Week 9 Flashcards
What is a predicate Nominative?
A predicate Nominative is a noun or a pronoun that follows a linking verb and renames a subject.
What is a Past Participle? (C3, W3)
A past participle is a verb plus -ed used as an adjective or a verb.
What are the 5 Principal parts of a verb? (C3, W4)
The principal parts of a verb are: Infinitive, Present, past, present participle, and past participle.
What is a present Participle? (C3, W2)
A present participle is a verb plus -ING used as an adjective or a verb.
What are the Principle parts of the verb “to be”?
The principal parts of the verb to be are: Infinitive: To be Present: am, are, is past: was, were Present participle: being past participle: been
What is an infinitive? (C3, W1)
An infinitive is “to” plus a verb used as a noun, adjective, or adverb.
What are two kinds of prepositional phrases?
The two kinds of prepositional phrases are adverbial, and adjectival.
What is a preposition? (C1, W1)
a preposition is a word that relates a noun or a pronoun to another word.
What do adverbs modify? (C2, W13)
Adjectives modify verbs, adjectives and adverbs.
What is a direct object?
A direct object is a noun or pronoun in the predicate that receives the action of the transitive verb.
What is an appositive?
an appositive is a noun or pronoun that comes directly after another noun and explains or identifies it.
What is a noun of direct address?
a noun of direct address is used to call upon a person and is set off by one or more commas.
What is a prepositional phrase?
A prepositional phrase contains a preposition, its object and and any modifiers between them.
What do adverbs tell? (C2, W13)
Adverbs tell how, when, where, why, to what extent, how often, how much, or under what condition.
