Parts Of Speech

Question 1

What is a noun? What is a proper noun?

Answer 1

A noun is a person, place, or thing. It can act as a subject or object.
Proper noun is a capitalized name.

Question 2

What is a Pronoun?

Answer 2

A pronoun replaces a noun that has already been specified.
She, her, us, it, they, this…

Question 3

What is a adjective?

Answer 3

A adjective describes a noun and answers questions, “which one” and/or “what kind”.
Purple couch, big house

Question 4

What is a Article?

Answer 4

Definitives of a noun. There are exactly 3 - a, an, the

Question 5

What is a Verb?

Answer 5

Describes an action or state of being.
Action verb - run, sleep, talk
Statue of being verb - was, has, did, are, am

Question 6

What is a Adverb?

Answer 6

Describes a verb, adjective, or another adverb.
He ran slowly - describing an verb - “ly”
He did very well, it was quite a big cake- describing an adjective - “intensive”
She did exceptionally well - describing another adverb

Question 7

What is a Conjuction?
What are the three types?

Answer 7

Words that connect parts of a sentence - joins/links clauses.
Coordinating conjuction, subordinating conjunction, and conjunctive adverb.

Question 8

What is a Coordinating Conjunction?

Answer 8

They join clauses of equal importances - either two dependent or two independent clauses.
Can not start sentences but can start independent clauses.
FANBOYS - For(as in because), and, nor, but, or, yet, so
They usually follow a comma.

Question 9

What is a Subordinating Conjunction?

Answer 9

They join unequal clauses together - link dependent clauses with independent clauses.
Although, because, as, if, since, unless…
Some can start sentences.

Question 10

What is a Conjunctive Adverb?

Answer 10

Adverbs that function as conjunctions, joining two complete sentences together in one.
They always occur after a semi-colon or followed by a comma.
However, moreover, meanwhile…

Question 11

What is a Semi-colon?

Answer 11

Interchangeable with a period - joins independent clauses

Question 12

What is a Clause?

Answer 12

A part of a sentence containing both a subject and a verb.
Dividing into two categories - independent and dependent clause

Question 13

What is a main/independent clause?

Answer 13

Can stand on their own as sentences - stand a subject or verb on its own

Question 14

What is a Subordinate/Dependent clause?

Answer 14

It can not stand on its own as sentences

Question 15

What is a Phrase?

Answer 15

A group of words that lacks a subject or a verb or both.
They can not stand on their own as sentences but provide modifying information in a clause and can act as nouns

Question 16

What is a Preposition?

Answer 16

Indicates relative position.
Under, beneath, through, on, before…

Question 17

What is a Interjection?

Answer 17

Outburst - anything in quotient marks
“Ouch” …

Question 18

What is a comma splice?

Answer 18

Occurs when two independent clauses or complete sentences are separated by only a comma.

Question 19

What is a sentence fragment?

Answer 19

They are dependent clause that are not attached to an independent.
Because of the rain…

Question 20

Possessive Pronoun

Answer 20

Note that her is unusual, as it can be either a pronoun (“Give the coat to her”) or a possessive adjective (“Is that her coat?”)

Question 21

Why is not a adverb?

Answer 21

Because it modifies and changes the meaning of the verb

Question 22

What are possessive adjectives?

Answer 22

My, your, his, her, its, our, their and whose