Grammar S2 2+3+4 2024-2025

Question 1

What is a subject?

Answer 1

A subject of the sentence is the noun that corresponds with the verb in the sentence

Question 2

What is a verb?

Answer 2

The action being done by the noun

Question 3

What is subject verb agreement?

Answer 3

A rule that states all subjects must agree with their verbs in number

Question 4

In present and present perfect verb tenses, do third person singular verb forms or third person plural verb forms end in an “s”

Answer 4

Third person singular verb forms

Question 5

Prepositional phrases

Answer 5

Starts with a preposition, subject cannot be contained within a prepositional phrase

Question 6

Strategy for prepositional phrases

Answer 6

Cross out the prepositional phrase
Identify the subject and determine if it is singular or plural
Determine if there’s an error in subject verb agreement

Question 7

Non essential clauses

Answer 7

Surrounded by commas/dashes/parentheses, the subject verb agreement error can be contained within the clause itself, starts with a relative pronoun

Question 8

Relative pronouns

Answer 8

Which, who, whose, where

Question 9

Appositives

Answer 9

Does not have a verb, can be removed without changing the meaning or creating a grammatical error

Question 10

Essential clauses with “that”

Answer 10

Will involve a clause beginning with “that” and will end right before the verb

Question 11

Trap #2: Subject comes after the verb

Answer 11

Remember that the subject is the noun that’s doing the action, sometimes there is no prepositional phrase

Question 12

Trap #3: Compound Subjects

Answer 12

Compound subject is a subject in which two singular nouns are connected by “and,” in a sentence with a compound subject, you should use the plural form of the verb

Question 13

What is a pronoun?

Answer 13

A pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun. Any word that replaces a noun is a pronoun

Question 14

What is an antecedent?

Answer 14

An antecedent is the noun a pronoun replaces

Question 15

What is pronoun antecedent agreement?

Answer 15

A pronoun must always match its antecedent

Question 16

What are the most common pronouns and their correct uses?

Answer 16

I/me/my – first person singular
we/us/ours – first person plural
you/your – second person (singular and plural)
he/him/his – third person masculine
she/her/hers – third person feminine
it/its – third person singular neutral
they/them/their – third person plural (they/them/their is also used in everyday speech as third person singular but whether “they” should or shouldn’t be singular for individual people is not a usage the ACT will test you on)

Question 17

What does it mean for a pronoun and antecedent to match?

Answer 17

For a pronoun and an antecedent to match, they need to agree in number and person

Question 18

Pronoun disagreement in number

Answer 18

Need to check if the antecedent is singular and plural and if that is the case, the pronoun must match with a singular or plural counterpart

Question 19

Pronoun disagreement in person

Answer 19

A pronoun must reflect the type of thing it’s replacing, also, if you start a sentence in first person, you should not suddenly switch to the third person without a clear reason

Question 20

What is the rule for “one” and “you”

Answer 20

A passage should only stick to one or the other

Question 21

Unclear antecedents

Answer 21

Important to remember that a pronoun’s antecedent must be a noun and you must be able to circle it in the text, if this is not the case, you need to choose the answer that makes explicit what the pronoun is meant to refer to

Question 22

Where will the noun be relative to this, that, these, and those

Answer 22

Immediately after these pronouns

Question 23

Pronoun agreement rules

Answer 23

Every pronoun must have a clear noun antecedent, pronouns and their antecedents have to match in number, gender, and person

Question 24

For which pronouns can the antecedent come immediately after the pronoun?

Answer 24

This, those, that, and these

Question 25

Prepositions

Answer 25

about, above, across, after, against, along, behind, below, beneath, beside, besides, between, down, during, except, for, from, in, of, off, on, onto, opposite, out, outside, through, till, to, toward, under, underneath, until, with, within, without