Inc. All rights reserved. Glossary of Terms Adjectives are modifiers. Alliteration can give a pleasing sound to a sentence, as long as it's not overdone, e.g., World Wide Web . . . Clauses are groups of words with a subject and predicate . I like playing Tetris, Subordinate when I have time .
Conjunctions join words, phrases or clauses.
Metaphors suggest comparison between two different things, e.g., Bill Gates has a heart of gold . . . His mind is a sharp razor. The name of a person, place, thing, quality or action. Secretary, desk, computer, Redmond, technology, frustration . Predicates are one of two main components of a sentence.