Parts of Speech

Question 1

Noun

Answer 1

A noun simply gives the name of a person (Sam, man), place (Dallas, city), thing (Toyota, car), or idea (philosophy, warmth, love).

Question 2

Some nouns are capitalized, some aren’t.

Answer 2

PROPER NOUNS are capitalized. Common nouns aren’t.

Question 3

Nouns are divided into several categories

Answer 3

Concrete: name things seen, felt, heard touched, or smelled (water, star, album).
Abstract: concepts, beliefs, or qualities (freedom, capitalism).
Count nouns: person, places, things countable (3 cars, 66 horns).
Non count nouns (unease, happiness),
Collective nouns: sometimes counted as 1 unit and sometimes counted separately (Army, herd, pack, family).

Question 4

In a sentence, a noun will act either as a ____________ or ______________ .

Answer 4

Subject or some type of complement (predicate nominative, direct or indirect object of a verb, or object of a preposition).

Question 5

Pronouns

Answer 5

Take the place of nouns.

Question 6

Types of Pronouns

Answer 6

Personal Pronouns: represent people or things: I, me, you, he
Possessive: show ownership: mine, yours, hers, theirs, ours, his
Demonstrative: demonstrate or point out someone or something: this, that, these, those.
Relative: relate one part of the sentence to another: who, whom, which, that, whose.
Reflexive: reflect back: myself, yourself, himself, itself, ourselves.
Interrogative: ask a question: who, whom, which, whose, what.
Indefinite: any, each, either, everybody, several, some, something

Question 7

Adjectives

Answer 7

Adjective is a word that modifies a noun or pronoun.
Which one?
What kind of?
How many?

Question 8

a, an, the are called __________________ .

Answer 8

Articles. a and an are indefinite articles, the is definite article.

Question 9

Other than articles, name another subcategory of adjectives.

Answer 9

Determiners. These are adjectives that make specific the sense of a noun; they help determine to which particular units the nouns are referring (e.g., the country, those apples, seven pencils).

Question 10

Verbs

Answer 10

A verb is defined a a word that expresses action or being.

Question 11

Action verbs can be divided into two categories: _______________ and ___________________.

Answer 11

Transitive, intransitive

Transitive: a verb that takes an object

Question 12

Being Verbs. Some are linking verbs some are ______________ verbs.

Answer 12

Copulative. appear, feel, look, remain, smell, stay, become, grow, prove, seem, sound, taste
If you can substitute a form of be (was, is, am and so on) and the sentence make sense, you’ve got a linking verb.
The soup tasted spicy. The soup “is” spicy. LINKING!

Question 13

Helping or __________________ verb.

Answer 13

auxiliary verb. It “can” join the main verb (becoming the helper of the main verb) to express the tense, mood, and voice of the verb: be, do, have, can, may, and so on

Question 14

In English there are four principal parts of verbs:

Answer 14

The present infinitive (which you see as the main entry in a dictionary), the past tense, the past participle, and the present participle.

Question 15

Adverb is _______________________________________________.

Answer 15

a word that modifies a verb, adjective, or other adverbs.
	How?		Under what circumstances?
	When?		How much?
	Where?		How often?
	Why?		To what extent?

Question 16

Conjunctive Adverbs do what?

Answer 16

They join independent clauses in one sentence.
accordingly furthermore instead next
also hence likewise otherwise
besides however meanwhile still
consequently incidentally moreover therefore
finally indeed nevertheless thus

Question 17

A small group of adverbs known as ____________________ or

___________________ increase the intensity of the adjectives and other adverbs they modify.

Answer 17

Intensifiers or qualifiers. Very is the most common intensifier. Other examples: awfully, extremely, kind of, more, most, pretty, quite, rather, really, somewhat, sort of, and too.

Question 18

In writing comparison, you can use one of three different forms (called degrees) of adjectives and adverbs: ________________ , ___________________ , and ________________________.

Answer 18

Positive: simply makes a statement about a person, place, or thing.
Comparative Degree: compares two (but only tow) people, places or things.
Superlative Degree: compares more than two.

Question 19

Preposition is a word that _________________________________ .

Answer 19

links a noun or pronoun to some other word in a sentence.

Jack went up the hill. (Up is a preposition connecting went and hill.)

Question 20

A conjunction joins words in a sentence, and can be divided into three categories: _______________________, __________________,
_______________________ .

Answer 20

Coordinating Conjunctions: fanboy
Correlative conjunctions cannot stand alone; they must have a relative nearby, usually in the same sentence: both/and, either/or, neither/nor, not only/also, and not only/but also.
Subordinating conjunctions are used in the beginning of dependent clauses.

Question 21

Interjections is a word that _________________________________.

Answer 21

can either express surprise or some other kind of emotion, or it can be used a filler. Interjections often stand alone.

Hey, what’s going on?

Question 22

In standard grammar, prepositions are always ____________________.

Answer 22

Modifiers, adjectives or adverbs.

Question 23

Inverted Appositive

Answer 23

Appositive phrases moved from their normal position after their antecedent to a position in front of the antecedent.

The only reindeer with his on agent, Rudolph hit the talk-show circuit.