TEAS grammar

Question 1

Adjective

Answer 1

a descriptive word that modifies a noun or pronoun

- Words that convey size or color or condition like large, green, battered

Question 2

Adverb

Answer 2

a word that modifies a verb, adjective or another adverb

- Information about time, manner or place like rarely, quickly, here

Question 3

Article

Answer 3

word that is used to limit a noun

- Either indefinite or definite like a, and, the

Question 4

Clause

Answer 4

a group of words that are related and contain both a subject and a verb

• My dog loves pizza crust
• Subject = dog, verb = loves

Question 5

Direct object

Answer 5

the noun or pronoun that receives the action of the verb and answers the question, whom or what.

• The boy kicked the ball
• Verb = kicked, direct object = ball

Question 6

Noun

Answer 6

a word for a person, place or thing

- Boy, school, ball

Question 7

Object of the preposition

Answer 7

the noun, pronoun, phrase or clause to which the preposition refers

• Behind them
• Preposition = behind, - noun = them

Question 8

Phrase

Answer 8

a group of words that are related but do not contain a verb and subject together
- before the first test

Question 9

Possessive pronoun

Answer 9

a pronoun used to indicate ownership

• The ball is mine
• Possessive pronoun = mine

Question 10

Preposition

Answer 10

a word such as by, at, to, in or from that gives additional information, usually in relationship to something else in the sentence

• The dog is in the box
• Preposition = in

Question 11

Pronoun

Answer 11

a word that replaces and refers to the noun

• These words include I, he, she, it, they, we
• Or as object me, you, him, her, it, us, them
• John races cars, he has won a number of races
• Pronoun = he

Question 12

Subject

Answer 12

a noun or pronoun that performs the action of the verb
- every verb must have a subject. If the verb expresses action the subject is who or what does the verb.
- During the TEAS test, Susan danced on the table
Subject = Susan

Question 13

Verb

Answer 13

– a word that shows an action or a state of being
- Actions words include:
Crashed, studied, jumped, ran, yelled, bought etc.
Any word that shows an action is a verb
- State of being words include:
Is, are, became, seems, feels etc.

Question 14

Prepositional phrase

Answer 14

– usually composed of a preposition, an article and an object of the preposition

• Stacey headed to the closet for the clothes she was going to wear the next day.
• List the prepositional phrases
• *mnemonic to remember propositional phrases
• The boy can sit on the box, by the box, above box, below the box, around the box, or near the box.
• This does not allow for to and from

Question 15

Possessive pronouns

Answer 15

shows possession automatically
- First person possessive pronouns:
Mine, my, our, ours
- Second person possessive pronouns:
Your, yours
- Third person possessive pronouns
Her, hers, his, its, their, theirs
- (its and theirs do not have an apostrophe)