Final Exam Grammar :)

Question 1

Name the five principal parts of a verb

Answer 1

infinitive, present, past, present participle and past participle

Question 2

What will the infinitive always have in front of it?

Answer 2

to

Question 3

Which 2 principal parts parts will have helping verbs?

Answer 3

The Present participle and the Past participle

Question 4

What is the difference between a regular and an irregular verb?

Answer 4

A regular verb forms the past and past participle by adding ed or d to the infinitive. Irregular verbs change their spelling in various ways.

Question 5

What are the principal parts of the verb to swim. (practice with other verbs as well)

Answer 5

To swim, swim, swam, swimming, have swum

Question 6

Name the 6 tenses

Answer 6

Present, Past, Future, Present Perfect, Past Perfect, Future Perfect.

Question 7

What is unique about the third person singular present tense?

Answer 7

The verb ends in s, as in (he/she/it) sings.

Question 8

What helping verbs will the future perfect tense always have?

Answer 8

Will have or shall have.

Question 9

What do the perfect tenses have in common?

Answer 9

The helping verbs have, has or had.

Question 10

The Perfect tenses are formed by what principal part?

Answer 10

The Past participle.

Question 11

What is the progressive form?

Answer 11

The - ing form of the verb.

Question 12

What does it mean to conjugate a verb?

Answer 12

To list a verb form with all its tenses, numbers and persons.

Question 13

Define active and passive voices.

Answer 13

When the subject does the action it is active. When the action is being done to the subject it is passive voice.

Question 14

Give the first person singular present tense of the active and passive voice of to call.

Answer 14

I call, I am called. (Practice with different tenses persons numbers and verbs!)

Question 15

What is the difference between a transitive and intransitive verb?

Answer 15

A transitive verb requires and object to complete the thought; an intransitive verb does not.

Question 16

Transitive and Intransitive verbs are two types of what kind of verb?

Answer 16

Action verbs

Question 17

What are the other types of verbs?

Answer 17

Linking and helping verbs.

Question 18

The verb must always agree with it’s subject in….?

Answer 18

Number

Question 19

What if a prepositional phrase comes between the subject and the verb? Does the verb agree with the subject or the object of the preposition?

Answer 19

The Subject

Question 20

List ten pronouns that are always singular in number.

Answer 20

I he she it its him her his hers each either one neither everybody everyone no one nobody anyone anybody someone somebody.

Question 21

Lit four pronouns that are always plural in number

Answer 21

We they them us Several both many few.

Question 22

Which five pronouns can take either a singular or plural verb?

Answer 22

Some all any most none.

Question 23

Which voice will always have a helping verb?

Answer 23

The Passive voice. (it will be a being helping verb :)

Question 24

With the pronouns that can go either way how do you determine which is required?

Answer 24

The prepositional phrase that modifies the pronoun determines the number.

Question 25

Do singular subjects joined by or OR nor take a singular or plural verb?

Answer 25

Singular

Question 26

What is the rule fora compound subject that inclueds both a singular and plural noun?

Answer 26

The verb agrees in number with the subject nearer to the verb.

Question 27

Explain the rule for collective nouns.

Answer 27

If a group acts as one unit, it requires a singular noun; if it suggests a collection of individuals acting separately, it id plural.