Key Elements & Definitions Of Grammer

Question 1

Names A person, place, or thing

Answer 1

Noun

Question 2

Indicates who or what “Performs” the action of a sentence as in: I, you, he, she, it, they, and we are subjects

Answer 2

Subject Pronoun

Question 3

Indicates who and what “receives” action me, you, him her, it, is and them are objects

Answer 3

Object pronoun

Question 4

Names person place or thing.

Answer 4

Singular noun

Question 5

Names more than one

Answer 5

Plural noun

Question 6

Shows ownership

Answer 6

Possessive noun

Question 7

Tell what kind of, which one, or how many

Answer 7

Adjective

Question 8

Tells how, where, when, and to what extent

Answer 8

Adverb

Question 9

Word that expresses action or a state of being

Answer 9

Verb

Question 10

The sentence part that says something about the subject. It contains the verb or verb phrase

Answer 10

Predicate

Question 11

Is a noun that follows an action verb. It receives the action

Answer 11

Direct Object

Question 12

Shows the time of action: past, present and future

Answer 12

Tense of a verb

Question 13

Are used to separate items in a series, to separate parts of dates, to separate parts of names

Answer 13

Commas

Question 14

Are used to separate hours and minutes in time or to introduce a list and follow a business letter

Answer 14

Colons

Question 15

Are used to separate independent clauses in a sentence

Answer 15

Semicolons

Question 16

Are used to show that information is not part of the main statement

Answer 16

Parentheses

Question 17

Used to show the beginning and end of someone’s exact words

Answer 17

Quotations marks

Question 18

A group of words that express a complete thought; has a subject and a predicate

Answer 18

Sentence

Question 19

A sentence that expresses only one complete thought

Answer 19

Simple sentence

Question 20

Made up of 2 simple sentences joined by a comma and the word and, but, or or

Answer 20

Compound sentence

Question 21

A word group that has no subject or predicate or does not express a complete thought

Answer 21

Sentence fragment

Question 22

Consists of 2 or more sentences joins without a conjunction

Answer 22

Run-on sentence

Question 23

Another name for a simple sentence

Answer 23

Independent clause

Question 24

Has a subject and verb but cannot stand alone as a sentence for it has no complete thought

Answer 24

Dependent clause

Question 25

consist of one independent clause and one more dependent clause

Answer 25

Complex sentence

Question 26

Consist of 2 or more independent clause and at least one independent clause

Answer 26

Compound-complex sentence