How English Works Flashcards
What is the basic structure of a sentence?
Sogg + predicate.
Eg: the dog eats food.
The dog is the subject and the predicate is about what the subject is doing.
What is and how is composed the predicate of a sentence?
The predicate is the telling part of a sentence. It refers about a subject.
It’s composed with:
Verb + object.
Eg: (the dog) runs down the street.
Runs = verb
Street = object
What is a noun?
A noun is a person, place or thing.
What is a proper noun?
It is a specific name, not common. Eg: Mario.
List which kind of verbs there are
- Action verbs.
- Helping verbs (she is standing).
Is = Helping verb
standing = main verb. - Modal verbs. They give information about possibility.
Which are the two categories of transitive verbs?
Monotransitive and ditransitive
What is a transitive verb?
It’s a verb that has at least one object.
There are two kind of objects:
direct objects: who or what is receiving the action;
indirect objects: nouns or pronouns affected by the action. And indirect object aswers the question of to whom, for whom, of for what.
What is a direct object?
It’s what or who is receiving the action.
Eg: Jeff kicked the ball.
What is an indirect object?
Which questions it answers?
It’s a nouns or pronouns affected by the action. And indirect object aswers the question of to whom, for whom, of for what.
Eg: Jeff gave Dan the cake.
Dan is the indirect object.
The Cake is the direct object (what is receiving the action).
What is a monotransitive sentence?
It’s a sentence with this structure:
subject + verb + object
What is a ditransitive sentence?
It’s a sentence with this structure:
subject + verb + indirect object + direct object
What is an intransitive verb?
It’s a verb whose action cannot transferred from the subject to an object.
Eg: She cried.
What is a linking verb?
It’a a verb that links the subject to the subject complement.
The subject complement is a noun or an adjective.
Eg.
Eric is a doctor.
Subject + verb + subject complement.
What is an adverb?
Adverb are words that describe a verb, adding more detail to it.
Eg: The dog runs quickly.
What are prepositions?
They are words that we use to show the relationship between other words.
They give us information about time, location or movement.
(down the street)
(on the street)
(he walks to work)
