Final Flashcards

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What is a verb

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Action

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4 inflections Most of verbs take

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Third person singular, present tense form
Past tense form
Present participle
Past participle

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What is third person singular, present tense form

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Adds -s

He WALKS to school everyday.
The verb call mom when it takes the -s, goes after the third person singular subject for example he, she, it, Tom. The sentence for this form usually appears describes or mentions an activity that is routine or factual.

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What is the past tense form

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Past tense form means the infliction -ed goes after the verb and we are discussing something in the past
He WALKED to school yesterday

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Present participle is what

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-ing We are discussing something going on right now at this moment are over a period of time

He is WALKING to school right now

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What is past participle

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-ed or -en goes on the Verb have just finished something or perhaps I’ve recently taken something or done something

He has WALKED to school for years
he has TAKEN his time since his youth

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What is the difference between regular and irregular verbs

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Buy, bought irregular
Move, moves, moved- regular
If the word “changes”

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What are the six forms of verbs

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Base - ( helper do will) take, walk
Present participle: (helper is were) taking, walking
Past participle- ( helper had has ) taken, walked
General president- take, walk
-S present- takes, walks
Past tense form-took, walked
Top 3 are nonfinite

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Six verb forms “in action”

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Base, present participle, past participle are nonfinite verbs so they will come after the auxiliary verbs

General president,-S present, past tense form are finite verbs and don’t need and auxiliary

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What does verb tense mean

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Tense refers to the timeframe in which something happened

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The 12 verb tenses

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The simple tenses
Present past future
The progressive tenses
The perfect tenses
Perfect progressive tenses
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Simple present tenses : To walk

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Present: I walk to school
Past: I walked to school
Future: I WILL walk to school

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The progressive tense: to walking

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Present: I AM walking to school
Past: I WAS walking to school
Future: I WILL BE walking to school

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The perfect tenses: to walk

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Present: I HAVE walked to school
Past: I HAD walked to school
Future: I WILL HAVE Walked to school

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The perfect progressive tense: to walk

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Present: I HAVE BEEN walking to school
Past: I HAD BEEN walking to school
Future: I WILL HAVE BEEN walking to school

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Which auxiliary verbs are used in what tense

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Do, be and have are the three main auxiliary verbs

Do is used with the base form of verbs

Be is used in the present participle form of verbs ( also is the key to each of the 6 progressive tenses)
Have is used in the past participle form of the verb. Have is a key player in all six forms of the perfect tense
Perfect progressive tense is use both have and be

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What tense can’t be made negations

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Present simple
And past simple unless we add the auxiliary
Do

Preston: John does not take his time
Past : John did not take his time

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What is a compound verb phrase

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A verb phrase that consist of two or more verbs or verb phrases united by conjunction like the word and
Ex Jack ran up the hill and jumped over the fence.
The verb should be the same type, transitive, intransitive, or linking.
If they are transitive they will share the same direct object

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What is a verb phrase

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The verb phrase is another way of saying predicate

20
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What are the three types of verb phrases

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Transitive intransitive and linking

21
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Tell me about transitive

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Do io and oc only appear in transitive verb phrases
The verb is never followed by a noun phrase or an adjective phrase

Ex the farmer grows wheat ( wheat is the do)

22
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What can only appear in linking verb phrases

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Sc

The child grew bored ( bored is the subject complement adjective phrase)

23
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Tell me about intransitive verb

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Intransitive verb phrases don’t need a noun phrase in may have no other words that appear or may have an adverb phrase
The flowers in the garden will grow

24
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How do you recognize active voice

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Active voice has the usual subject verb object structure

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How do you recognize Passive voice

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The direct objects and sometimes the indirect objects are moved to the subject position

Ex active - ups will deliver the package (package do. Ups Supj.)
Passive - the package will be delivered by ups

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What four out of the 12 verb tense can we not convert to passive voice

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Perfect progressive present past and future

Future progressive

27
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What is a compound sentence

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Subject + predicate+ and/but/or + subject + predicate

The compound sentence is a union between two main causes both of which could stand alone as a sentence

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What are the conjunctions usually found between the two clauses in a compound sentence

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FANBOYS 
F=for
A=and
N=nor
B=but
O=or 
Y=yet
S=so
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How do you identify adverbial clauses

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Adverbal clauses answer the three main question all adverbs do. When, where, and why. But they may also give information like concession and condition
Examples
We waited outside ( ALTHOUGH the weather was awful) concession
Accidents always happen (WHEN you least expect them) when

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How do you identify noun clauses

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Noun clause is go where noun phrases go
Ex (whoever stole that cake$ will go to jail kanaka replace the noun clause with a pronoun is a test
Ex someone will go to jail

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How do you identify relative clauses

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Please give information about the noun and stand in the noun phrase immediately after the head noun. They are introduced by relative pronouns, these relative pronouns active subordinating conjunction‘s

Who  ( subject, predicate noun, human) 
Whose (possessive) 
Whom ( object, human) 
Which ( subj/obj, nonhuman) 
That ( subj/obj, nonhuman)