Essentials Flashcards
What is a subject? (week 1)
The subject is that part of the sentence about which something is being said.
What is a predicate? (week 1)
The predicate is that part of a sentence which says something about the subject.
What are the 4 sentence structures? (week 1)
Simple
Compound
Complex
Compound-complex
What are the 4 purposes of a sentence? (week 1)
Declarative (statement)
Exclamatory (!)
Interrogative (?)
Imperative (command)
What are the 7 patterns of a sentence? (week 1)
S-Vi S-Vt-DO S-VI-PN S-VL-PA S-Vt-IO-DO S-Vt-DO-OCN S-Vt-DO-OCA
What are the 8 parts of speech? (week 2)
noun pronoun verb adverb conjunction interjection preposition adjective
what is a verb? (week 2)
a verb is a word that asserts an action, shows a state of being, links two words together, or helps another verb.
What is a linking verb? (week 2)
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.
What is a helping verb? (week 2, 5)
Am Is Are Was Were Be Being Been Have, Has, had Do, does, did shall will should would may, might, must can, could
What are the verb principal parts? (week 2)
infinitive (to+verb) present past present participle (verb+ing) past participle (verb+ed)
What are the tenses? (week 2)
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”)
List the person forms (week 2)
first (I or we)
second (you)
third (he, she, it, they)
What is a noun? (week 3)
a noun names a person, place, thing, idea or activity.
What is a pronoun? (week 3)
a pronoun replaces a noun in order to avoid repetition.
What are the noun uses? (week 3)
IPODS: (chart E) IO PNA OP DO SN
What are the noun attributes? (week 3)
Common / Proper Singular / Plural Concrete / Abstract Collective Compound
What are the pronoun uses? (week 3)
(chart F) Subjective Objective Possessive Reflexive Demonstrative Interrogative Indefinite Relative
What is an interjection? (week 4)
An interjection is a word or phrase used as a strong expression of feeling or emotion. (help! hooray! ouch!)
What is an imperative sentence? (week 4)
Imperative is a command - Implied “you”
What is an interrogative sentence? (week 5)
an interrogative sentence asks a question and ends with a question mark.
What are the three ways to change a sentence to interrogative? (week 5)
- change . to ?
- Replace subject with interrogative pronoun
- begin sentence with helping verb.
What are some interrogative pronouns? (week 5)
(chart F) who whom whose which what
What is a conjunction? (week 6)
A conjunction is a word used to connect words phrases or clauses. FANBOYS: for, and, nor, but, or yet, so.
What is a compound sentence? (week 6)
A compound sentence is at least two independent classes joined by a coordinating conjuction. (FANBOYS)
{subject + verb}, FANBOY, {subject + verb}
What is S-Vt-DO? (week 6)
Subject, Verb Transitive (transfers action to the thing that follows (DO)). DO is a noun or pronoun.`
What is a predicate? (week 6)
A predicate is that part of the sentence which says something about the subject.
What is an imperative mood? (week 7)
commands and requests, implied subject “you” (2nd person)
What is an appositive? (week 7)
Noun or pronoun directly beside another noun which explains or identifies it. (My dog ROVER can learn tricks).
What is a Noun of Direct Address? (week 7)
The person or thing which is being addressed or directly spoken to. (MALLORY, clean your room)
What is an adverb? (week 7)
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)
What is a preposition? (week 8)
A preposition relates a noun or a pronoun to another word.
What is the difference between a phrase and a clause? (week 8)
A phrase DOES NOT have a subject and a verb. A clause DOES have a subject and a verb.
What is a prepositional phrase? (week 8)
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.
What are four types of verbs? (week 9)
Vi, Vt, Vl, Vh
What is a predicate nominative? (week 9)
A noun or pronoun that follows a linking verb and renames the subject.
What is an adjective? (week 10)
An adjective modifies a noun or pronoun by describing, qualifying, or limiting.
What are the adjective questions? (week 10)
What kind?
How many?
Which?
Whose?
What is a predicate adjective? (week 10)
A predicate adjective follows a linking verb and describes the subject.
What is a complex sentence? (week 13)
A complex sentence consists of one independent clause and at least one subordinate/dependent clause.
What is an independent clause? (week 13)
An independent clause expresses a complete thought like a sentence. It can stand alone.
What is a dependent / subordinate clause? (week 13)
A subordinate clause is not a complete thought and cannot stand alone.
What is an indirect object? (week 14)
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?”
What is active voice? (week 14)
Subject is performing the action (the tornado ravaged the town)
What is passive voice? (week 14)
subject receives the action of the verb (the town was being ravaged by the tornado)
What is no voice? (week 14)
Linking verbs have no voice.
What is an Object Complement Noun? (week 16)
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?”
Complement (week 16)
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).
What is the object of the preposition? (week 20)
the Noun that follows the preposition
What are modifiers? (week 20)
adjectives and adverbs
What is a subject modifier? (week 20)
Adjectives
What is a predicate modifier? (week 20)
Adverb
What is a verbal? (week 21)
Form of a verb that performs the function of an adjective or adverb. {Infinitive, Gerund, Participle}
What is a gerund? (week 23)
A gerund is a verb form ending in -ing, doing the job of a noun.
Outline a Gerund phrase (week 23)
Gerund + modifiers + complements
what are four verb attributes? (week 23)
person
number
voice
mood
