Intro to Lit (S1) Flashcards
What type of sentence gives a command?
Imperative
What type of sentence is a statement?
Declarative
What type of sentence asks a question?
Interrogative
What type of sentence shows strong emotion?
Exclamatory
Which word is the subject: My eight grade teacher didn’t teach us sentences.
teacher
What is the verb: My sister and I are going to a Christmas party tomorrow.
are
What are the verbs: I can run or hide from scary people.
run and hide
Which sentence structure fits the sentence: The president of Israel functions as the head of state.
Subject-Action Verb
Which sentence structure fits the sentence: The president serves a five-year term
Subject-Action Verb-Direct Object
What makes a clause dependent?
A subordinating conjunction at the beginning
What is a noun?
A person, place, thing, or idea
Which of the following is a proper noun?
- Clam Chowder
- dog
- hatred
- Governor Reynolds
Governor Reynolds
Which of the following is a plural noun
- cat
- geese
- class
- President Trump
Geese
Which of the following is a singular possessive noun?
- Classes’
- Kaitlyn’s
- Stories’
- Geese
Kaitlyn’s
Make this possessive: the parents of Hannah
Hannah’s parents
What is a collective noun?
A noun the includes many things
What is the function of the word “teacher” in this sentence: Mr Nikkel is a great teacher.
Predicate Noun
What is a compound noun?
A noun that is 2 words put together
What is the function of the word “Mr Nikkel” in this sentence: Mr Nikkel is a great teacher.
Subject
What is the function of the word “test” in this sentence: The final, the hardest test ever, is tomorrow.
Appositive
What is the function of the word “staff” in this sentence: The memo gave our staff a reason to celebrate.
Indirect Object
What is the function of the word “reason” in this sentence: The memo gave our staff a reason to celebrate.
Direct Object
What is the function of the word “John” in this sentence: John, please pay attention!
Noun of direct address
What is an antecedent?
A word that is replaced by a pronoun
What is the difference between nouns and pronouns?
Nouns are people, places, things, or ideas while pronouns replace nouns.
What is the function of the word “ours” in this sentence: I am so glad that the flag is ours.
Predicate Adjective
What part of speech besides nouns can be subjects?
Pronouns
Independent, Dependent, or a Phrase: Since we started it yesterday
Dependent
Independent, Dependent, or a Phrase: I will start Health next semester.
Independent
What is the sentence pattern of the following sentence: My parents gave my brother a new car
Subject-Action Verb-Indirect Object-Direct Object
What is the sentence pattern of the following sentence: The class is excited to visit the Lincoln Memorial.
Subject-Linking Verb-Predicate Adjective
What is the sentence pattern of the following sentence: My father has been a marathon runner for many years.
Subject-Linking Verb-Predicate Noun
What is the sentence pattern of the following sentence: I ran into the wall.
Subject-Action Verb
What is the sentence pattern of the following sentence: Don’t underestimate me.
Subject-Action Verb-Direct Object
What is the sentence pattern of the following sentence: To prove to myself that I could do it, I committed to eating healthy.
Subject-Action Verb
What type of verb is being used in the sentence: Compared to other storms, tornadoes are particularly destructive.
Linking
What type of verb is being used in the sentence: The United States is the most common location of tornadoes in the world.
Linking
What type of verb is being used in the sentence: This change vies a normal thunderstorm a possibly dangerous aspect.
Action
What type of verb is being used in the sentence: The strongest tornado-producing thunderstorms are supercells.
Linking
What type of verb is being used in the sentence: Before the formation of a tornado, an upper-level disturbance occurs above the earth’s surface.
Action
What tense is the verb in the sentence: God will teach us about His power in His Word.
Future
What tense is the verb in the sentence: God created the world in six days.
Past
What tense is the verb in the sentence: God created the world in six days.
Present
What tense is the verb in the sentence: According to Matthew, Jesus will come like lightning.
Future
What tense is the verb in the sentence: The psalms also speak of lightning.
Present
What tense is the verb in the sentence: Some of these forms have been a curiosity for scientific study.
Present Perfect
What tense is the verb in the sentence: By the end of this chapter, you will have learned more about lightning.
Future Perfect
What tense is the verb in the sentence: Before the advent of scientific study, the Greeks and Romans had thought that lightning was a weapon of the gods.
Past Perfect
What tense is the verb in the sentence: Before the end of the next thunderstorm, lightning will probably have struck somewhere.
Future Perfect
What tense is the verb in the sentence: How have people learned about lightning?
Present Perfect
What tense is the capitalized verb in the sentence: Our class HAS BEEN PLANNING the trip for several months?
Present Perfect Progressive
What tense is the capitalized verb in the sentence: At the end of the semester, my science class WILL HAVE BEEN STUDYING weather for four weeks?
Future Perfect Progressive
What tense is the capitalized verb in the sentence: Yesterday before the end of class, we WERE LOOKING at weather safety.
Past Progressive
What tense is the capitalized verb in the sentence: Yesterday before the end of class, we WERE LOOKING at weather safety.
Future Progressive
What does an adjective modify?
Nouns and pronouns
What does an adverb modify?
Verbs, other adverbs, and adjectives
Which word is an adjective?
Aubrey’s yellow hat jumped.
yellow
Which word is an adjective?
Mr Morton’s strong hands helped to open the jar.
strong
Which word is an adjective?
The chaotic badger tore through the trash
chaotic
Which word is an adverb?
The team successfully won the game
successfully
Which word is an adverb?
I will not be attending school next week
not
Which word does the adjective MODIFY? “Micro-organisms are certainly interesting.”
Micro-organisms
Which word does the adjective MODIFY? “I’m not considering a biological job though.”
job
Which word does the adjective MODIFY? “Your cowardly partner can leave this at once!”
partner
“She isn’t afraid of (anything, nothing).”
anything
“I (am, are) not interested in whatever you are selling.”
am
“Engineers have (great, greatly) reduced the hazards of living in space.”
greatly
“Of all the planets, Pluto was the (most difficult, more difficult) to find.”
most difficult
“Comparing Saturn and Venus, we find that Venus is the (brighter, brightest) planet.”
brighter
Make this possessive: the successes of our team
team’s successes
What is a possessive noun?
A noun that shows possession
What is a plural noun?
A noun naming several things
What is a proper noun?
A specific noun
Independent, dependent, or phrase: Because we are all human.
Dependent
Independent, dependent, or phrase: having given all to the collective purpose
Phrase
What type of verb is capitalized in the sentence: My friends and I ARE helping with the relief effort.
Helping
What type of verb is capitalized in the sentence: When the tornado came through here and it WAS destroying homes, it didn’t destroy lives.
Helping
What type of verb is capitalized in the sentence: My parents WERE preparing the house for a week before the hurricane came.
Helping
What type of verb is capitalized in the sentence: My experience with the storm WAS brief.
Linking
What type of verb is capitalized in the sentence: By the time it reached us, it WASN’T threatening.
Linking
Which word does the adjective MODIFY? “Have you seen my backpack anywhere?”
backpack
Which word does the adjective MODIFY? “The show gave us something to think about.”
show
Which word does the adverb MODIFY? “Partners on projects often mistrust one another.”
mistrust
Which word does the adverb MODIFY? “I really need to go. I am late for a meeting.”
need
Which word does the adverb MODIFY? “Could quickly give me an idea of what if happening?”
give
Which word does the adjective MODIFY? “Sure, everyone has made mistakes in their past.”
past
Which word does the adverb MODIFY? “I am not taking requests right now.”
taking
Which word is the subject: Since the beginning of the year, my teacher and my classmates have all decided to study hard.
teachers, classmates
What is the verb: For the last eighteen days, I have been training for a marathon.
training
Which sentence structure fits the sentence: The struggle and survival of soldiers in combat has been documented throughout history.
Subject-Action Verb
Which of the following is a singular possessive pronoun?
- I
- My
- Their
- Our
my
Which of the following is a 3rd person pronoun?
- Me
- He
- You
- Your
He
Independent, dependent, or phrase: Give me one good reason to listen
Independent
Independent, Dependent, or Phrase: The wonderful world of Mr. Mago and his magical friends
Phrase
Independent, Dependent, or Phrase: running through fields of opportunity and dreams
Phrase
Independent, Dependent, or Phrase: Since we are sharing anyway
Dependent
Active or Passive: The drill sergeant yelled loudly in my face.
Active
Active or Passive: The fire cascaded down the mountain in the California valley.
Active
Active or Passive: The trees were consumed by the blaze in a matter of hours.
Passive
Active or Passive: My hometown was ravaged by wildfires years ago.
Passive
Active or Passive: My dad packed all our belongings in the dead of night.
Active
