GUM Unit 2

Question 0

What is a proper noun?

Answer 0

A word that names a particular person, place, or thing.

Ex: Chicago, Nina

Question 1

What is a common noun?

Answer 1

A word that names ANY person, place, or thing.

Ex: desk, couch

Question 2

What is a singular noun?

Answer 2

A noun that names one person, place, or thing.

Ex: chair, fish

Question 3

What is a plural noun?

Answer 3

A noun that names more than one person, place, or thing.

Ex: books, deer, women

Question 4

What is a possessive noun?

Answer 4

A noun that shows ownership.

Ex: mom’s, tables’

Question 5

What is a pronoun?

Answer 5

A word to take place of a noun.

Ex: “it” instead of “the animal”

Question 6

What is a personal pronoun?

Answer 6

Pronouns that refer to you or other people.
Ex: you: I, me, we, us
Others: she, her, it them

Question 7

What is a compound personal pronoun?

Answer 7

A personal pronoun that ends in “self.”

Ex: myself, itself, yourself

Question 8

What is a possessive pronoun?

Answer 8

A pronoun that shows possession.

Ex: her, his, my, our, its, your

Question 9

What is an interrogative pronoun?

Answer 9

Pronouns that are used in questions.

Ex: who, whom, which, whose, what

Question 10

What is an indefinite pronoun?

Answer 10

Pronouns that don’t refer to a specific person.

Ex: all, anybody, everyone, few, most, nobody, either

Question 11

What is an action verb?

Answer 11

A verb that shows action.

Ex: jump, kick, read, write

Question 12

What is a linking verb?

Answer 12

A verb that does not show action. It connects the subject to the words that rename the subject.
Ex: am, is, are, appear, seem

Question 13

What is a present tense verb?

Answer 13

A verb that is happening in the present.

Ex: carry, makes, gives

Question 14

What is a past tense verb?

Answer 14

A verb that has already happened.

Ex: sat, slept, walked

Question 15

What is a future tense verb?

Answer 15

A verb that is going to happen.

Ex: will sleep, will discover

Question 16

What is the present perfect tense of a verb?

Answer 16

When the verb shows action that started in the past and was recently completed or still is happening. Always has the words: has or have in front of it.
Ex: has spoken, have read

Question 17

What is the past perfect tense of a verb?

Answer 17

A verb that was completed in the past. Always has word: had in front of it.
Ex: had cooked, had seen

Question 18

What is the progressive form of a verb?

Answer 18

Verbs that show continuing action. Always has -ing.

Ex: reading, looking

Question 19

What is the present progressive form of a verb?

Answer 19

Has the helping verbs: am, is, are in front of the main verb.
Ex: I am eating, they are working

Question 20

What is the past progressive from of a verb?

Answer 20

Has the helping verbs: was or were in front of it.

Ex: I was looking, we were doing

Question 21

What is the future progressive form of a verb?

Answer 21

Has will be in front of it.

Ex: I will be sitting

Question 22

What is an adjective?

Answer 22

A word that describes nouns and pronouns.

Ex: pretty, few

Question 23

What is an adverb?

Answer 23

A word that describes verbs or adjectives.

Ex: quickly, often

Question 24

What is a preposition?

Answer 24

A word that shows the relationship between words.

Ex: into, above, below

Question 25

What is a coordinating conjunction?

Answer 25

A word that connects words that are similar.

Ex: and, but, or

Question 26

What is a subordinating conjunction?

Answer 26

Words that show the relationship of two words.

Ex: although, because, if, since