Grammar Essentials Flashcards
Introduction to basic sentence structure and vocabulary including parts of speech
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- What is your free Grammar Online Textbook?
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- Purdue OWL (Online Writing Lab) -just type the words into Google
2
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- What is a Part of Speech?
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- A Part of Speech is a category of talking about words based on their function in a sentence.
3
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- What are the two basic parts of any complete sentence?
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- Subject and Predicate
4
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- What important part of speech is located in the Subject?
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- The noun or nouns that interact with the main verb of the sentence
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- What important term is located in the Predicate?
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- The main Verb of the sentence
6
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- What is a noun?
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- A person place or thing (things include ideas)
7
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- What is a pronoun?
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- A word that takes the place of another noun
8
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- What is a verb?
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- A word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence, AND forming the main part of the predicate of a sentence, such as hear, become, happen.
9
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- What are Adjectives and Adverbs?
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- Modifiers
10
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- What is a Preposition?
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- A word that orients a noun in time or space
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- What is a Conjunction
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- A word used to connect phrases and clauses
12
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- What are the two kinds of Conjunctions?
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- Coordinating and Subordinating
13
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- What is an article?
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- The part of speech whose only examples are: a, an, the
14
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- What is an interjection?
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- An utterance that expresses spontaneous feeling - Ouch!
15
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- Can a word that is a noun ever change into another part of speech
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- Yes, depending on the form of the word and usage in a sentence.
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- Can a word that is a verb ever change into another part of speech?
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- Yes, depending on the form of the word and usage in a sentence.
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- Can a word that is an Adjective ever change into another part of speech?
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- Yes, depending on the form of the word and usage in a sentence.
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- Can a word that is an Adverb ever change into another part of speech?
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- Yes, depending on the form of the word and usage in a sentence.
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- Can a word that is a Preposition ever change into another part of speech?
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- Very Rarely! for our purposes - let’s consider it a no, but just keep in mind, this one gets tricker the more advanced your studies progress.
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- Can a word that is an Article ever change into another part of speech?
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- No, once an article, always an article
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- The Subject of a sentence will always be a…
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- Noun or group of nouns
22
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- Verbs can be divided into the following two main functional types:
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- Action and Linking