Grammer/Week 2

Question 1

Nouns that refer to unspecified people places or things

Answer 1

Common noun

Question 2

Nouns the refer to specific people places or things

Answer 2

Proper noun

Question 3

Nouns that name tangible things you can see, smell, touch, or hear.

Answer 3

Concrete nouns

Question 4

Nouns that refer to ideas, thoughts, feelings, and principles

Answer 4

abstract nouns

Question 5

Have ing’s that can turn verbs into nouns

Answer 5

gerunds

Question 6

These replace or stand in for a noun

Answer 6

pronoun

Question 7

Pronouns that act as subjects or objects, or they show possession. There are 26 of them

Answer 7

Personal pronouns

Question 8

Pronouns that introduce dependent clauses. These are clauses that cannot stand alone as a sentence because the thought they express in incomplete.

Answer 8

Relative

Question 9

A verb that show what a subject does

Answer 9

Action verb

Question 10

A verb the helps define or describe a subject

Answer 10

Linking Verb

Question 11

used with participle to form a verb phrase that references time

Answer 11

helping verb

Question 12

verbs that indicate the manner of, or the attitude toward, an action or the circumstances within a sentence.

Answer 12

modal verbs

Question 13

a group o fwords that has a subject, verb, and expresses a complete thought.

Answer 13

independent clause

Question 14

adverbs that indicate a relation or link between two independent clauses.

Answer 14

Conjunctive adverbs

Question 15

join words, phrases ideas, and independent clauses wiht equal emphasis

Answer 15

coordinating conjunctions

Question 16

a group of words that has a subject and verb but cannot stand alone because it doesn’t complete a full thought.

Answer 16

dependent clause

Question 17

A group of words that contains a noun or pronoun and any modifier

Answer 17

noun phrase

Question 18

A group of words that modifies a verb, adjective, adverb or entire sentence

Answer 18

adverbial phrase