final exam review (grammar)

Question 1

shows action, links, indicates existence

Answer 1

verb

Question 2

takes the place of a noun

Answer 2

pronoun

Question 3

word for which a pronoun stands

Answer 3

antecedent

Question 4

describes verbs

Answer 4

adverbs

Question 5

word describes nouns and pronoun

Answer 5

adjective

Question 6

shows how a noun or pronoun is related to another noun in the sentence

Answer 6

preposition

Question 7

conjunction joins things of equal rank

Answer 7

coordinating conjunction (and but or nor for yet)

Question 8

joins things of unequal rank

Answer 8

subordinating conjunction

Question 9

coordinating conjunction that works as a pair

Answer 9

corelative conjunction

Question 10

what pronoun often introduced as a dependent clause

Answer 10

relative clauses

Question 11

part of a sentence about which something is said

Answer 11

subject

Question 12

shows how a noun is relative to some other word in a sentence

Answer 12

preposition

Question 13

group of related words that contain both subject and verb

Answer 13

clause

Question 14

nouns used to introduce dependent clauses

Answer 14

relative pronouns

Question 15

what is a verb form that is always an adjective

Answer 15

participal

Question 16

part of a noun that determines whether its single or plural

Answer 16

number

Question 17

subject is doing the action, the verb is in what voice

Answer 17

active

Question 18

subject is receiving the action, what is the voice

Answer 18

passive

Question 19

what mood gives a command or makes a request

Answer 19

imparitive

Question 20

mood states a fact or ask a question

Answer 20

indicative

Question 21

subject of infinitive is in what pronoun case

Answer 21

objective

Question 22

case used to modify a gerund

Answer 22

possessive case

Question 23

group of words that do not express a complete though

Answer 23

fragment

Question 24

two or more sentences written incorrectly as one sentence

Answer 24

run on

Question 25

one word definition of unity

Answer 25

oneness

Question 26

term for subbornating the wrong clause

Answer 26

upside down subbordination

Question 27

error for two or more possible meanings for a pronoun

Answer 27

ambiguous

Question 28

phrase meaning it does not follow

Answer 28

non sequitur

Question 29

three items in a series and two are gerunds and ones an infinitve is a

Answer 29

error parallelism

Question 30

only using as many words a necessary

Answer 30

conciseness

Question 31

when you start sentences in many different ways

Answer 31

variety

Question 32

short vowel sound

Answer 32

breve

Question 33

macron makes what sound

Answer 33

long

Question 34

broad vowel sound

Answer 34

derisis

Question 35

term for field labels, etc

Answer 35

restrictive labels

Question 36

words formed from entry + suffix

Answer 36

run on entry

Question 37

term for words used rarely in modern english

Answer 37

archaic

Question 38

obsolete words

Answer 38

words that are never used

Question 39

gives the feelings and emotions that a word suggest

Answer 39

connotation

Question 40

strict dictionary definition of a word

Answer 40

denotation