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Grammar Flashcards

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Is the study and practice of the rules by which words change their forms and are combined into sentences

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Grammar

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Is also a science because just like the laws of physics and chemistry, they are scientific explanation about the facts

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Grammar

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How language is used with people, how we say need to fit the occasion (formal or informal) the place, the audience and so on.

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Socio-linguistic competence

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4
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Have the task of naming person, places, things and ideas

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Nouns

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Names as specific person, place or thing, is almost all capitalized

Ex: Eunise, SOCOTECH, Surigao, Dr.

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Proper noun

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6
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Name everything else that usually are not capitalized

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Common noun

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Noun referring to one place person, place or thing

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Singular noun

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Noun referring to more than one place, person or thing.

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Plural

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9
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Give examples of plural and forms but singular in meaning

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News mathematics politics metropolis checkers

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10
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Give example of singular and form but plural in meaning

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People clergy poultry police catle vermin

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Noun ending with -tch,-ch,-sh-s-z, or -x add ______

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“-es”

Example: Buses, Glasses, wishes, bushes

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12
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Noun ending in “Y” after a vowel add _________

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“S”

Example: journeys, Mondays, alloys, keys, boys

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To the noun ends in “y” after the consonant add ________

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“-es” and replace the y to i

Ex: facilities, replies, berries, candies

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To a few noun ending in f or fe change f to v and add s or e s

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Shelves, shelves, lives, thieves, roofs, staffs

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To the noun ends in o preceded by a vowel add _____

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”s”

ex: patio—patios
ratio—ratios
piano—pianos

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To the noun ends in o preceeded by a consonant add _____

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“es”

ex:
Negro—negroes
Hero—heroes

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17
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Some noun formed by plural by a change in the vowel.
(Give example)

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Man-men
Foot-feet
Tooth-teeth
Mouse-mice
Goose-geese

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18
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The plural compound nouns are generally formed by adding s to the principle word in the compound

(Give examples)

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Mother-in-law — mothers-in-law
Board of education— boards of education

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19
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Plural compound nouns where some both parts of the compound are made plural

(Give examples)

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Manservant — menservants
Woman doctor — women doctors

20
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The plural of proper nouns are formed by adding s or es

(Give examples)

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  1. There are three Ruth’s in the class
  2. The two Burnses left the hole
  3. The Joneses on the Smith’s attended the ball
21
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Title are made plural and several ways

(Give examples)

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Ms — Misses
Mr — Messers
Madam — Mesdames

22
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It is a type of nouns which name everything that can be counted and made plural by adding and work with plural words like few, many, and these but don’t work with “much or less”

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Count nouns

23
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Used _____ before a word beginning with a consonant sound

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“A”

Ex: A home
A spoon
A program

24
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Use _____ before a word beginning with vowel sound

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“An”

Ex: an egg
an igloo
an oval

25
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It is a type of nouns which name something that cannot be counted (water, air, energy, blood, love, sugar, wood, furniture, eyes, dirt, anger, homework). It work with much or less but not with ‘many or few’.

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Mass nouns (Non-count nouns)

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Type of noun refers to group of people animal or things a single entity which can take a singular form but are composed of more than one individual or items ( jury, class, committee, herd, school). Can act as a group (singular) or as an individual (plural)

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Collective nouns

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Type of noun that name a person animal place or thing that we can actually see, touch, taste, hear or smell.

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Concrete nouns

28
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Type of noun that name an idea, feeling, emotions or quality that cannot be detected by five senses such as pleasure, skill, nature, communication, warmth, grief, justice and peace

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Abstract nouns

29
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Type of noun that are made up of two or more words used together.

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Compound nouns

30
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In a compound nouns give me examples of “One word”

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Shoelace, flashlight, notebook

31
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In a compound noun give me examples of hyphenated

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Sky-scraper, boy-friend, baby-sitter

32
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Tells us what the sentence is about

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Subject of the sentence

Ex: ‘Calculus’ is a difficult subject
His ‘pencil’ is very sharp

33
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Comes after a linking verb and is equivalent to the subject but renames it in different terms

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Predicate noun

Ex: Your ‘friend’ is a programmer
‘Mr. Cruz, will become the president of the IT club

34
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Is a noun or phrase that comes after another noun and identifies, explain, or gives more information about the other noun.

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Appositive noun

Ex: Herman’s sister, Sandy, left the room.
Carla’s teacher, Mrs. Santiago, helped me with my project.

35
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Is a noun that receives the action of a verb. to verify whether a sentence contains a direct object as the question (whom) or (what) after the verb

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Direct object of a verb

Ex: We can hardly ‘see’ the street
He ‘placed’ all student in waiting list

36
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Receives the action of the verb indirectly and it always comes before the direct object the indirect shows for whom or for what the action was undertaken and is identified by imagining a to or for in front of it.

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Indirect object of a verb

Ex: Sheena baked (for) Mrs. Sevilla a cake.
Should I buy (for) my daughter a laptop.

37
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Is a noun that completes or adds to the meaning of the direct object. Objective usually follow the noun they modify and are used when the direct object would not make complete sense but itself

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Object complement

Ex: The board elected Mr. Santos ‘president’
My sister called the salesperson ‘ a swindler and a fraud

38
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Used before another noun to show ownership, source of origin, or other matters of relationship. Also used in situation referring to time

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Possessive noun

Ex:The technician’s uniform is blue.
The boy’s quote are on the rack.
The joneses’ house is for sale.

39
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Use noun to describe another noun.

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Noun as adjective

Ex: a race horse
A horse race
A boat race
A love story
A war story

40
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Function of nouns in sentence that tells us what the sentence is about

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Subject of the sentence

41
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Comes after a linking verb and is equivalent to the subject but renames it in different terms.

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Predicate noun

42
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Is a noun or phrase that comes after another noun and identifies explain or gives more information about the other noun

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Appositive

43
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Is a noun that receives the action of a verb

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Direct object of a verb

44
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Receives the action of the verb indirectly, and it always comes before the direct object

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Indirect object of a verb

45
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Is a noun that completes or adds to the meaning of the direct object

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Object compliment

46
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Used before another noun to show ownership source of origin or other matters of relationship

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Possessive noun

47
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Use noun to describe another noun where the first noun acts as an adjective in singular form except when it is noun that is always plural and form

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Noun as adjective

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