English

Question 1

Noun

Answer 1

Names a person, place, or thing.

Question 2

Subject pronoun

Answer 2

Indicates who or what “performs” the action of a sentence as in: I, you, he, she, it, they and we are subjects.

Question 3

Object pronoun

Answer 3

Indicates who and what “receives” action me, you, him, her, it, us and them are objects.

Question 4

Singular noun

Answer 4

Names person person place or thing.

Question 5

Plural noun

Answer 5

Names more than one.

Question 6

Possessive noun

Answer 6

Shows ownership.

Question 7

Adjective

Answer 7

Tells how, where, when, and to what extent.

Question 8

Adjective

Answer 8

Tell what kind of, which one, or how many.

Question 9

Adverb

Answer 9

Tells how, where, when, and to state of being.

Question 10

Predicate

Answer 10

The sentence part that says something about the subject. It contains the verb or verb phrase.

Question 11

Direct Object

Answer 11

Is a noun that follows an action verb. It receives the action.

Question 12

Tense of a verb

Answer 12

Shows the time of action: past, present and future.

Question 13

Commas

Answer 13

Are used to separate items in a series, to separate parts of dates, to separate parts of names.

Question 14

Colons

Answer 14

Are used to separate hours and minutes in time or to introduce a list and follow a business letter.

Question 15

Semicolons

Answer 15

Are used to separate independent clauses in a sentence.

Question 16

Parentheses

Answer 16

Are used to show that information is not part of main statement.

Question 17

Quotations marks

Answer 17

Used to show the beginning and end of someone’s exact words.

Question 18

Sentence

Answer 18

A group of works the express a complete thought; has a subject and a predicate.

Question 19

Simple sentence

Answer 19

A sentence the expresses only one complete thought.

Question 20

Compound sentence

Answer 20

Made up of 2 simple sentences joined by a comma and the word and, but, or.

Question 21

Sentence fragment

Answer 21

A word group that has no subject or predicate or does not express a complete thought.

Question 22

Run- on sentence

Answer 22

Consists of 2 or more sentence joined without a conjunction.

Question 23

Independent clause

Answer 23

Another name for a simple sentence.

Question 24

Dependent clause

Answer 24

Has a subject and a verb but CANNOT stand alone as a sentence for it has no complete thought.

Question 25

Complex sentence

Answer 25

Consist of one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses.

Question 26

Compound-complex sentence

Answer 26

Consist of 2 or more independent clauses and at least one dependent clause.