HESI Evolve Grammar

Question 1

noun

Answer 1

person, place or thing

Question 2

common noun

Answer 2

not in particular (nurse, hospital)

Question 3

proper noun

Answer 3

official name (Jack, Paris)

Question 4

Abstract noun

Answer 4

general idea (democracy)

Question 5

Collective noun

Answer 5

group (family, flock, furniture)

Question 6

pronoun

Answer 6

word that takes the place of a noun (their and them)

Question 7

antecendent

Answer 7

the word to which the pronoun is describing

Question 8

possessive pronoun

Answer 8

shows ownership (MY book)

Question 9

Adjective

Answer 9

modifies the noun (BLUE book)

Question 10

verb

Answer 10

expresses action

Question 11

adverb

Answer 11

describes the verb (the physician operates QUICKLY)

Question 12

preposition

Answer 12

shows relationship of the noun or pronoun to another word in the sentence (Sam left the classroom AT NOON)

Question 13

conjunction

Answer 13

word that joins words. (and, but, or)

Question 14

correlative conjunctions

Answer 14

work in pairs (neither, nor) (either or)

Question 15

interjection

Answer 15

expresses emotion (yikes)

Question 16

interjection

Answer 16

expresses emotion (yikes)

Question 17

clause

Answer 17

group of words that has a subject and a predicate

Question 18

independent clause

Answer 18

expresses a complete thought and can stand alone (THE PROFESSOR DISTRIBUTED EXAMINATIONS as soon as the students were seated)

Question 19

Dependent clause

Answer 19

begins with subordinating conjunction

Question 20

subordinating conjunctions

Answer 20

after, because, before, until, since, when

Question 21

direct object

Answer 21

person or thing that is directly affected by the action of the verb (The students watched the professor) whom did they watch??

Question 22

indirect object

Answer 22

person or thing indirectly affected by the verb (The professor gave his class the test results) to whom did he give them to?

Question 23

phrase

Answer 23

group of two or more words that acts as a single part of speech in a sentence.

Question 24

predicate

Answer 24

part of the sentence that tells what the subject does or what is done to the subject.

Question 25

predicate

Answer 25

part of the sentence that tells what the subject does or what is done to the subject.

Question 26

predicate adjective

Answer 26

describes the subject

Question 27

4 types of sentences

Answer 27

declarative interrogatve imperative exclamatory

Question 28

declarative sentence

Answer 28

I went to the store

Question 29

interrogative sentence

Answer 29

did you go to the store?

Question 30

imperative sentence

Answer 30

go to the store

Question 31

exclamatory

Answer 31

you went to the store!

Question 32

subject

Answer 32

word that names who the sentence is about

Question 33

a singular subject requires

Answer 33

a singular verb

Question 34

euphemism

Answer 34

mild, indirect or vague