English And Reading Flashcards
Word end in y
Keep when consonant before change to i when vowel before keep when suffix starts with i
Word end in c
If suffix starts with e I or y add a k
Word end in e
Keep if it’s silent or suffix starts with no vowel unless it’s able or ous
Letters numbers and symbols plural
Add ‘s
Which vs that vs who
Which for things
That for things or people. Things when removing the clause makes the sentence make no sense
Who for people or animals with name
A vs an
An when vowel or if consonant is silent
A with consonant
Quotation mark vs apostrophy
Long thing are italic short works are quotations
Types of pronouns intensive, relative, interrogative, demonstrative, indefinite, reciprocal
Intense - An intensive pronoun is a word that emphasizes a noun or pronoun in a sentence.
Relative - which who whom whose that
Interrogative- for a question takes the place of a noun
Demonstrative - this theese that those
Indefinite - non specific people
Reciprocal - each other” and “one another
Transitive vs intransitive verbs
Transitive- verb that indicates a receiver
Action vs linking verbs
Actions are an action
linking are being becoming seeming can replace with is
Active vs passive voice
Active is a subject doing a thing
Passive is a subject having something done to it
Perfect verb tenses
Present - action started in the past and is still going or at an unspecified earlier time - add have
Past - seconds verb happened first - add had
Future perfect - uses past and future - add will
Past vs past participle
Participle needs have or has to be understood
How many
Adjective
Definite vs Indefinite
Definite is one thing Indefinite is many
A an the
Relative adverb positive comparative superlative
Positive is normal
comparitive is comparing one person or thing to another
Superlative is more than two people or thints
Preposition
Shows relationship between object and another word
Conjunction coordinating correlative subordinating
Coordinating - and but yet or nor for and so
Correlative - either or neither nor not only but also
Subordinating - join an independent and dependent clause
Complete vs simple subject
Complete has all modifiers
Imperative sentence
Subject isn’t actually in the sentence - you instead
Predicate
The sentence besides the subject
Indefinite pronoun
Indefinite pronouns are pronouns that are used to refer to someone or something in a general way, without being specific about whom or what you’re referring to
no-, any-, some-, and every- with -thing, -one, and -body.
Direct and indirect objects
A direct object is a noun or pronoun that directly receives the action of a verb what or who plus the verb
Indirect object something that came from the direct object
Predicate nominative amd adjectives
Links the subject to words that describe or definite it
