8 parts of speech

Question 1

singular pronouns

Subjective (what is another name?)
* first person
* second person
* third person

Objective
* first person
* second person
* third person

Answer 1

• nominative

Subjective
* I
* you
* he, she, it

Objective
* me
* you
* him, her, it

Question 2

plural pronouns

Subjective (what is another name?)
* first person
* second person
* third person

Objective
* first person
* second person
* third person

Answer 2

• nominative

Subjective
* we
* you
* they

Objective
* us
* you
* them

Question 3

Adjectives

• what is their purpose?
• what are the 3 degrees of adjectives? What other part of speech has these 3 degrees?

Answer 3

• to describe a noun/ pronoun

3 degrees
* positive- normal form
* comparative - compare 2 things (more, -er)
* superlative - compare more than 2 things (most, -est)

Question 4

verbs

• what do they do?
• what are some examples of linking verbs?

Answer 4

• state an action or state of being

Linking verbs
* common: is, am, are, have been, was, were, being (then after is commonly an -ing verb)
* 5 senses (look, smell, taste, sound, feel)
* state of being: appear, seems, become, grow, turn, prove, remain

Question 5

adverbs

• what do they do?
• 3 group examples

Answer 5

• describe a verb, another adverb, or adjective

3 group examples - answer the questions:
* How?- end in -ly
* When? yesterday, daily, soon, often, always
* Where? here, inside
* to what extent? quite, still

“not” and “never” are also adverbs.

Question 6

voice

Passive vs. Active voice

Answer 6

• passive: subject is recieving the action (often times sentence has a preposition)
• active: subject is doing the action

Question 7

verb tenses

look at trans document

Question 8

preposition

• what are some example ones?
• prepositional phrase contains ____ of the preposition at the end?

Answer 8

• against, among, across, beyond, near, of, in, at, to, over, with, since, before, between
• OBJECT!!!!!!!! (that is a noun or pronoun)

Question 9

conjunction

coordinating vs correlative

Answer 9

• coordinating = FANBOYS
• correlative = either…. or; neither….. nor, not only…. but always

Question 10

conjunctions

• What are subordinating conjunctions?
• What are some examples?

Answer 10

• joins an independent and dependent clause
• while, when, because

Question 11

interjection

what are they?

Answer 11

express an emotion

Question 12

sentence

in trans doc

Question 13

noun

in trans doc

Question 14

pronoun

in trans doc

Question 15

is ‘who’ a pronoun?

Answer 15

YES