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Connexus 8: Language Arts > Unit 1: Growing Up — Grammar > Flashcards

Unit 1: Growing Up — Grammar Flashcards

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What are the Parts of Speech?

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Adjectives, Adverbs, Conjunctions, Interjections, nouns, prepositions, pronouns, and verbs

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In English, what is the most populous part of speech?

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Nouns

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What is a noun?

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A noun is a word that names a person, place, thing, or idea

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What two categories can nouns be divided into, based on touch?

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Concrete and Abstract nouns

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What are concrete nouns?

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A noun that names people, places, and things that you can see or touch

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What are abstract nouns?

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A noun that names ideas and qualities

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What two categories can nouns be divided into, based of specification?

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General nouns (ex: fruit) and specific nouns (ex: apple)

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True or False: A proper noun can sometimes include more than one word, yet still be considered one noun

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True; “Taj Mahal”

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What is a compound noun?

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A noun that includes more than one word

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What are the three forms of a compound noun?

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Hyphenated, separate words, or combined; use dictionary

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What is a collective noun?

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A noun that names a group of people or things

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What does the term “parts of speech” refer to?

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The classification of words according to their common uses in sentences

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What sometimes added as the ninth part of speech?

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The “Article”

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What are the four basic parts of speech called?

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“Form Classes” including: nouns and pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs

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What groups do “function words” fall into?

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Prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections

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What is a sentence built up from?

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Words in the four basic classes

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What are Demonstrative Pronouns?

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Pronouns that point out a particular person or thing, including: This, That, These, Those

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What is a relative pronoun?

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Pronouns that join an adjective clause or a noun clause to an independent clause, including: Who, Whom, Which, That, Whose, Where, When, Why, and What

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What is a Verbal?

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Verbs that function as other parts of speech, such as nouns, adjectives, and adverbs

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What are Gerunds?

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Verbs ending in “-ing” that function as nouns

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What are Participles?

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“Parts” of a verb that need an auxiliary, or helping, verb to function. When appearing as a participle, a verbal functions as an adjective

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What are Infinitives?

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Infinitives are formed by placing the word “to” in front of the present tense form of a verb. It functions as an adjective, an adverb, or noun

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What is an antecedent?

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The noun a pronoun refers to or replaces

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What are the three categories a personal pronoun can be divided in?

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1st person (Singular/Plural), 2nd person (Singular/Plural), and 3rd person (Singular/Plural)

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What do reflexive and intensive pronouns do?

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They refer to or emphasize another noun or pronoun. These pronouns are formed by adding “-self” of “-selves” to certain personal pronouns

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What is a reflexive pronoun?

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A pronoun that reflects back to a noun or a pronoun mentioned earlier in the sentence

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What is an intensive pronoun?

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A pronoun that is used directly after its antecedent to intensify, or emphasize, a statement

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True or False: A reflexive pronoun is necessary to the meaning of a sentence, an intensive pronoun is not

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True

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True or false: Never use reflexive or intensive pronouns b themselves

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True

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What is an Indefinite pronoun?

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A pronoun that refers to unnamed people, places, thing, or ideas. They often do not have definite antecedents as personal pronouns do

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Plural Indefinite Pronouns:

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Both, few, many, others, several

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Singular/Plural Indefinite Pronouns:

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All, any, more, none

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What is an interrogative pronoun?

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Pronouns that are used to ask questions: What, which, who, whom, and whose

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What are reciprocal pronouns?

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The pronouns “each other” and “one another” that show that the action is two-way

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What is a verb?

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A word that shows action or a state of being

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What two categories can action verbs be categorized in?

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Transitive and Intransitive

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True or False: Most action verbs show physical action but some show mental action and ownership, or possession

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True

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What is an auxiliary?

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Helping verb

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What is a verb phrase?

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A verb phrase includes a main verb plus any helping verbs

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True or False: A verb phrase may contain more than one helping verb, but it may also be interrupted by other words

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True

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Common helping verbs of “be”:

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Am, is, are, was, were, be, being, been

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Common helping verbs of “have”:

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Has, have, had

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Common helping verbs of “do”:

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Do, does, did

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Common helping verbs:

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May, might, must, can, could, shall, should, will, would

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What is a transitive verb?

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An action verb that passes the action from a doer to a receiver

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What is an intransitive verb?

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A verb that express an action or states something about the subject, but has no object

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What is a linking verb?

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A verb that expresses a state of being; it connects the subject of a sentence to a word that gives information about the subject. The word either renames or describes the subject

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All linking verbs are forms of what verb?

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“Be”; any verb phrase ending in “be” or “been” is a form of “be” and can be used as a linking verb, but not always

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What is a subject complement?

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The word that renames or describes the subject

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What is a proper adjective?

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An adjective formed from a proper noun

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What is a compound adjective?

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Adjectives that are made up of two or more words

52
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“An”, “a”, and “the” make up a special group of adjectives called what?

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The Articles

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What parts of speech do adverb modify?

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A verb, an adjective, or another adverb

54
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What word, and it’s contraction, is always an adverb?

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“Not” and “n’t”

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What are prepositions?

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Words that show relationships between nouns or pronouns and another word in the sentence

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What are conjunctions?

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Connecting words

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What is a compound preposition?

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A preposition that is made up of two or more words

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What is the “object of a preposition”?

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The noun or pronoun at the end of a prepositional phrase

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What does a prepositional phrase begin with and end with?

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It begins with a preposition and ends with a noun or pronoun

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What is a coordinating conjunction?

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A single connecting word

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What is a correlative conjunction?

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Pairs of connecting words

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What are interjections?

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Words that are used to express emotion, such as “Hey” or “Oh”

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How are interjections separated in a sentence?

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When interjections appear in a sentence, they are separated from the rest of the sentence with a period or a comma

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