English Block Test 1 Flashcards
What is a noun?
A noun is a word used to name or refer to a thing.
What is a story?
A story is an oral or a written account.
What is a proper noun?
A proper noun names a specific person, place, thing, or organization and must always
be capitalized.
What is an oral tradition?
An oral tradition is when knowledge, art ideas, and cultural material get passed down orally from one generation to another.
What is a common noun?
A common noun is a non-specific name for people, places, things, periods, or time.
What is a society?
A society is a system of sharing and human connection.
What is a noun phrase?
A noun phrase is a collection of words that act as a noun in a sentence.
What is an aetiological story?
An aetiological story explains why things are the way they are.
(Aetiology is a cause or a reason for things)
What is a pronoun?
A pronoun is a word that replaces a noun or a noun phrase in a sentence.
What is a manuscript?
A manuscript is a document written by hand rather than printed.
What is a verb?
A verb is a word that indicates an action or state.
What is a propaganda?
A propaganda is a systematic spreading of information, especially in a biased or misleading way.
What is an independent clause?
An independent clause is a collection of words that has a subject, verb which makes a grammatically correct thought.
What is a macron?
A macron is a horizontal line above vowels which indicates a long vowel sound.
What is a historian?
A historian is a person who writes and analyses the past the events of the past critically, rather than only recounting.
