Grammer Test 1 Flashcards
A verb is a word that ______ ______, _____ another to the subject, _______ another verb, or merely ____ ____.
Shows action, links/ helps/ indicates existence
The action of a verb may be ____ or ____
Physical mental
Sometimes the verb is a single word, other times it is made up of two or more words called what?
Verb phrase
A verb phrase consists of what?
A main verb plus one or more helping verbs
A verb must be distinguished from what?
A verbal
Verbs may be called ____, ____, ____, or ______ according to their use in a sentence
Transitive
Intransitive
Linking (copulative)
Helping (auxiliary)
Which verb requires a receiver of its action in order to express a complete
Transitive
Which verb does not require a receiver to express a complete thought?
Intransitive
Which verb links a word in the predicate to the subject
Linking
What verb helps the main verb to make a statement
Helping
A noun names what
Person
Place
Thing
Idea
What type of noun names a person, place, thing, or idea, but does not say with particular one?
Common
What noun names a particular person, place, thing, or idea, and always begins with a capital letter?
Proper
What noun names whatever exists as a physical or material substance?
Concrete
What noun names a quality, state, activity, or general idea?
Abstract
What noun is two or more words used as a single noun?
Compound
What is another term that refers to any word, phrase, or clause that functions as a noun equivalent?
Substantive
What is a substantive that follows another substantive to explain or identify it
Appositive
T/F: An appositive may be compound
True
What is an appositive phrase
An appositive and all its modifiers
Nonessential appositives an appositive phrases are set off by what
Commas
What word takes the place of a noun
Pronoun
What is the word for which the pronouns stands?
Antecedent
What are the 7 different types of pronouns
Personal Reflexive Intensive Interrogative Demonstrative Relative
Which pronouns show by their form whether reference is made to the speaker, to the person spoken about
Personal
What are personal pronouns which add the suffix -self
Compound personal
