Grammar Flashcards
Name 5 out of 8 parts of speech.
Noun, Pronoun, Adjective, Conjunction, Verb, Adverb, Preposition, Interjection
What is an adverb?
A word that describes a verb
What is one example of comparative form?
-er Better, Nicer, Faster, Sweeter, Louder, Funnier
What is one example of Superlative form?
-est Loudest, nicest, best
Give one example of a conjunction.
But, so, and, or, yet, for, and nor
Coordinating Conjuntion: Two examples
For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So
What is an interjection
A word used to convey or express sudden feelings or emotions (Yikes! Hey! What?)
What is a noun
A person, place or thing
How to change a noun to an adjective
Add suffix to root word
What is a pronoun
Word that replaces a noun (He, she, it, they)
What’s a verb
an action word
active voice
when the subject preforms the action denoted by the verb
Passive voice
The subject recieves the action of the verb rather than preforming it.
How to change a verb to a noun
add suffix -tion or -ment
Interoggative pronouns
who, whom, whose, what, which
Present Participle
the -ing form of a verb when it’s used as an adjective
Past Participle
end with -ed, -en, -d, -t, or -n
Future Perfect Tense
A verb tense for verbs that will occure in the future.
Use of Quotation Marks?
“Denots speech!” I say
Parallelism
when two words or phrases are parallel in meaning.
Colon
Used to precede a list of items, a quotation, or an expansion or explanation.
Compound or Complex sentence
A sentence having two or more coordinate independent clauses and one or more dependant clauses. Example “Though Mitchel prefers watching romantic films, he rented the latest spy thriller, and he enjoyed it very much.”
Misplaced Modifier
A word or phrase that’s in the wrong spot.
