Basic English Usage Flashcards
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What is Standard English
It’s the ability to communicate with words and an active voice along with body posture, gestures, to communicate clear sentences and knowing the parts of speech. However language is important because this expresses a lot about an individual.
Writing in Complete Sentences
A complete sentence is a subject, verb and complete thought which makes up the group of individual words in any type of sentence. However, English is no speak correctly but mainly toward speaking sentences
Characteristics of a Complete Sentence
Subject, verb, and complete thought
Parts of speech
Is the group of words that make up a perfect sentence and the part of speech which explain the arrangement of each word in a sentence also making speech more cleared
Noun
Pronoun
Verb
Adjective
Advice
What Noun
A person, place or thing
What is possessive Nouns
Represents ownership in something
What is a pronoun?
A pronoun is a word that replace a noun
Personal Pronoun
Is specific person, place or things and their form depends on the noun
Possessive and Contractions
To show ownership a pronoun must have a s at the end of each pronoun along with putting a apostrophe to show ownership
Contractions
Contractions: A contractions shows ownership with apostrophe s added to the pronoun.
What are verbs
A verb is an action word which tells what something is doing and can do
Function of Verbs
Function of a verb indicates what is happening and what happened in the past also what will happen in future. Those verbs are called Past, Present, and Future.
What is the three types of tenses
Past tense,
Present tense,
Future tense.
Regular Verbs
Regular verbs are verbs created with the simple past tense and the past participle this process happens by adding a ed to the base verb. Learning spelling rules for grammar could really help you master learning regular verbs.
Spelling Regular Verb Forms
For spelling rules you just need to add ed or ing to the base verb however once you obtain more practice you will see a great amount of improvement.
The Simple Tenses
The simple present tenses is like the regular present tense and it is something some is doing at that current moment or something happening at that very moment. The simple present tense is also something true.to do a simple present tense word form just add -s or -es if the verbs end in s, sh, ch, x and z.
The Continuous Tenses
Continuous tense shows action continuing in the past, present, or future.
The Perfect Tenses
Indicate action completed before or going on to a specific time. This tense is used to indicate specific time relationships. Perfect tense includes the following : Since, already, yet, up to now, so far and for.
Past perfect
Which indicates action that happened during a specific time in the past.
Future perfect
Which indicates action that will happen in the future of time.
What is an adjective?
An adjective is a word that describes a noun and a pronoun.
Subject-Verb Agreement
Subject-Verb Agreement is like wearing styles that match each other instead of wearing things which don’t match. Subject verb agreement is the opposite of left to right shoes.
Identifying Antecedents
A antecedent is the replacement of a noun of pronouns. You must make the antecedent more cleared so that the antecedent is cleared to read along with the meaning. However, there are two pronoun problems on the language Arts, Writing Test to begin with, practice identifying the antecedents of pronouns in correctly-written sentences.
Agreement in Number
Pronouns and Antecedents must agree in numbers. The pronoun they is used in the sentence below because its antecedent, plants, is plural.
