Parts of Speech & Basic Grammar (The name word) Flashcards
CET
Names a particular person, place, or thing. The first letter must me capitalized
Proper Noun
Does not denote anybody, anyplace or anything in particular
Common Noun
The speaker is talking about somebody, something or someplace specific
Proper Noun
Refers to anyone belonging to a class of persons, place, and things.
Common Noun
A word used for naming person, an animal, a place, a thing, or an idea
Noun
These two types of nouns usually belong to common nouns
Collective Noun
Abstract Noun
Refers to a collectivity or a group of persons, animals, or things that are counted or deemed as one.
Collective Noun
Denotes an intangible idea. It names a condition or a concept.
Abstract Noun
Anything that names a quality
Abstract noun
Singular when we think of it as a group and plural when we think of the individuals acting within the whole.
Collective Noun
It denotes the speaker
First Person
A noun may indicate the speaker, the one spoken to, or the one spoken about
Person
It denotes the one spoken about
Third Person
It denotes the one spoken to
Second Person
What are the Modifications or Qualities of Nouns?
Person
Number
Gender
Refers to only one person, animal, thing, or place.
Singular Noun
A noun maybe singular or plural
Number
Refers to more than one of them (noun)
Plural Noun
Denote objects that do not have sex
Neuter
Denote the female sex
Feminine
A modification or qualities of nouns that may be masculine, feminine, neuter
Gender
Denote the male sex
Masculine
A noun thay may be taken as masculine or feminine is considered as _______
Masculine
A noun has a quality that denotes its relation to other words in a sentence
Case
Three cases:
Nominative
Possessive
Objective
A noun may be used differently in different sentences
Nominative Case
It is what being talked about or when it does the action in the sentence
Subject
It is used to say something about the subject.
Predicate Nominative or Subjective Complement
It is directly addressed (talk to) in the sentence
Address
It is used independently to express a strong emotion
Nominative of Exclamation
It denotes the same person, place, or thing as the noun being explained
Nominative in Apposition
It follows a noun or a pronoun and explains its meaning
Appositive
A noun may indicate ownership, possession or connection to another word in the sentence
Possessive Case
Used as the receiver of the action indicated by the verb
Direct object
It is what the preposition in the sentence refers to. Usually follows the preposition.
Object of a preposition
The noun is used as an appositive of (explains or specifies) a noun that is in the objective case, then that noun is in the objective case as well, functioning as an objective in apposition.
Objective in Apposition
A noun refers to whom or for whom an action is done
Indirect object
Part of speech that tells us when, where, why, how much, how far and how long
Adverb
When a noun is used as an adverb
Advebrial objective
When the noun has the following uses..
Objective case
When the verb changes from active to passive but retains its direct object
Retained Object
When a noun is used to explain the direct object and complete the meaning of the verb
Objective Complement
When a noun that repeats the meaning implied by the verb is a direct object
Cognate object
