Grammar Flashcards

1
Q

The verb BE has three forms:

A

Am, is, are

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2
Q

What type of sentence is this?
I am a teacher
You are a student
He is in the lab
She is my sister

A

Affirmative sentence

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3
Q

What type of sentence is this?

A

She is not sad
They are not in the school
She is not here

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4
Q

are called that because the answers always start with Yes
or No

A

Yes/ No question

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5
Q

-It looks for information
according to the question word.
-In this kind of question you never answer
Yes or No, because they are asking for some
information. The answer is a statement with
the information according to the question
word

A

WH-question

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6
Q

We use THIS / THESE when the objects are near to the speaker
We use THAT / THOSE when the objects are far from the speakers.

A

Demonstratives

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7
Q

We use _________ when the objects are far from the speakers.

A

That/those

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8
Q

We use ________ when the objects are near to the speaker

A

This/these

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9
Q

What do you call these nouns?
boss - bosses
tax - taxes
bush - bushes
fly - flies
try - tries
curry – curries
cat - cats
face - faces
day – days

A

Plural Nouns

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10
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What do you call these nouns
knife - knives
life - lives
wife - wives
half - halves
wolf - wolves
loaf - loaves
potato - potatoes
tomato - tomatoes
volcano -
volcanoes

A

Irregular Plural Nouns

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11
Q

What do you call these adjectives?
I My
You Your
He His
She Her
It Its
We Our
They Their

A

Possessive adjectives

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12
Q

What do you call these prepositions?
In the house in a shop
In a room in a town
In a car in a garden
On a shelf on a wall
On a plate on the table
On a balcony on a door

A

Preposition of Place

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13
Q

is used to
describe activities that
happen now, that
means activities that
are develop in the
moment of speaking

A

Present continous

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14
Q

is used to show ability

A

Can

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15
Q

What are the lexical catergories?

A

Noun
Verb
Pronoun
Interjection
Adjective
Adverb
Preposition
Conjuction

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16
Q

The word that names a person, place, thing, an idea

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Noun

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17
Q

Kinds of noun

A

common
proper
singular
plural
singular possessive
plural possessive

18
Q

are names of any,
place, or thing and name of person.
Common nouns are not capitalized.
* The city
* A policeman
* That newspaper

A

Common nouns

19
Q

are the name of a
special person, place, or thing. Proper
nouns are capitalized.
* Dallas
* Officer Walker
* New York Times

A

Proper nouns

20
Q

A word that expresses action
or otherwise helps to make a
statement.

A

Verb

21
Q

Every sentence must have
a

A

Verb

22
Q

verbs express
mental or physical
action

A

Action verbs

23
Q

make a statement by
connecting the subject
with a word that
describes or explains
it

A

Linking verbs

24
Q

Kind of Verbs

A

Action and linking verbs

25
Q

Links subject to noun or an adjective in
the predicate part of the sentence.
* Is, are, was ,were, am, been
* Smell, look, taste, remain, feel, appear,
sound, seem, become, grow, stand, turn

A

Linking verbs

26
Q

is a word used in place of one or more nouns.
It may stand for a person, place, thing, or idea.

A

Pronoun

27
Q

Types of pronouns

A

Personal
Indefinite
Demonstrative
Interrogative
Relative
Possessive
Reflexive
Reciprocal

28
Q

What type of pronouns
I, me, mine
you, your, yours
she, her, hers,
it, its
we, us, our, ours
they, them, their,
theirs
myself
yourself

A

Personal

29
Q

Type of pronoun
anybody
each
either
none
someone, one, etc

A

Indefinite

30
Q

Type of pronoun
this
that
these
those

A

Demonstrative

31
Q

Type of pronoun
who
whom
what
which
whose

A

Interrogative

32
Q

Modifies or describes a
noun or pronoun

A

Adjectives

33
Q

Modifies or describes
a verb, an adjective,
or another adverb

A

Adverb

34
Q

Kind of adverbs

A

Interrogative adverbs

35
Q

Kind of adverb that introduce questions

A

Interrogative adverb

36
Q

introduces a noun or pronoun
or a phrase or clause functioning in the sentence
as a noun.

A

Preposition

37
Q

The word or word group that the
preposition introduces is its

A

Object

38
Q

RELATES A
NOUN OR
PRONOUN TO
ANOTHER
WORD IN THE
SENTENCE

A

Preposition

39
Q

They received a postcard from Bobby telling
about his trip to Thailand.
What type of lexical category?

A

Preposition

40
Q

is a word that joins words
or groups of words

A

conjuction

41
Q

CONNECTS WORDS OR INDIVIDUAL
GROUPS OF WORDS
-AND, BUT, OR, NOR,FOR, SO, YET
-EITHER, OR, NEITHER, NOR

A

Conjunction

42
Q

is an exclamatory word that expresses
emotion

A

interjection