Basic Grammer Flashcards
What is a Noun?
A noun is a physical object or an abstract idea and can include a person, animal, place, or thing.
What is the Noun in the following sentence?
The car is red.
Car.
What is the Noun in the following sentence?
He opened his book.
Book.
What is the Noun in the following sentence?
The dig jumped onto the bed.
Dog.
What is a Pronoun?
A pronoun replaces a noun or another pronoun in a sentence and can be used instead of a noun to refer to the noun.
What is the Pronoun in the following sentence?
Jack climbed the tree but he fell off it.
He.
The cat lives in my house. It is a tabby.
It.
What is a Article?
An article is a type of determiner that comes before a noun.
What is an example of a article.
The and A.
What is a subject
A subject is the part of the sentence that tells you what the sentence is about. It is the who or what that does the action.
What is the subject in the following sentence?
Tommy jumped off the bed.
Tommy.
What is the subject in the following sentence?
Does Jennifer love him?
Jennifer.
What is a verb?
A verb gives actions, events or states of being to the subject or noun.
What is the Verb in the following sentence?
Michelle walked into the theatre.
Walked.
What is the Verb in the following sentence?
The car jumped off the ledge.
Jumped.
What is an adjective?
An adjective is a word that is used to describe, identify, or quantify a subject and modifies the noun or pronoun.
What is the adjective in the following sentence?
The big bowl is full of bread.
Big.
What is the adjective in the following sentence?
The red brick fell off the table.
Red.
What is an Object?
An object is that which the subject is acting upon.
What is the object in the following sentence?
Athena bought a movie.
Movie.
What is the object in the following sentence?
Henry grew a beard.
Beard.
David flunked the test.
Test.
What is a direct object?
A direct object is a noun phrase that denotes a person or thing as the recipient of the action of a transitive verb.
Subject + Verb = direct object.
What is the direct object in the following sentence?
John ate the bread.
Bread.
What is the direct object in the following sentence?
William pulled the book out of the bag.
Book.
What is the direct object in the following sentence?
Mary tried marshmallows for the first time.
Marshmallows.
