EN 2710 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Big, Bigger, Biggest, Transitive Verb, Personal Pronoun
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Active voice: a feature of transitive verb sentences in which the subject is generally the agent and the direct object is the goal or objective of the action. Voice refers to the relationship of the subject of the verb. Adjectival: any structure, no matter what its form, that function as a modifier of a noun - that is, that function as an adjective normally functions. Adverb: one of the four form classes, whose members act as modifiers of verbs, contributing information of time, place, reason, manner, and the like. Like adjectives, certain adverbs can be qualified (very quickly, rather fast); some can be inflected for comparative and superlative degree (more quickly, fastest); they have characteristic derivational endings such as -ly (quickly), -wise (lengthwise), and -ward (backward). Agent: the initiator of the action in the sentence, the doer of the action. Usually the agent is the subject in an active sentence.
