Basic English Grammar Flashcards
What is the defenition of a Noun?
A word used to identify any class of People, Places, Things, or Concepts.
Or used to name a particular one of the abovementioned.
Give at least 3 Examples of a Noun.
Table, India, George, My Mom, Love, Deception, Forest, Bedroom, Husbands.
What is the Definition of a Pronoun?
A Pronoun is a replacement word for a noun.
It is a word that can function as a noun phrase used by itself, and that refers to the Participants in the discourse, or to someone or something mentioned elsewhere in the discourse.
(Discourse = Written or spoken about a topic.)
Give at least 3 examples of a Pronoun.
I, You, She, It, Himself, Themselves, Us, Theirs, That, Which, Who, It.
A word used to identify any class of People, Places, Things, or Concepts;
Or to name a particular one of the abovementioned.
What is it called?
A Noun
A replacement word for a noun.
A word that can function as a noun phrase used by itself, and that refers to the Participants in the discourse, or to someone or something mentioned elsewhere in the discourse.
(Discourse = Written or spoken about a topic.)
What is it called?
A Pronoun.
What is the defenition of an Adjective?
It describes things.
It is a word that names an attribute of a noun.
Name at least 3 Adjectives.
Sweet, Blue, Wet, Evil, Hot, Ambitious, Cool, Rough, Sexy, Cruel.
What is the defenition of a Verb?
A word that describes an Action, State or Occurrence.
And that forms the main part of the predicate of a sentence.
(Predicate = Stating something about a subject, containing a Verb.)
Name at least 3 Verbs.
Sing, Run, Agree, Believe, Love, Want, Take, See.
Andything you can add the word “To” in front of.
A.i. “To Do”.
What is the defenition of a Phrasal Verb?
A group of words that functions as a Verb, and is made up of a Verb + a Preposition, and Adverb, or both.
Name at least 3 Phrasal Verbs.
Bear With, Stand Up, Sit Down, Be Patient, On Monday, Ask Around, Back (somebody) Up, Break (something) Down, Bring Up, Call (something) Off.
What is the defenition of an Adverb?
It is words that describe an Adjective, Another Verb, or a Sentence.
Essentially it is Verbs that modify other Verbs.
An Add-On descriptor.
Name at least 3 Adverbs.
Sings Loudly = Sings is the Verb, Loudly is the Adverb.
Falls Hard = Falls is the Verb, Hard is the Adverb.
Usually, Painfully, Hillariously.
Essentially any Verb that comes attached to another Verb and describes it.
Falls Hard, Stomps Loudly, Grins Evilly, Smirks Slyly, More Intresting.
What is the definition of a Preposition?
Where or When something is, in relation to something else.
A word governing, and usually preceding, a Noun or Pronoun, and expressing a relation to another Word, or Element in the Clause.
Clause = A unit of grammatical organization next below the sentence min rank and in traditional grammar said to consist of a subject andpredicate. (A sentence)
Name at least 3 examples of a Preposition.
Arrived after dinner.
Is on the platform
What did you use it for?
On the table.
Beside the wall.
In, at, on, to, by, with, next to, instead of.
What is the definition a Definite Article?
It is used before a Noun to indicate the Identity of the Noun is Known to the Reader/Listener.
What is the defenition of an Indefinite Article?
It is used before a Noun to indicate the Identity of the Noun is general, or not known to the Reader/Listener.
Name two examples of a definite article.
The, That, This here.
Name two examples of a indefinite article.
A, an.
What Are Consonants? Name 5.
A Consonant is any letter that is not a Vowel.
B, C, D, F, G, H, J, K, L, M, N, P, Q, R, S, T, V, W, X, Y, Z.
Name the 5 Vowels.
The alphabet is made up of 26 letters,5 of which are vowels.
A, E, I, O, U.
The rest of are consonants.
