Declarative

Question 1

What is a declarative sentence

Answer 1

A declarative sentence makes a statement and ends with a period.

Question 2

Interrogative

Answer 2

An interrogative sentence asks a question and ends with a question mark.

Question 3

Imperative

Answer 3

An imperative sentence gives a command or request and often ends with a period. It may sometimes end with an exclamation point.

Question 4

Subject
Simple subject
Complete subject

Answer 4

The subject tells whom or what the sentence is about.
The simple subject is the main word or words of the subject.
The complete subject includes the simple subject and the words that modify the subject.

Question 5

Exclamatory

Answer 5

An exclamatory sentence expressed strong emotions and always ends with an exclamation point.

Question 6

Predicate
The simple predicate
The complete predicate

Answer 6

The predicate makes a statement about the subject.
The simple predicate is the main word or words of the predicate.
The complete predicate includes the simple predicate and the words that modify the predicate.

Question 7

Transitive verb

Answer 7

A transitive verb has one or more objects.

Question 7

An intransitive verb

Answer 7

An intransitive verb doesn’t have an object.

Question 7

Inverted order

Answer 7

Inverted order occurs when the subject comes after the predicate or between two parts of the predicate.

Question 8

Direct object

Answer 8

A direct object appears after a transitive and receives the action of the verb. It answers the question what? or whom?

Question 9

Indirect object

Answer 9

An indirect object appears before a direct object. It answers the question for what? or for whom?

Question 9

linking verb

Answer 9

A linking verbs describes a state of being rather than action.

Question 10

predicate noun

Answer 10

a predicate noun follows a linking verb and renames the subject.

Question 10

predicate adjective

Answer 10

a predicate adjective follows a linking verb and describes the subject.

Question 11

phrase

Answer 11

a phrase is a group of related words that doesn’t have both a subject and a predicate.

Question 12

clause

Answer 12

a clause is a group of words that has both a subject and a predicate.

Question 13

fragment

Answer 13

a fragment is an incomplete sentence wrongly punctuated as if it were a complete sentence.

Question 14

independent clause

Answer 14

an independent clause can stand alone as a sentence.

Question 15

dependent clause

Answer 15

a dependent clause cannot stand alone as a sentence but must be part of another sentence.

Question 16

sentence

Answer 16

a sentence is a group of words that has a subject and a predicate, and expresses a complete thought.

Question 17

comma splice

Answer 17

a comma splice is two sentences incorrectly joined by only a comma.

Question 18

fused sentence

Answer 18

a fused sentence is two sentences incorrectly joined without any punctuation.

Question 19

noun

Answer 19

a noun names a person, thing, place, or idea.
Most nouns can appear in four different forms: singular, singular possessive, plural, plural possessive.

Question 20

common noun

Answer 20

a common noun name a type of person, place, thing, or idea.

Question 21

count nouns and non count nouns

Answer 21

count nouns can be made plural.
non count nouns are always singular in form.

Question 22

proper noun

Answer 22

a proper noun names a specific person, place, thing, or idea. Proper nouns are always capitalized.

Question 23

collective nouns

Answer 23

collective nouns names a group. when a collective noun is singular in form, it can be either singular or plural in meaning.

Question 24

compound noun

Answer 24

compound nouns are formed by combining two or more words.

Question 25

noun of direct address

Answer 25

a noun of direct address names the person to whom you are speaking.

Question 26

appositive

Answer 26

an appositive is a word or phrase that follows a noun or a pronoun and renames it.

Question 27

pronoun

Answer 27

pronouns substitutes for a noun.

Question 28

personal pronouns

Answer 28

personal pronouns show person, number, gender, case.

Question 28

antecedent

Answer 28

the word a pronoun replaces is called the antecedent.

Question 28

subjective case pronouns

Answer 28

subjective case pronouns function as subjects and predicate nouns in sentences.

Question 29

predicate nouns

Answer 29

predicate nouns must always be in the subjective case.

Question 29

objective case pronoun

Answer 29

objective case pronouns function as object: direct objects, indirect objects, and objects of prepositions.

Question 29

possessive case

Answer 29

possessive case pronouns often show ownership and usually modify nouns.

Question 30

independent possessives

Answer 30

possessives that function alone as subjects, predicate nouns, and objects are called independent possessives.

Question 31

archaic

Answer 31

archaic second-person pronouns follow grammatical rules for case.

Question 32

courtesy order

Answer 32

in compound constructions, always mention yourself last. Always mention your hearer before anyone else.

Question 33

demonstrative pronouns

Answer 33

demonstrative pronouns, this, that, these, those point out specific persons or things.

Question 34

self selves

Answer 34

pronouns with self or selves are reflexive or intensive pronouns.

Question 34

interrogative pronouns

Answer 34

interrogative pronouns, who, whom, whose, which, and what are used to ask questions. They do not have antecedents.
who is a subjective case and whom is an objective case.

Question 35

reflexive

Answer 35

reflexive pronouns always refer to the same person or thing as the subject and usually function as objects in the sentence.

Question 36

intensive

Answer 36

intensive pronouns emphasize the nouns and function as appositives.

Question 37

indefinite pronouns

Answer 37

indefinite pronouns do not make specific references and do not have antecedents.

Question 37

always singular

Answer 37

some; one, body, thing
any; one, body, thing
every; one, body, thing
no; one, body,
each, one, much, little, less

Question 38

always plural

Answer 38

many, several, both, few, fewer

Question 39

singular or plural

Answer 39

some, any, more, most, all, none

Question 40

relative pronouns

Answer 40

the relative pronouns, who, whom, whose, which, and that relate to dependent clauses to the rest of the sentence. The antecedent of the relative pronoun is a noun in the independent clause.

Question 41

ambiguous

Answer 41

to achieve clear pronoun reference, do not place more than one possible antecedent near the pronoun.

Question 42

remote reference

Answer 42

do not place the pronoun too far from its antecedent.

Question 43

reference to an implied noun

Answer 43

always make the antecedent an actual noun, not an implied noun.