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Essentials Flashcards

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What is a subject? (week 1)

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The subject is that part of the sentence about which something is being said.

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What is a predicate? (week 1)

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The predicate is that part of a sentence which says something about the subject.

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What are the 4 sentence structures? (week 1)

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Simple
Compound
Complex
Compound-complex

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What are the 4 purposes of a sentence? (week 1)

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Declarative (statement)
Exclamatory (!)
Interrogative (?)
Imperative (command)

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What are the 7 patterns of a sentence? (week 1)

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S-Vi
S-Vt-DO
S-VI-PN
S-VL-PA
S-Vt-IO-DO
S-Vt-DO-OCN
S-Vt-DO-OCA
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What are the 8 parts of speech? (week 2)

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noun
pronoun
verb
adverb
conjunction
interjection
preposition
adjective
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what is a verb? (week 2)

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a verb is a word that asserts an action, shows a state of being, links two words together, or helps another verb.

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What is a linking verb? (week 2)

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A linking verb makes an assertion by joining 2 words.
feel - become - remain - taste - seem - appear - look - sound - stay - smell - grow - be
These are linking verbs.

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What is a helping verb? (week 2, 5)

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Am 
Is
Are
Was
Were
Be 
Being
Been
Have, Has, had
Do, does, did
shall
will
should
would
may, might, must
can, could
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What are the verb principal parts? (week 2)

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infinitive (to+verb)
present
past
present participle (verb+ing)
past participle (verb+ed)
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What are the tenses? (week 2)

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simple (I fall)
perfect (I have fallen) (form of “to have”)
progressive (I am falling) (form of “to be”)
perfect-progressive (I have been falling) ((form of “to have + been”)

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List the person forms (week 2)

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first (I or we)
second (you)
third (he, she, it, they)

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What is a noun? (week 3)

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a noun names a person, place, thing, idea or activity.

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What is a pronoun? (week 3)

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a pronoun replaces a noun in order to avoid repetition.

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What are the noun uses? (week 3)

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IPODS: (chart E)
IO
PNA
OP
DO
SN
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What are the noun attributes? (week 3)

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Common / Proper
Singular / Plural
Concrete / Abstract
Collective
Compound
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What are the pronoun uses? (week 3)

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(chart F)
Subjective
Objective
Possessive
Reflexive
Demonstrative
Interrogative
Indefinite
Relative
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What is an interjection? (week 4)

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An interjection is a word or phrase used as a strong expression of feeling or emotion. (help! hooray! ouch!)

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What is an imperative sentence? (week 4)

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Imperative is a command - Implied “you”

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What is an interrogative sentence? (week 5)

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

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What are the three ways to change a sentence to interrogative? (week 5)

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  1. change . to ?
  2. Replace subject with interrogative pronoun
  3. begin sentence with helping verb.
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What are some interrogative pronouns? (week 5)

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(chart F)
who
whom
whose
which
what
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What is a conjunction? (week 6)

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A conjunction is a word used to connect words phrases or clauses. FANBOYS: for, and, nor, but, or yet, so.

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What is a compound sentence? (week 6)

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A compound sentence is at least two independent classes joined by a coordinating conjuction. (FANBOYS)
{subject + verb}, FANBOY, {subject + verb}

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What is S-Vt-DO? (week 6)

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Subject, Verb Transitive (transfers action to the thing that follows (DO)). DO is a noun or pronoun.`

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What is a predicate? (week 6)

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A predicate is that part of the sentence which says something about the subject.

27
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What is an imperative mood? (week 7)

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commands and requests, implied subject “you” (2nd person)

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What is an appositive? (week 7)

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Noun or pronoun directly beside another noun which explains or identifies it. (My dog ROVER can learn tricks).

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What is a Noun of Direct Address? (week 7)

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The person or thing which is being addressed or directly spoken to. (MALLORY, clean your room)

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What is an adverb? (week 7)

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An adverb modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb. (How, when, where, why, to what extent, how often, how much, and under what condition)

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What is a preposition? (week 8)

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A preposition relates a noun or a pronoun to another word.

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What is the difference between a phrase and a clause? (week 8)

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A phrase DOES NOT have a subject and a verb. A clause DOES have a subject and a verb.

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What is a prepositional phrase? (week 8)

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A prepositional phrase consists of a preposition, it’s object, and any modifiers that may exist between them and functions as an adverb or an adjective in a sentence.

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What are four types of verbs? (week 9)

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Vi, Vt, Vl, Vh

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What is a predicate nominative? (week 9)

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A noun or pronoun that follows a linking verb and renames the subject.

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What is an adjective? (week 10)

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An adjective modifies a noun or pronoun by describing, qualifying, or limiting.

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What are the adjective questions? (week 10)

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What kind?
How many?
Which?
Whose?

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What is a predicate adjective? (week 10)

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

39
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What is a complex sentence? (week 13)

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A complex sentence consists of one independent clause and at least one subordinate/dependent clause.

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What is an independent clause? (week 13)

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An independent clause expresses a complete thought like a sentence. It can stand alone.

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What is a dependent / subordinate clause? (week 13)

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A subordinate clause is not a complete thought and cannot stand alone.

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What is an indirect object? (week 14)

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A noun or pronoun between transitive verb and the DO Ask “is there a noun/pronoun between the verb and DO? - “S-Vt-DO to/for whom/what?”

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What is active voice? (week 14)

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Subject is performing the action (the tornado ravaged the town)

44
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What is passive voice? (week 14)

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subject receives the action of the verb (the town was being ravaged by the tornado)

45
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What is no voice? (week 14)

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Linking verbs have no voice.

46
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What is an Object Complement Noun? (week 16)

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An Object Complement Noun is a noun that renames the DO, follows the DO, and is never in a prepositional phrase. Ask “DO who or what?”

47
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Complement (week 16)

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complement = completes
Only some verbs can take a complement: make, call, judge, choose, elect, nominate, name, paint (the verb must perceive, judge, or indicate change).

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What is the object of the preposition? (week 20)

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the Noun that follows the preposition

49
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What are modifiers? (week 20)

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adjectives and adverbs

50
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What is a subject modifier? (week 20)

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Adjectives

51
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What is a predicate modifier? (week 20)

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Adverb

52
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What is a verbal? (week 21)

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Form of a verb that performs the function of an adjective or adverb. {Infinitive, Gerund, Participle}

53
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What is a gerund? (week 23)

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A gerund is a verb form ending in -ing, doing the job of a noun.

54
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Outline a Gerund phrase (week 23)

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Gerund + modifiers + complements

55
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what are four verb attributes? (week 23)

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person
number
voice
mood

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