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Grammar Flashcards

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What is grammar?

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the breaking down of the building blocks, or parts of speech in language, and the use of those pieces to form complete sentences.

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What are the 8 primary parts of speech?

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1) Nouns
2) Pronouns
3) verbs
4) adjectives
5) Interjection
6) conjunction
7 Preposition
8) Adverbs

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What is a people, places, things or ideas?

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Nouns

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If your naming a specific person, place or idea, what is it called?

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A proper noun

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What is the subject?

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The subject is the person, place, thing or idea that the whole sentence is about, and is usually used by nouns.

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What are words that take the place of nouns?

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Pronouns

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What type of grammar are the following? I, me, he, him, she , her, it, they, we, our, ours

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pronouns

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What is the benefit of pronouns?

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It prevents having to repeat the same proper noun repeatedly in a sentence.

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What type of grammar is an action in a sentence? It tells what the subject does.

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verb

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In order to have a complete sentence, what do you need?

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The subject + verb = sentence

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What are the two types of verbs?

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1) Action verbs
2) linking verbs

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What is a action verb?

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Examples of Linking verbs

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include, am, is, are, was, were, be being, been, becomes, seems, and sometimes, appears, sounds, feels, looks, smells, tastes.

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What is a linking verb?

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When a word links the subject to a noun, that renames the subject or to an adjective that describes the subject. An example is “My dog is Spot.”, “My dog is hungry”. Is is the linking verb in both instances.

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What are adjectives?

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Words that describe nouns. Such as size, number, number, color, and quantity.

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What are adverbs?

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modify, or give us more information about verbs. Adverbs add to verbs. They answer questions such as How, When, Where, and Why. They can be used as single words or full sentences.

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What are prepositions?

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important for connecting words and phrases together in sentences.

18
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What are some examples of prepositions?

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after, against, among, above, around, beneath, below.

19
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What is a way to identify a mountain?

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On the mountain, under the mountain, after the mountain, into the mountain

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What are conjunctions?

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They join words, phrases, and sentences together

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What are some examples of conjunctions?

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and, but, or, so, for, nor, and yet

22
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What is an interjection?

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An exclamation “!”. Its speech that expresses strong emotion and sometimes slows the flow of

23
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What re connotations and denotations?

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Two ways of explaining what words mean.

24
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What are connotations?

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The emotional association or secondary meaning of a word. Words naturally carry positive and negative associations with people.

25
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What are denotations?

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The direct meaning of a word, and is often what you would find in a dictionary.

26
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What are some synonymns?

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Words that have similar or same meanings.

27
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What is an analogy?

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A comparison of two things that are similar in some way.

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What are synonymn anologies?

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Words that are similar in meaning.

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What are different types of analogies?

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1) Part-whole relationship analogy 2) synonym analogies 3) cause and effect analogy 4) classification analogy (type of) 5) Characteristic analogy

30
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What is a characteristic analogy?

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show a relationship between a pair by highlighting a characteristic or trait that a specific, person, place, or thing has.

31
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what is the difference between through, and threw?

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Threw - is the past tense of throw, to toss an object. through - means to enter then exist.

32
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What is the difference between Accept and Except?

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Accept - Means to receive something
Except - To leave something out.

33
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What is the difference between Affect and Effect?

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Affect - is a verb, to use this word when you are describing the action of an impact. Effect -is a noun, ,which means “The result of”

34
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What is the difference of Two, To, and Too?

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