Mid term Flashcards
A sentence that asks something and ends with ?
Interrogative sentence
A sentence that shows strong feeling and ends with an!
Exclamatory
A sentence that commands someone to do something and ends with a period
Imperative
The part of the sentence that names who or what the sentence is about
Subject
The part of the sentence tells what the subject does or has
Predicate
A sentence that does not express a complete thought.It may be missing a subject,predicate or both
Sentence fragment
The subject that includes all the words in the subject of a sentence
Complete Subject
The predicate that includes all of the words in the predicate of a sentence
Complete Predicate
The subject that is the main word or group of words in the complete subject
Simple Subject
The predicate that is the main word or group of words in the complete predicate
Simple predicate
The subject that has two or more subjects that have the same predicate. The subjects are joined by and,or,but
Compound subject
The predicate that has two or more verbs that have the same subject. these verbal are joined by and,or,but
Compound Predicate
A sentence that contains two or more simple sentences
Ex)Nat boarded the ship, and the crowd waved
Compound sentence
A sentence that has one main clause and one or more subordinate clauses
Ex)the captain spoke to Nat, who had boarded the ship
Complex sentence
A sentence that has two or more sentences incorrectly written as one sentence
Run-on sentence
A noun that names any,person,place, thing or idea
Common noun
A noun that names a specific person,place,thing, or idea
Proper noun
A word that names a person, place,thing or idea
Noun
A noun that names one person place or thing
Singular Noun
A noun that names more then one person,place or thing
Plural Noun
A noun that names a group of people or things
Collective Noun
A noun that names who or what has something
Possessive Noun
A sentence that makes a statement or tells something. It ends with a period
Declarative sentence
A verb that names an action
Action Verb
The _________ receives the action of the verb. It answers yew question whom or what after the action verb
Direct object
A verb that has a direct object
Transitive verb
The verb that does not have a direct object
Intransitive verb
A ________ answers the question to whom?or for whom?the action was done
Indirect object
The verb that connects the subject of the sentence with a noun or an adjective in the predicate
Linking verb
A noun that follows a linking verb and tells what the subject is
Predicate Noun
An adjective that follows a linking verb and tells what the subject is like
Predicate Adjective
This tense of a verb names an action that happens regularly
Present tense
The tense of a verb that names an action that already happened
Past tense
The tense of a verb names an action that will take place in the future
Future tense
A verb that helps the main verb tell about an action or statement
Helping Verb
A ______ consists of one or more helping verbs followed by a main verb
Verb Phrase
The_______ of a verb tells about an action that is continuing right now
Present progressive form
The________ of a verb names an action that continued for some time in the past
Past progressive form
The _______ of a verb tells about something that happened at an indefinite time in the past
Present perfect tense
The _______ of a verb names an action that happened before another action or event in the past
Past perfect tense
