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Liam's Grammar Practice Flashcards

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  1. What is A Sentence?
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A sentence is a group of words expressing a complete thought.

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  1. What are the two parts of every sentence?
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The Subject and predicate.

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  1. What is a subject?
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The Subject tells who or what the sentence is about.

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  1. What is a predicate?
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The predicate tells what the subject is or does

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  1. Give the four types of sentences classified by purpose with definitions.
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Declarative makes a statement.
Imperative makes a command or request.
Interrogative askes a question.
Exclamatory makes a strong feeling.

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  1. Give The 8 Parts Of Speech
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Noun, pronoun, adjective, verb, adverb, preposition, conjunction, interjection.

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  1. What is a noun?
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A person place thing or idea

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  1. Name the four ways nouns may be classified.
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Common or proper, concrete or abstract, collective, compound

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  1. What is a common noun?
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A non-specific noun.

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  1. What is a proper noun?
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A noun that names a specific thing

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  1. What is a concrete noun?
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Something that can be percieved by the senses.

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  1. What is an abstract noun?
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Something that cannot be percieved by the senses.

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  1. What is a compound noun?
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A noun made up of more than one word.

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  1. What is a collective noun?
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A collective noun names a group

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  1. Name and define the three grammar persons.
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First is person speaking, second is person being spoken to, third is person spoken about.

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  1. What is a pronoun?
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A word used in place of a noun.

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  1. Give the subject personal pronouns in three persons.
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I, we
you, yall
hsi, they

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  1. Give the object personal pronouns in three persons.
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me, us
you, yall
him her it, them

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  1. What is an adjective?
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A word that modifies a noun or pronoun.

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  1. Give the three question adjectives answer.
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Which one, what kind, how many.

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  1. Define article and give the three English articles.
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Words that signify nouns, a, an, the

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  1. What is an adverb?
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A word that modifies a verb, adjective, or other adverb.

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  1. Give the four questions adverbs answer.
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How, when, where, to what extent

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  1. What is a verb?
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A word that shows action or being.

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  1. What verb shows being or existence?
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The to be verb.

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  1. Give all forms of the to be verb.
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Am, are, is, was, were, being, been

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  1. What is a physical action verb?
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An action that can be perceived by the senses

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  1. What is a mental action verb?
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An action that cannot be perceived by the senses

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  1. What is a verb phrase?
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A phrase made up of a main verb and helping verbs.

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  1. Give the common helping verbs.
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am, are, is, was, being, been, have, has, had, do, does, did, may, might, must, can, could, will, would, shall, should, ought

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  1. Give the first three English verb tenses.
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Present, past, future

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  1. What are the names of the six English tenses?
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Present, past, future, present perfect, past perfect, future perfect

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  1. What parts of speech are NOT complements?
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Adverbs and prepositional phrases.

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  1. Give five difficulties in finding the subject.
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a. In sentences expressing a command or request the subject is always you.
b. To find the subject in a question, turn the question into a statement.
c. The subject of a sentence is never the prepositional phrase.
d. Here is tno the subject of a verb.
e. There and it are not subjects.

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  1. What are correlative conjunctions?
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The correlative conjunctions work in pairs to join words phrases or clauses of equal importance.

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