Grammer

Question 1

Verbs

Answer 1

describes an action, state of being, or event.

stat of being ex. is, was, were,) (shall, will, should

Question 2

Gerreund

Answer 2

Is an ing word used as a noun

• you should be able to subsitute a noun for it.
• a ing without a helper verb is not a real verb
  ex) sine he was five years old, swiming was his passion
  ex) He enjoys swiming more than spending time with here

Question 3

I am boxing

Answer 3

The verb for is am boxing (am is the helper

Question 4

I love boxing

Answer 4

boxing is a gerrund

Question 5

I wish christan bale was my boxing coach

Answer 5

boxing is adjective

Question 6

Invinitive

Answer 6

(to love, to defeat, to go) base form before conjucating the verb. it is never main verb
An infinitive will almost always begin with to followed by the simple form of the verb.

Question 7

“I hate to pay taxes”- TO PAY

Answer 7

invinitive

Question 8

Present perfect verb

Answer 8

An action or situation that started in the past and continues in the present. ex) I have lived (ie has or have.

Question 9

Past perfect verbs

Answer 9

“had” verbs are used to describe situation in which one past even occurred before another past event.

Question 10

Past Perfect example

Answer 10

I had eaten three pieces of cake when I learned that the cake was poisoned.
or
By 2011 she had traveled to india twice.

Question 11

Adverb

Answer 11

Are used to modify verbs. They can be used to describe adjectives. They do not describe nouns.
-To describe the verb (why how when did he run?)

Question 12

Example of Adverbs

Answer 12

ly, also, late, fast, only, hard, high, very

Question 13

You are quite correct

Answer 13

quite (adverb) modyfiying adjective correct

Question 14

“The company needs to move quick if its to launch its new product before the holiday shopping season”

Answer 14

quick should be quickly

Question 15

“I feel badly”

Answer 15

correct: bad

Question 16

Adjective cannot modify a verb

Answer 16

The performer lively danced

Question 17

Preopositions

Answer 17

are used to construct modifies.
* a word governing, and usually preceding, a noun or pronoun and expressing a relation to another word or element in the clause, as in “the man on the platform,” “she arrived after dinner,” “what did you do it for ?”.

Question 18

Most common prepositions

Answer 18

of, in, on, at, to, for, with, but, from

Question 19

More on Prepositions

Answer 19

Prepositions indicate relationships between other words in a sentence.
-Many prepositions tell you where something is or when something happened.

Question 20

Less common prepositions

Answer 20

until

Question 21

Complex prepositions (2 words) simply connect two parts of a sentence

Answer 21

ie. according to, apart from

Question 22

Prepositional Phrase

Answer 22

a group of words with two major components the preposition itself and the object (never subject) attached to it.
-After the preposition there is some kind of noun, pronoun, gerund,

Question 23

Examples of Prepositional Phrases

Answer 23

by commiting murder, from him

Question 24

Helping Verbs

Answer 24

is, was, will, should

Question 25

“The Jury had delivered a verdict of guilty”

Answer 25

there has to be another past action that the had verb comes before
-had is written in the firstt even and the past -ed to the second

Question 26

Why is it important to know Preopositional Phrase?

Answer 26

To ignore them and focus on core of sentence where mistakes are made

Question 27

Conjuctions

Answer 27

Link words, phrases, and clauses, making lists, or contrasts,

Question 28

Examples of Conjuctions

Answer 28

and, yet, not only, when, but, either, if, because

Question 29

Coordinating Conjuctions

Answer 29

for, and, nor, but, or, yet (FANBOY)

Question 30

Correlative Conjections

Answer 30

Either/or, niether/nor, both/and

Question 31

parts after corellative conjuction have to match (verb w/verb noun

Answer 31

You can was the dishes or I will leave you = wrong

Question 32

Predicate

Answer 32

The predicate is the part of a sentence (or clause) that tells us what the subject does or is. To put it another way, the predicate is everything that is not the subject.

Question 33

Modifiers

Answer 33

Describe something in the sentence. Its not part of the core sentance. All prepositional phrases are modifiers.

Question 34

Open Modifers

Answer 34

When a sentence begins with a warmup followed by a comma, the thing being described should come directly after the coma

Question 35

“The study indicates more men are working in education….

Answer 35

Correct: The study indicates THAT more men

Question 36

“mistook him for a spy”

Answer 36

Not “as” as spyy