Semester 1 Grammar Review

Question 1

Antecedent

Answer 1

Word or phrase that follows the pronoun

Question 2

Absent

Answer 2

Can be an adjective or a verb

Question 3

Acronyms

Answer 3

“A” and “an” can be confusing; sound versus letters

Question 4

Action verbs

Answer 4

I study

Question 5

Verb of being

Answer 5

I am a student

Question 6

Affixes

Answer 6

Bits stuck to root words; prefixes and suffixes; combination of one root or more

Question 7

Adverbs modify verbs

Answer 7

-ly ending (adverbs); he ran quickly

Question 8

Being that

Answer 8

Idiom; it being the case that/given that

Question 9

Block quotations

Answer 9

Three or four lines; “__” indented on both sides; no quotation marks; longer direct quotations

Question 10

Bugbears

Answer 10

Preposition at the end of a sentence; splits infinitives

Question 11

Citation

Answer 11

Chicago style (history); MLA

Question 12

Cannot

Answer 12

One word

Question 13

Concrete language

Answer 13

Definite and clear terms

Question 14

Cf

Answer 14

Abbreviation; compare. “Cf p. 227”

Question 15

Do not use

Answer 15

The word currently

Question 16

What to avoid

Answer 16

Clichés

Question 17

Dangling participle

Answer 17

Verb with -ing ending; when subject and verb do not agree

Question 18

Decimate/demagogue

Answer 18

Verb

Question 19

Denigration/connotation

Answer 19

Literal meaning vs suggestions

Question 20

Dependent vs independent clauses

Answer 20

“Since we’ve fallen a week behind, we’ll skip the second.”

Question 21

Diction

Answer 21

Word choice

Question 22

Double negatives

Answer 22

“I don’t know nothing”

Question 23

Every day vs everyday

Answer 23

An everyday event the occurs every day; occurring daily

Question 24

E.g. Vs I.e.

Answer 24

For example versus that is

Question 25

Exists

Answer 25

Do not use exists, use substitutes

Question 26

First person

Answer 26

I, me, my

Question 27

Footnotes

Answer 27

Citations

Question 28

Gender

Answer 28

Gender important to text?

Question 29

Generalizations

Answer 29

Be specific, not vague

Question 30

Gerund

Answer 30

Verb as a noun

Question 31

Hoi polloi

Answer 31

Common people; the masses

Question 32

However

Answer 32

Avoid starting with

Question 33

Hypercorrection

Answer 33

He and I; whom

Question 34

Hyphen

Answer 34

En-dash

Question 35

Ibid

Answer 35

In the same place

Question 36

Idiolect

Answer 36

Form of language spoken by an individual

Question 37

Imply

Answer 37

Hinting

Question 38

Infer

Answer 38

Infer what you hear

Question 39

Apposition

Answer 39

Relationship between two or more phrases

Question 40

Begging the question

Answer 40

Assume the conclusion is true

Question 41

Comma splice

Answer 41

Two independent clauses with a comma

Question 42

Interpolation

Answer 42

Something inside of something else

Question 43

Possessive

Answer 43

Relationship between one thing and another

Question 44

Preposition at the end of a sentence

Answer 44

“She is in which department?”

Question 45

Jargon

Answer 45

Not academic writing

Question 46

Lay versus lie

Answer 46

Lies are present; lay is past

Question 47

Loose versus lose

Answer 47

Lose is to mislay; Loose is a adjective

Question 48

Lead versus led

Answer 48

Lead is present and led is past

Question 49

Literally

Answer 49

Don’t use it when being metaphorical

Question 50

Liaise

Answer 50

Verb

Question 51

Linking verb

Answer 51

Subject and predicate are linked

Question 52

Mixed metaphor

Answer 52

Two or more metaphors; incompatible

Question 53

Modifier

Answer 53

Modifies noun

Question 54

Imperative mood

Answer 54

What will happen

Question 55

Subjunctive mood

Answer 55

Hypothetical action

Question 56

Never versus always

Answer 56

Do not begin with

Question 57

Novel

Answer 57

Long and fictional

Question 58

Number(s)

Answer 58

Write it out and abbreviate