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Building Blocks of Language 1 Flashcards

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What are the 6 classifications of nouns?

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Common nouns
Proper nouns
Singular nouns
Plural nouns
Singular possessive
Plural possessive
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What are the eight parts of speech?

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Noun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun, preposition, conjunction, and interjection

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What is a noun?

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Describes a person, place, thing, or state of being

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Noun classifications:

Common nouns

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Most nouns are common nouns and are capitalized only when the begin a sentence. Can be combined with function words such as: the, a, this, every

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Noun classifications:

Proper nouns

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These nouns are always capitalized. Names, days if the week, titles, months, institutions, holidays, etc.

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Noun classifications:

Singular nouns

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Names one person, place, or thing

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Noun classifications:

Plural nouns

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Names more than one person, place or thing. Generally adding -s will pluralize a noun, but students should be familiar with common types of irregular plurals

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Noun classifications:

Singular possessive

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Usually nouns become possessive by adding an apostrophe and the letter -s

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Noun classifications:

Plural possessive

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Possessive form of plural nouns.

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What are the two main categories of verbs?

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Action verbs and linking verbs

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What are the three basic tenses if verbs?

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Present, past, and future

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What is the perfect form of a verb?

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Indicates an action during an indefinite time period.

Ex. I have looked at the picture.

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What is the progressive form of a verb?

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Indicates ongoing action

Ex. I am looking at the picture.

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What is perfect progressive form of a verb?

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Indicates an ongoing action that will be completed at some definite time.

Ex. I have been looking at the picture.

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What is a regular verb?

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Those verbs whose past tense and past participles are formed by adding a -d or an -ed to the end. Sometimes the last consonant must be doubled

Ex. Bill–> billed
Plan–> planned

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What is an irregular verb?

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These verbs turn into very different words when conjugated. There are over 250 of them.

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What is an adjective?

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Gives more information about nouns. Generally answers questions like which? What kind? How many?

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What can be used to make comparative or superlative statements?

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Adjectives in conjunction with -er and more for comparative; -est and most for superlative

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What are adverbs?

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Adverbs modify verbs and answer questions like how? When? Where?

Ex. He fought swiftly and bravely.

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What are interrogative adverbs?

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They introduce questions. What? How? Where? Etc

Ex. What time does the show start?

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What is a pronoun?

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The take the place of a noun.

Ex. She, it, they, ours

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What are the five types of pronouns?

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Nominative: SHE went to the store. 
Objective: John drove HIM home. 
Reflexive: Lucy HERSELF made it. 
Possessive: Is the hat YOURS?
Relative: This is the car WHICH I bought yesterday.
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What is a nominative pronoun?

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Used as subject of a verb or a sentence.

Ex. HE made lunch.

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What is an objective pronoun?

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Used as the object of a verb, sentence, or preposition

John asked HIM to go to the party.

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What is a reflexive pronoun?

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Used to direct action back to object.

I MYSELF will cut the cake.

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What is a possessive pronoun?

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Used to define possession of an object, person, or concept

Mine, yours, hers, his, its, ours, theirs

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What is a relative pronoun?

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Used to link one phrase or clause to another phrase or clause.

Who, whom, that, which, whoever, whomever, whichever

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What is a preposition?

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Introduces a noun, pronoun, phrase, or clause functioning in the sentence as a noun. The word or phrase the preposition introduces is its object.

Ex. We were UNDER the bridge.

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What is a prepositional phrase?

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They include the preposition and the object of the preposition as well as an modifiers to either. Usually tell when and where.

Ex. Meet me (at the bridge)(on lake pleasent)(in twenty minutes.)

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What is a conjunction?

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They link words, phrases, and clauses in a sentence. Three types are subordinating, coordinating, and correlative.

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Coordinating conjunction

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Joins two independent clauses and are known as the FANBOYS: for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so

I was hungry, SO I ate a taco.

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Subordinating conjunction

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Used at the beginning of a dependent clause to establish the relationship between the dependent clause and the rest of the sentence

We bought an umbrella because it was storming.

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Correlative conjunction

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Pairs words used to join various sentence elements that should be treated as grammatically equal: both/and, either/or, boy only/but also

It was NEITHER sunny NOR warm.

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Phrase

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A group of words that does not have either a subject or a verb and does not make sense by itself

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Independent clause

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Had a subject and a predicate, and can stand alone as a complete sentence

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Dependent clause

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Has a subject and a predicate but depends on an independent clause to be complete. They are introduced by subordinating conjunctions such as after, although, because, before, if, though, unless, until, when, etc

He did’t eat the taco although he knew it was delicious.

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Interjections

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Exclamatory phrases used to convey emotion.

Wow! That was some weather.

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If a word has a plural form and can combine with a determiner such as “these”, what part of speech is it?

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Noun

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When a word answers questions such as Which? What kind? Or How many?, what part of speech is it?

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Adjective

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Adverbs modify verbs, adjectives, and __________?

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Adverbs

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When are are the cardinal directions like capitalized?

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When they indicate a region such as “the West”. Not capitalized if they are used to indicate bearing. He flew south.

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