TSA CBT Top Terms Definitions and
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Clauses - ✔✔grammatical units containing a subject and a verb
Independent Clause - ✔✔expresses the main thought of the sentence and can stand alone
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TSA CBT Top Terms Definitions and
meaning. 100% coverage, rated A+
Clauses - ✔✔grammatical units containing a subject and a verb
Independent Clause - ✔✔expresses the main thought of the sentence and can stand alone
Example of an independent clause - ✔✔She laughed.
Dependent clause - ✔✔expresses an idea that is less important than the idea expressed in the main
clause and cannot stand alone
Example of a dependent clause - ✔✔As she was laughing...
Restrictive phrase - ✔✔provides information that is necessary to identify specifically what is being
described
-not separated from the rest of the sentence by commas
Example of a restrictive phrase - ✔✔The blue house that he built on a hill is quite large
Nonrestrictive phrases - ✔✔provides information that is incidental to the meaning of the sentence
-are separated from the rest of the sentence by commas
Example of a nonrestrictive phrase - ✔✔The blue house, which he built on a hill, is quite large
Verb - ✔✔a word or phrase used to assert an action or state of being
Verb Voice - ✔✔shows whether the subject performs an action (active voice) or receives it (passive
voice)
Active voice example - ✔✔the consultant wrote a proposal
Passive voice example - ✔✔the proposal was written by the consultant
Verb Tense - ✔✔the tense of a verb shows the time of the action of the verb
Present tense - ✔✔represents action that is taking place now
Past tense - ✔✔represents action that took place in past time
Future tense - ✔✔places action in future time
Present perfect tense - ✔✔represents action completed before the present time
Past perfect tense - ✔✔represents action that occurs before another past action
Present tense examples - ✔✔active voice- she takes; she is taking
passive voice- she is taken; she is being taken
Past tense examples - ✔✔active voice- she took; she was taking
passive voice- she was taken; she was being taken
Future tense examples - ✔✔active voice- she will take; she will be taking
passive voice- she will be taken
Present perfect examples - ✔✔active voice- she has taken; she has been taking
passive voice- she has been taken
Past perfect examples - ✔✔active voice- she had taken; she had been taking
passive voice- she had been taken
Future perfect examples - ✔✔active voice- she will have taken
passive voice- she will have been taken; she will have been taking
Verb mood - ✔✔shows whether an action is fact (indicative mood), something other than fact, such as
possibility, wish, or supposition (subjunctive mood), or a command ( imperative mood)
Indicative mood example - ✔✔they are going to the ball game
Subjective mood example - ✔✔I insist that he go to the ball game
Imperative mood example - ✔✔go now!
Transitive verbs - ✔✔require direct objects to complete their meaning
Intransitive verbs - ✔✔do not require direct objects to complete their meaning
Linking verbs - ✔✔express a state of being or existence
never take objects, but, instead, connect the subject to a word or idea in the predicate
Infinitive - ✔✔the form of a verb that expresses action or existence without reference to person,
number, or tense
Gerund - ✔✔the form of a verb ending in -ing that is used as a noun
-verbal noun
Participle - ✔✔a form of the verb used as an adjective
simple participle forms end in -ed or -ing
Noun - ✔✔a word that names a person, place, thing, quality, idea, or action
Common noun - ✔✔identifies one or more of a class of persons, places, things, qualities, ideas, or
actions that are alike
Proper noun - ✔✔identifies a particul
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