Language Arts Trimester 1 Flashcards
noun:
person, place, thing, or idea
possessive:
showing ownership
anything ending with an “s”, add (‘) to make it….
possessive
1st person pronoun:
I, me my, mine, we, us, our, ours
2nd person pronoun:
you, your, yours
3rd person pronoun:
he, him, his, she, her, hers, it, its, they, them, their, theirs
the one who is speaking:
1st person
the one spoken to:
2nd person
spoken about:
3rd person
Reflexive Pronoun:
refer to the subject and is necessary to the basic meaning of the sentence
Intensive Pronoun:
emphasizes it’s antecedent and is unnecessary to the basic meaning of the sentence
demonstrative adjectives:
this
these
that
those
interrogative pronouns:
what which who whom whose
articles:
a, an, the
proper adj:
ex) Japanese
adj form of a country
indefinite pronouns:
refers to uncompletely known such as…
- somebody
- nobody
helping verb:
helps the main verb (or just verb) to express an action or state of being
a helping and main verb is called a ____ _____
verb phrase
Linking verbs from “Be”:
am | has been | may be is | have been | might be are | had been | can be was | will be | should be were | shall be | would have been
has=
singular
have=
plural
had=
past tense
predicate nominative:
a noun or a pronoun, that tells what or who the subject is (it can refer)
predicate adjective:
an adjective that follows a linking verb and describes the subject
Which is the linking verb][Which was the predicate adjective
I was very tired
lv: was
pred adj: tired