Building With Diligence (Book 4 Review)

Question 1

What is a sentence?

Answer 1

A sentence is a group of words that expresses a complete thought.

Question 2

What are the two parts of every sentence?

Answer 2

The two parts of every sentence are the subject and the predicate.

Question 3

What is a subject?

Answer 3

The subject tells who or what the sentence is about.

Question 4

What is a predicate?

Answer 4

The predicate tells what the subject is or does.

Question 5

What is the simple subject?

Answer 5

The simple subject is the principal word the sentence is about.
Ex. The best class in school in grammar.

Question 6

What is the complete subject?

Answer 6

The complete subject is the simple subject with all its modifiers.
**Ex. The best class in school** is grammar.

Question 7

What is the simple predicate?

Answer 7

The simple predicate is the verb, including helping verbs.
Ex. John is learning Latin in school.

Question 8

What is the complete predicate?

Answer 8

The complete predicate is the verb with all its modifiers.
Ex. John is learning Latin in school.

Question 9

What is the best way to find the subject of a sentence?

Answer 9

Locate the verb, and then ask the question, “Who?” or “What?”

Question 10

What is a verb phrase? Give examples.

Answer 10

A verb phrase is made up of a main verb and one or more helping verbs.

Ex. I have been walking for an hour.
I should have walked yesterday.

Question 11

Give all forms of the to be verb.

Answer 11

The forms of the to be verb are am, are, is, was, were, be, being, been.

Question 12

Give the common helping (auxiliary) verbs.

Answer 12

The common helping verbs are:

• am, is, are, was, were,*
• be, being, been*
• have, has, had,*
• do, does, did,*
• shall, will, should, would, may, might, must,*
• can, could*

Question 13

What is a pronoun?

Answer 13

A pronoun is a word used in place of a noun.

Question 14

Give the subject personal pronouns in three persons.

Answer 14

I, you, he, she, it, we, you all, they

Question 15

Give an example of a compound subject.

Answer 15

Fern and Avery went to bed early the night before the County Fair.

Question 16

Give an example of a compound verb.

Answer 16

Wilbur stared back at the crowd and tried to look his best.

Question 17

What is a declarative sentence?

Answer 17

A declarative sentence makes a statement.

Question 18

What is an interrogative sentence?

Answer 18

An interrogative sentence asks a question.

Question 19

How do you find the subject in an interrogative sentence?

Answer 19

To find the subject in an interrogative sentence, turn the question into a statement.

Ex. What lesson did you study?
You did study what lesson.

Question 20

What is an imperative sentence?

Answer 20

An imperative sentence gives a command or makes a request.

Question 21

How do you find the subject in an imperative sentence?

Answer 21

In sentences expressing a command or request, the subject is always you.

Question 22

What is an exclamatory sentence?

Answer 22

An exclamatory sentence expresses strong feeling.

Question 23

What is a noun?

Answer 23

A noun is a word that names a person, place, thing, or idea.

Question 24

What is a common noun? Give examples.

Answer 24

A common noun names a non-specific person, place, or thing. It is not capitalised.

Ex. girl, country, building

Question 25

What is a proper noun? Give examples.

Answer 25

A proper noun names a specific person, place, or thing. It is capitalised.

Ex. Elizabeth, Australia, Sydney Opera House

Question 26

What is a verb?

Answer 26

A verb is a word that:
- does an action;
- shows a state of being;
- links two words together;
OR - helps another verb.

Question 27

What verb shows being or existence?

Answer 27

The to be verb shows being or existence.

Question 28

Give the first three English verb tenses and an example of each using I walk.

Answer 28

The first three English verb tenses are present, past, and future.

Present tense - I walk
Past tense - I walked
Future tense - I will walk

Question 29

Define direct object. Give an example.

Answer 29

A direct object is a noun or pronoun that receives the action of the verb.
Ex. The Magister teaches Latin.

Question 30

What is the best way to find the direct object?

Answer 30

Say the simple subject and the simple predicate together, and then ask “Whom?” or “What?”

Question 31

Give the object personal pronouns in three persons.

Answer 31

Me, you, him, her, it, us, you all, them

Question 32

Give the pronoun forms of the possessive pronoun.

Answer 32

Mine, yours, his, hers, its, our, yours, theirs

Question 33

Do you use an apostrophe with a possessive pronoun?

Answer 33

No.

Question 34

What are the demonstrative pronouns?

Answer 34

The demonstrative pronouns point out a person or thing. The pronouns this and these point to something near and the pronouns that and those point to something far.

Question 35

What is an adjective?

Answer 35

An adjective is a word that modifies a noun or pronoun.

Question 36

Give the four questions adjectives answer with examples.

Answer 36

Adjectives answer the questions: which one, what kind, how much or how many, and whose.

Ex. 1 John gave Mary that rose. (which one)

Ex. 2 John gave Mary a red rose. (what kind)

Ex. 3 John gave Mary a dozen roses. (how many)

Ex. 4 John gave Mary her roses. (whose)

Question 37

Define article and name the three English articles.

Answer 37

Articles are words that signify nouns. A and an are the indefinite articles. The is the definite article. Articles are considered adjectives.

Question 38

What is an adverb?

Answer 38

An adverb is a word that modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb.

Question 39

What is a common way of forming adverbs? Give an example.

Answer 39

Many adverbs are formed by adding ly to an adjective.

Ex. slow - He is slow.

slowly - He walks slowly.

Question 40

Give the four questions adverbs answer. Give examples.

Answer 40

Adverbs answer the questions: how (manner), when, where, and to what extent (how often, how much).

Ex. 1 He walks gracefully.(how)

Ex. 2 He walks early.(when)

Ex. 3 He walks everywhere.(where)

Ex. 4 He walks often.(to what extent)

Question 41

What is a paragraph?

Answer 41

A paragraph is a group of sentences that work together to tell about one subject.