Chapter 7: Verbal and Written Communications | Crossword
Across
2. | part of a written composition, which consists of a collection of sentences related to one topic |
8. | sentence that contains a subject and a verb, and which expresses a complete thought; independent clause |
9. | a word that modifies or describes a noun or pronoun |
10. | five letters in the English language: a, e, i, o, and u (sometimes y is substituted for i) |
11. | collective term for eight classifications of words that denote each word's function; in English these include noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, conjunction, preposition, and interjection |
12. | the use of an uppercase letter for the first letter of a word, and lowercase for the remaining letters; used for proper nouns |
13. | all letters of the English alphabet excepta, e, i, o, and u |
14. | a word that joins other words, phrases, clauses, or sentences |
Down
1. | the practice or system of using certain conventional marks or characters such as commas, question marks, and periods in writing |
2. | the study of humans' use of space; includes physical territory and personal territory |
3. | the study of how words and their components combine to form sentences |
4. | a word, phrase, or clause that expresses emotion |
5. | a word representing a person, place, or thing |
6. | a word that connects or relates its object to the rest of the sentence |
7. | a shortened form of a word or term; one or more letters are omitted and replaced with an apostrophe to create one word |
10. | any word describing an action or a state of being |