Parts of speech

Question 1

Noun

Answer 1

a person, place, thing, or idea

Question 2

Common noun

Answer 2

Names a general noun, begins with a lower case letter.

Question 3

Personal pronouns

Answer 3

1st person-pronouns having to do with me. 3rd person- pronouns having to do with you.
3rd person-pronouns having to do with everyone else.

Question 4

Possessive personal pronoun

Answer 4

A pronoun indicating possession, for example mine, yours, hers, theirs

Question 5

Adverb

Answer 5

A word or phrase the modifies or qualifies an adjective, verb, or other advert or word group, expressing a relation of place, time, circumstance, manner, cause, degree, etc

Question 6

Articles

Answer 6

A word that goes before a noun such as a, an, and the

Question 7

Conjunction

Answer 7

A word used to connect clauses or sentences or to coordinate words in the same clause, like and, but, if

Question 8

Coodinating

Answer 8

A conjunction placed between words, phrases, clauses, or sentences, like and, but, or

Question 9

Action verb

Answer 9

A verb that expresses something that a person, animal, object, or process in nature

Question 10

Present tense

Answer 10

A tense expressing an action that is currently going on or habitually performed

Question 11

Verbal

Answer 11

Relating to, or in the form of words

Question 12

Participle

Answer 12

A word formed from a verb, such as going, gone, being, been, etc, and used as an adjective or a noun

Question 13

Simple subject

Answer 13

A subject that has just one noun as the focus of the sentence

Question 14

Complete subject

Answer 14

Has to have a subject and a verb and the verb has to be finite

Question 15

Simple predicate

Answer 15

The basic word or words that explain what specific action the subject of the sentence is doing

Question 16

Transitive verb

Answer 16

Of a verb able to take a direct object (expressed or implied)

Question 17

Intransitive verb

Answer 17

A verb that doesn’t require a direct object, to indicate the person or thing acted upon.

Question 18

Complete predicate

Answer 18

All the words in a sentence or clause except the subject and words that describe the subject.

Question 19

Compliment

Answer 19

A word, phrase or clause that is necessary to complete the meaning of a given expression.

Question 20

Direct object

Answer 20

A noun phrase denoting a person or thing that is the recipient of the action of a transitive verb.

Question 21

Prepositional phrase

Answer 21

A group of words that begin with a preposition and ends with a noun, pre noun, or noun phrase

Question 22

Object of the preposition

Answer 22

A noun or pronoun that comes after a preposition

Question 23

Clause

Answer 23

A sentence in rank and in traditional grammar said to consist of a subject and predicate.

Question 24

Independent clause

Answer 24

A clause that can stand by itself as a simple sentence

Question 25

Compound sentence

Answer 25

A sentence with more than one subject

Question 26

Imperative sentence

Answer 26

A sentence that expresses a direct command, request, invitations, warning, or instruction

Question 27

Capitalization

Answer 27

The action of writing or printing in capital letters or with an intial capital

Question 28

Possessive noun

Answer 28

Shows ownership

Question 29

Past tense

Answer 29

Happened previously

Question 30

Declarative sentence

Answer 30

Makes a statement and ends in a period

Question 31

Semicolon

Answer 31

Joins 2 independent clause, can be used in series with commas for clarity, and can be used in a compound sentence

Question 32

Apostrophe

Answer 32

Used to make words possessive, and to make contractions

Question 33

Nominative personal pronoun

Answer 33

Singular - I, you, he, she, it
Plural - we, you, they

Question 34

Participle phrase

Answer 34

Participle plus its modifier and objects

Question 35

Object of the participle

Answer 35

Follows participle and tells “what”

Question 36

Simple sentence

Answer 36

One independent clause

Question 37

Proper noun

Answer 37

Names a specific noun; begins with a
Capital letter

Question 38

Relative pronoun

Answer 38

Starts and adj dependent clause, that, which, who, whom, whose

Question 39

Demonstrative pronoun

Answer 39

Demonsrates which one, this, that, these, those

Question 40

Linking verb

Answer 40

Links two words together, is, be, am, are, was, were, been, being, appear, become, feel, grow, look, remain, seem, smell, sound, stay, taste, etc/

Question 41

Interjection

Answer 41

Expresses emotion but has no real connection in the sentence

Question 42

Predicate nominative

Answer 42

Is a noun or pronoun, follows a linking verb, and renames the subject

Question 43

Dependent clause

Answer 43

Can never stand alone, starts with a relative pronoun, a subordinating conjunction, or a noun clause identifier

Question 44

Adj dependent clause

Answer 44

usually starts with a relative pronoun, acts like an adjective

Question 45

Complex sentence

Answer 45

One independent clause = one or more dependent clause

Question 46

Exclamatory sentence

Answer 46

Expresses a strong feeling and ends in an exclamation mark

Question 47

Quotation marks

Answer 47

Quotes titles, etc, quotes dialogue, etc

Question 48

Pronoun

Answer 48

Takes the place of a noun

Question 49

Adjective

Answer 49

Modifies a noun, tells which on, how many, and what kind

Question 50

Preposition

Answer 50

shows a relationship between a noun or pronoun and some other word in a sentence

Question 51

Objective personal pronoun

Answer 51

Singular- me, you, him, her, it
Plural- us, you, them

Question 52

Helping verb

Answer 52

Helps an action verb or linking verb

Question 53

Interrogate sentence

Answer 53

Asks a question and ends in a question mark