prose, patterns of stress or accent in the units that make up the verse or sentence

Question 12: Object of a preposition

Answer:

The pronoun follows a preposition such as to, form, for, against, by, between, or about.

Question 13: Syllable

Answer:

Smallest group of sounds, consisting of a vowel and one or more consonants that are pronounced as a unit

Question 14: Agreement

Answer:

Parts of sentence that are alike in gender, number and person

Question 15: Synonym

Answer:

Words that are similar in meaning

Question 16: Compound predicate

Answer:

Two or more predicates usually joined by and or or

Question 17: onomatopoeia

Answer:

using words that imitate the sound they denote - like hiss

Question 18: Run-on sentences

Answer:

A run-on sentence consists of two or more main clauses that are run together without proper punctuation

Question 19: Objective case

Answer:

a pronoun used as a direct object, indirect object, object of the preposition

Question 20: paradox

Answer:

a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.

Question 21: Satire

Answer:

Work that makes fun of a person, an idea, or a social custom or institution by stressing it's foolishness or lack of reasonableness

Question 22: Infinitive

Answer:

a form of a verb that generally appears with the word 'to' and acts as a noun, adjective, or adverb

Question 23: Hyphen

Answer:

Mark (-) used to form a compound adjective, to join certain prefixes to words or to separate words into syllables

Question 24: Antecedent

Answer:

Noun that is replaced with a pronoun

Question 25: Adjective

Answer:

Part of speech that helps describe a noun or pronoun

Question 26: Conjunction

Answer:

Part of speech that connects words, phrases,or clauses

Question 27: Suffix

Answer:

Addition to the end of the word that adds to or changes it's meaning

Question 28: Active verb

Answer:

verb that shows an action performed by the subject of the sentence

Question 29: Rhyme

Answer:

In poetry, agreement in the final sounds of two or more words at the ends of lines