Grammar

Question 0

What is a common noun?

Answer 0

Names a general noun

School

Question 1

What is a noun?

Answer 1

The name of a person, place, thing or idea

Question 2

What is a proper noun?

Answer 2

Names a specific noun

Notre Dame Academy

Question 3

What is a collective noun?

Answer 3

Names a group of people or things

Herd

Question 4

What is a compound noun?

Answer 4

A noun consisting of more than a single word

Physical education

Question 5

What is a pronoun?

Answer 5

A word used in the place of one or more nouns

Question 6

What is the antecedent?

Answer 6

The noun(s) that the pronoun is referring to

Question 7

Roberto feels that he can win the race.

Which is the pronoun, which is the antecedent?

Answer 7

Pronoun: he
Antecedent: Roberto

Question 8

What is a personal pronoun? (What does it refer to?)

Answer 8

Refers to to people or things

Question 9

What are the three types of personal pronouns?

Answer 9

First person: “I/my/mine”…………….”we/ours/us”
Second person: “you/yours”………..”you/yours”
Third person: “he/his/her/she/it”…..”they/their/them”

Question 10

What is a reflexive/intensive pronoun?

Answer 10

Self/selves!

Question 11

What are interrogative pronouns? (Examples)

Answer 11

Used to ask a question

Which
Who
Whose
Whom 
What

Question 12

What is a demonstrative pronoun? (Examples)

Answer 12

Used to point out something specific

This
That
These
Those

Question 13

What do indefinite pronouns refer to?

Answer 13

The don’t refer to anything specific

e.g. Everybody will help with everything

Question 14

What kinds of questions do adjectives answer?

Answer 14

Which kind
Which ones
How many
How much

Question 15

Wendy payed fifty dollars for the jacket.

What is adjective?

Answer 15

Fifty

Question 16

What are the three articles?

Answer 16

A, an, the

Question 17

Give an example of a proper adjective…

Answer 17

Herculean strength or Italian bread

Question 18

This is difficult.
This problem is difficult.
Which “this” is an adjective and which is a pronoun?

Answer 18

Pronoun, adjective

Question 19

What are the three types of verbs?

Answer 19

Action, helping, linking

Question 20

What does an action verb do?

Answer 20

Tells what action the subject is performing

Question 21

What does a linking verb do?

Answer 21

Connects a subject to the noun or adjective

He=tired, he=fireman

Question 22

What does the helping verb do?

Answer 22

Assists the main verb in the sentence

Question 23

The members are going to the city tomorrow evening.

Which is the helping and main verb?

Answer 23

Are- helping

Going- main

Question 24

What is an adverb?

Answer 24

A word that modifies a verb, adjective, or another adverb

Question 25

Adverbs usually end in -____

Answer 25

-ly

Question 26

What questions do adverbs answer?

Answer 26

When
Where
How
To what extent

Question 27

What do adjectives modify?

Answer 27

Nouns and pronouns

Question 28

What is a preposition?

Answer 28

A word that shows a relationship between a noun and another word in the sentence

Question 29

A man swam under the bridge.

What is the preposition?

Answer 29

Under

Question 30

What does a conjunction do?

Answer 30

Connects a group of words

Question 31

What are the three types of conjunctions?

Answer 31

Coordinating
Correlative
Subordinating

Question 32

What is a coordinating conjunction?

Answer 32

Single connecting word

Question 33

What are the seven coordinating conjunctions?

Answer 33

For
And 
Nor
But
Or
Yet 
So

Question 34

What are the 5 pairs of the correlative conjunctions?

Answer 34

Both .. And 
Neither .. Nor
Either .. Or
Not only .. But also 
Whether .. Or

Question 35

What is an interjection?

Answer 35

A word that expresses strong emotion