Language Use and Vocabulary Flashcards
This part of speech is a person, place, or thing.
Noun
This part of speech replaces a noun in a sentence.
Pronoun
This type of pronoun acts as a subject or object in a sentence.
Personal Pronouns
This type of pronoun indicates possession.
Possessive Pronoun
This type of pronoun intensifies a noun.
Intensive Pronoun
This type of pronoun reflect back upon a noun.
Reflexive Pronoun
This type of pronoun begins dependent clauses.
Relative Pronoun
This type of pronoun begins questions.
Interrogative Pronoun
This type of pronoun point out or draw attention to something or someone; indicate proximity or distance
Demonstrative Pronoun
This type of verb joins the subject to the subject complement.
Linking Verb
This type of verb takes an object.
Transitive Verb
This type of verb does not take an object.
Intransitive Verb
Identify the pronoun:
“I”
Subjective, First Person, Singular
Identify the pronoun:
“We”
Subjective, First Person, Plural
Identify the pronoun:
“You”
Subjective, Second Person, Singular
Identify the pronoun:
“You (all)”
Subjective, Second Person, Plural
Identify the pronoun:
“He, She, It”
Subjective, Third Person, Singular
Identify the pronoun:
“They”
Subjective, Third Person, Plural
Identify the pronoun:
“Me”
Objective, First Person, Singular
Identify the pronoun:
“Us”
Objective, First Person, Plural
Identify the pronoun:
“You”
Objective, Second Person, Singular
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“You (all)”
Objective, Second Person, Plural
Identify the pronoun:
“Him, Her, It”
Objective, Third Person, Singular
Identify the pronoun:
“Them”
Objective, Third Person, Plural
Identify the pronoun:
“My”
Possessive, First Person, Singular
Identify the pronoun:
“Our”
Possessive, First Person, Plural
Identify the pronoun:
“Your”
Possessive, Second Person, Singular and Plural
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“His, Her, Its”
Possessive, Third Person, Singular
Identify the pronoun:
“Their”
Possessive, Third Person, Plural
Identify the pronoun:
“Myself”
Reflexive/Intensive, First Person, Singular
Identify the pronoun:
“Ourselves”
Reflexive/Intensive, First Person, Plural
Identify the pronoun:
“Yourself”
Reflexive/Intensive, Second Person, Singular
Identify the pronoun:
“Yourselves”
Reflexive/Intensive, Second Person, Plural
Identify the pronoun:
“Himself, Herself, Itself”
Reflexive/Intensive, Third Person, Singular
Identify the pronoun:
“Themselves”
Reflexive/Intensive, Third Person, Plural
Identify the pronoun:
“Who, Which, That, Whose”
Relative Subjective Pronoun
Identify the pronoun:
“Whom, Which, That, Whose”
Relative Objective Pronoun
Identify the pronoun:
“Who, Whom, What, Where, When, Which, Why, How”
Interrogative Pronoun
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“This, These, That, Those”
Demonstrative Pronoun
Identify the pronoun:
“Each, Either, Everybody, Nobody, One, Neither, Anyone, Both, Few, Many, Several, Some, Most, More”
Indefinite Pronoun
Practice:
“Yesterday, I (laid/lay) on the couch for hours.”
“Lay”
Intransitive; does not take object
Practice:
“(Lying/Laying) the picture down, he smiled with admiration.”
“Laying”
Transitive; takes object
Practice:
“The city workers had (laid/lain) the plans for civiv center.”
“Laid”
Transitive; does not take object
Practice:
“(Lying/Laying) in the basket, the flowers dried beautifully.”
“Lying”
Intransitive; does not take object
Practice:
“For five years she (lay/laid) in a coma.”
“Lay”
Intransitive; does not take object
Identify the adjectives:
“Her camera fell into the turbulent water, so her frantic friend quickly grabbed the damp item.”
“Her, the, turbulent, her, frantic, the, damp”
Identify the pronoun:
“Several of the administrators who had spoken clearly on the budget increase gave both of the opposing committee members a list of their ideas.”
“Several, who, both”
Identify the conjunctions:
“The political parties do not know if the most popular candidates will survive until the election, but neither the voters nor the candidates will give up their push for popularity.”
“If (subordinating), but (coordinating), neither/nor (correlative)”
What are the 8 types of phrases?
Prepositional Phrase Verb phrase Noun phrase Appositive phrase Gerund phrase Participial phrase Infinitive phrase Absolute phrase
Identify the phrase type:
“The chef WOULD HAVE CREATED another souffle, but the staff protested.”
Verb Phrase
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“BEFORE BREAKFAST, I took the dog out.”
Prepositional Phrase
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“THE BIG, RED BARN rests beside THE VACANT CHICKEN HOUSE.”
Noun Phrase
Identify the phrase type:
“My dad, A CLOCK MAKER, loves antiques.
Appositive Phrase
Identify the phrase type:
“She is worried about BECOMING LIKE HER MOTHER.”
Gerund Phrase
Identify the phrase type:
“ENJOYING THE STARS THAT FILLED THE SKY, Dave lingered outside for quite a while.”
Participle Phrase
Identify the phrase type:
“Jon, KNOWN FOR HIS GOLF EXPERTISE, played in a Vero Beach tournament last month.”
Participle Phrase
Identify the phrase type:
I wanted TO SEE THE CHRISTMAS LIGHTS ON EACH HOME.”
Infinitive Phrase
Identify the phrase type:
“HER EYES CLOSING, Sandra laid her head down on the pillow, ready for a good night’s sleep.”
Absolute Phrase
This type of clause is introduced by subordinating conjunctions; they modify the independent clauses to which they are attached by answering adverb questions.
Adverb Clause
This type of clause is introduced by relative pronouns and relative adverbs; play vital role by filling the position of subject, object of a preposition, or direct object.
Noun Clause
This type of clause is introduced by relative pronouns and relative adverb; play a describing or modifying role; providing more information about a noun or pronoun
Adjective Clause
Identify the clause type:
BECAUSE SHE LOVES PIZZA, we took her to Pizza Plaza.
Adverb Clause
Identify the clause type:
She moved to the city AFTER HER CAR BROKE DOWN.
Adverb Clause
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WHEN SHE WILL MOVE has not been determined.
Noun Clause
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The judge ruled THAT SHE SHOULD GO TO JAIL.
Noun Clause
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He gave the prize to whomever she chose.
Noun Clause
Identify the clause type:
My dad, WHO BUILT CLOCKS, came from Sweden.
Adjective Clause
Identify the clause type:
The restaurant WHERE WE ATE serves salmon.
Adjective Clause = the relative adverb “where” introduces the adjective clause answering the question which restaurant.
This sentence type has 1 independent clause and 0 dependent clauses.
Simple Sentence
This sentence type has 2+ independent clause and 0 dependent clauses.
Compound Sentence
This sentence type has 1 independent clause and 1+ dependent clauses.
Complex Sentence
This sentence type has 2+ independent clause and 1+ dependent clauses.
Compound-Complex Sentence
Identify the sentence type:
The cat under the back porch jumped against the glass yesterday.
Simple Sentence THE CAT (under the back porch) JUMPED (against the glass) (yesterday).
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The cat under the back porch jumped against the glass yesterday, and he scared my grandma; he even scared my grandpa.
Compound Sentence THE CAT (under the back porch) JUMPED (against the glass) (yesterday), and HE SCARED my grandma; HE even SCARED my grandpa.
Identify the sentence type:
Cole, the cat under the porch who loves tuna, jumped against the glass yesterday.
Complex Sentence
Cole, THE CAT (under the porch), [WHO LOVES TUNA], JUMPED (against the glass) (yesterday).
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Cole, the cat under the porch who loves tuna, jumped against the glass yesterday; he left a mark on the window with his dirty nose.
Complex-Compound Sentence
Cole, THE CAT (under the porch), [WHO LOVES TUNA], JUMPED (against the glass) (yesterday); HE LEFT a mark (on the window) (with his dirty nose).
Identify the phrases:
WRAPPING PACKAGES FOR THE SOLDIERS, the kind woman tightly rolled the t-shirts TO SEE HOW MUCH SPACE remained FOR THE HOMEMADE COOKIES.
Participial, infinitive, and prepositional
