Language Use and Vocabulary Flashcards
(77 cards)
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This part of speech is a person, place, or thing.
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Noun
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This part of speech replaces a noun in a sentence.
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Pronoun
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This type of pronoun acts as a subject or object in a sentence.
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Personal Pronouns
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This type of pronoun indicates possession.
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Possessive Pronoun
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This type of pronoun intensifies a noun.
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Intensive Pronoun
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This type of pronoun reflect back upon a noun.
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Reflexive Pronoun
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This type of pronoun begins dependent clauses.
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Relative Pronoun
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This type of pronoun begins questions.
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Interrogative Pronoun
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This type of pronoun point out or draw attention to something or someone; indicate proximity or distance
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Demonstrative Pronoun
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This type of verb joins the subject to the subject complement.
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Linking Verb
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This type of verb takes an object.
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Transitive Verb
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This type of verb does not take an object.
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Intransitive Verb
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Identify the pronoun:
“I”
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Subjective, First Person, Singular
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Identify the pronoun:
“We”
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Subjective, First Person, Plural
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Identify the pronoun:
“You”
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Subjective, Second Person, Singular
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Identify the pronoun:
“You (all)”
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Subjective, Second Person, Plural
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Identify the pronoun:
“He, She, It”
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Subjective, Third Person, Singular
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Identify the pronoun:
“They”
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Subjective, Third Person, Plural
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Identify the pronoun:
“Me”
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Objective, First Person, Singular
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Identify the pronoun:
“Us”
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Objective, First Person, Plural
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Identify the pronoun:
“You”
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Objective, Second Person, Singular
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Identify the pronoun:
“You (all)”
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Objective, Second Person, Plural
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Identify the pronoun:
“Him, Her, It”
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Objective, Third Person, Singular
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Identify the pronoun:
“Them”
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Objective, Third Person, Plural
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Identify the pronoun:
| "My"
Possessive, First Person, Singular
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Identify the pronoun:
| "Our"
Possessive, First Person, Plural
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Identify the pronoun:
| "Your"
Possessive, Second Person, Singular and Plural
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Identify the pronoun:
| "His, Her, Its"
Possessive, Third Person, Singular
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Identify the pronoun:
| "Their"
Possessive, Third Person, Plural
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Identify the pronoun:
| "Myself"
Reflexive/Intensive, First Person, Singular
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Identify the pronoun:
| "Ourselves"
Reflexive/Intensive, First Person, Plural
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Identify the pronoun:
| "Yourself"
Reflexive/Intensive, Second Person, Singular
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Identify the pronoun:
| "Yourselves"
Reflexive/Intensive, Second Person, Plural
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Identify the pronoun:
| "Himself, Herself, Itself"
Reflexive/Intensive, Third Person, Singular
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Identify the pronoun:
| "Themselves"
Reflexive/Intensive, Third Person, Plural
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Identify the pronoun:
| "Who, Which, That, Whose"
Relative Subjective Pronoun
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Identify the pronoun:
| "Whom, Which, That, Whose"
Relative Objective Pronoun
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Identify the pronoun:
| "Who, Whom, What, Where, When, Which, Why, How"
Interrogative Pronoun
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Identify the pronoun:
| "This, These, That, Those"
Demonstrative Pronoun
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Identify the pronoun:
| "Each, Either, Everybody, Nobody, One, Neither, Anyone, Both, Few, Many, Several, Some, Most, More"
Indefinite Pronoun
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Practice:
| "Yesterday, I (laid/lay) on the couch for hours."
"Lay"
| Intransitive; does not take object
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Practice:
| "(Lying/Laying) the picture down, he smiled with admiration."
"Laying"
| Transitive; takes object
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Practice:
| "The city workers had (laid/lain) the plans for civiv center."
"Laid"
| Transitive; does not take object
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Practice:
| "(Lying/Laying) in the basket, the flowers dried beautifully."
"Lying"
| Intransitive; does not take object
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Practice:
| "For five years she (lay/laid) in a coma."
"Lay"
| Intransitive; does not take object
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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"
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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"
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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)"
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What are the 8 types of phrases?
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Prepositional Phrase
Verb phrase
Noun phrase
Appositive phrase
Gerund phrase
Participial phrase
Infinitive phrase
Absolute phrase
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Identify the phrase type:
| "The chef WOULD HAVE CREATED another souffle, but the staff protested."
Verb Phrase
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Identify the phrase type:
| "BEFORE BREAKFAST, I took the dog out."
Prepositional Phrase
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Identify the phrase type:
| "THE BIG, RED BARN rests beside THE VACANT CHICKEN HOUSE."
Noun Phrase
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Identify the phrase type:
| "My dad, A CLOCK MAKER, loves antiques.
Appositive Phrase
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Identify the phrase type:
| "She is worried about BECOMING LIKE HER MOTHER."
Gerund Phrase
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Identify the phrase type:
| "ENJOYING THE STARS THAT FILLED THE SKY, Dave lingered outside for quite a while."
Participle Phrase
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Identify the phrase type:
| "Jon, KNOWN FOR HIS GOLF EXPERTISE, played in a Vero Beach tournament last month."
Participle Phrase
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Identify the phrase type:
| I wanted TO SEE THE CHRISTMAS LIGHTS ON EACH HOME."
Infinitive Phrase
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Identify the phrase type:
| "HER EYES CLOSING, Sandra laid her head down on the pillow, ready for a good night's sleep."
Absolute Phrase
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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
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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
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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
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Identify the clause type:
| BECAUSE SHE LOVES PIZZA, we took her to Pizza Plaza.
Adverb Clause
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Identify the clause type:
| She moved to the city AFTER HER CAR BROKE DOWN.
Adverb Clause
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Identify the clause type:
| WHEN SHE WILL MOVE has not been determined.
Noun Clause
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Identify the clause type:
| The judge ruled THAT SHE SHOULD GO TO JAIL.
Noun Clause
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Identify the clause type:
| He gave the prize to whomever she chose.
Noun Clause
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Identify the clause type:
| My dad, WHO BUILT CLOCKS, came from Sweden.
Adjective Clause
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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.
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This sentence type has 1 independent clause and 0 dependent clauses.
Simple Sentence
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This sentence type has 2+ independent clause and 0 dependent clauses.
Compound Sentence
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This sentence type has 1 independent clause and 1+ dependent clauses.
Complex Sentence
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This sentence type has 2+ independent clause and 1+ dependent clauses.
Compound-Complex Sentence
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Identify the sentence type:
| The cat under the back porch jumped against the glass yesterday.
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Simple Sentence
THE CAT (under the back porch) JUMPED (against the glass) (yesterday).
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Identify the sentence type:
| The cat under the back porch jumped against the glass yesterday, and he scared my grandma; he even scared my grandpa.
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Compound Sentence
THE CAT (under the back porch) JUMPED (against the glass) (yesterday), and HE SCARED my grandma; HE even SCARED my grandpa.
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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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Identify the sentence type:
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).
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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
