term 3 english

Question 1

what are conjunctions?

Answer 1

joining words

Question 2

what type of words are:
- and
- but
- yet
- or
- so
-unless
- because
- although

Answer 2

conjunctions

Question 3

what is an abbreviation?

Answer 3

a shortened form of a word

Question 4

name 3 types of abbreviations

Answer 4

acronyms
initialisms
truncations

Question 5

what is an acronym?

Answer 5

when the initials make a NEW WORD
e.g AIDS, NASA

Question 6

what is an initialism?

Answer 6

when the initials are used but the don’t make a new word (so. you say the letters)
e.g. FYI, a.m., USA

Question 7

what is a truncation?

Answer 7

an abbreviation where the end of the word is CUT OFF when you write it (but when you read it say the whole word)
e.g etc. , Oct., Mon.

Question 8

what is an adverb?

Answer 8

a word that describes a VERB (and sometimes other types of words but never nouns).
There are 5 TYPES:
- adverbs of place
- adverbs of time
- adverbs of manner
- adverbs of frequency
- adverbs of degree

Question 9

what is an adjective?

Answer 9

a word that describes a NOUN

Question 10

what is an adverb of PLACE?

Answer 10

words that tell us WHERE an action is done
e.g. outside, everywhere, here, there, near, far, upstairs

Question 11

what is an adverb of TIME?

Answer 11

words that tell us WHEN an action is done
e.g. now, today, yesterday, soon, sometime, whenever

Question 12

what are adverbs of MANNER?

Answer 12

words that tell us HOW an action is done
e.g. quickly, quietly, beauitfully, carefully

Question 13

what are adverbs of FREQUENCY?

Question 14

what are adverbs of DEGREE?

Question 15

what is a simple sentence?

Question 16

what is a compound sentence?

Answer 16

a sentence where two simple sentences are joined with a CONJUNCTION

Question 17

what is a complex sentence

Answer 17

a sentence where two or more clauses (or sentences) are joined with a ADVERB or PRONOUN - so joining them tells you more about one of them

Question 18

what is the subordinate clause in a complex sentence?

Answer 18

the clause that tells you more about the main clause

Question 19

what is the subject of a sentence?

Answer 19

WHO or WHAT (noun) the sentence is talking about. To work out the subject, ask yourself:
who or what is doing the thing in the sentence?

Question 20

what is the is the object of a sentence?

Answer 20

the object is the NOUN (a thing or who or what) the subject of a sentence is doing something to or with

Question 21

what is the predicate of a sentence

Answer 21

the VERB and OBJECT together (usually comes after the subject)

Question 22

list 5 types of pronouns

Answer 22

Personal pronoun
Possessive pronoun
Reflexive pronoun
Relative pronoun
Domonstrative pronouns

Question 23

What is a personal pronoun?

Answer 23

used to refer to people or object (usually instead of using their names) e.g. you, she, he, it, they, we, me, him, her, him, us

Question 24

What are possesive pronouns?

Answer 24

used to show who owns or can be linked to an item e.g. mine, yours, his hers, theirs

Question 25

what are reflexive pronouns?

Answer 25

used when the subject and object of the sentence are the same and end in -self or -selves
e.g. myself, yourself, himself, herself, themselves, ourselves

Question 26

What are demonstrative pronouns?

Answer 26

words that show distance in time or space between noun and speaker e.g.
this (something close, singular),
that (singular, far),
these (plural, close),
those (plural, far)

Question 26

What are relative pronouns?

Answer 26

words that begin a relative clause and add extra information e.g.
that, which, who, whose, whom, where, when

Question 27

what are pronouns?

Answer 27

used to replace the nouns in a sentence

Question 28

what do pronouns help us to do?

Answer 28

make our writing less repetitive

Question 29

what is subject verb agreement?

Answer 29

when the subject and verb in a sentence agree - they both need to be plural or both need to be singular
e.g. We bake a cake. BUT
My mum bakes a cake

Question 30

what is a collective noun?

Answer 30

a name for a GROUP of things

Question 31

what is the difference between a collective noun and a common noun?

Answer 31

a collective noun is the name of a group of things whereas
a common noun is the name of one of the things

Question 32

What is a transitive verb?

Answer 32

an action verb that has a direct object. So you can answer the question “Subject verb what?”

Question 33

What is an intransitive verb?

Answer 33

an action verb that has no direct object, it’s usually followed by more information about the verb
So you cannot answer the question “Subject verb what?”

Question 34

what is an auxillary verb?

Answer 34

a verb that helps with the main verb (action) to tell us when the action or state of being occurs e.g. is, am, are, have, do, does, was, were, will

Question 35

what is a main verb?

Answer 35

the verb that shows the action or state of being in a sentence