CHAPTER 1

Question 1

a group of words that express a complete thought and can stand alone.

Answer 1

a sentence

Question 2

the part of the sentence about which something is said

Answer 2

subject

Question 3

that part of the sentence which says something about the subject

Answer 3

predicate

Question 4

shows action, links, helps, or indicates existence

Answer 4

verb

Question 5

a word that names a person, place, thing, or idea

Answer 5

a noun

Question 6

a word that takes the place of a noun

Answer 6

pronoun

Question 7

a word that modifies a noun or pronoun

Answer 7

adjective

Question 8

a word that modifies a verb, and adjective, or an adverb

Answer 8

an adverb

Question 9

a word that shows how a noun or a pronoun is related to some other word in the sentence

Answer 9

preposition

Question 10

a word or word group that joins words, phrases, or clauses

Answer 10

conjunction

Question 11

an exclamatory word that is not grammatically related to the other words in a sentence

Answer 11

interjection

Question 12

a group of related words that does not contain a subject or a verb

Answer 12

phrase

Question 13

a group of related words that contains both a subject and a verb

Answer 13

clause

Question 14

expresses a complete thought and can stand alone as a sentence

Answer 14

independent clause

Question 15

contains a subject and a verb but does not express a complete thought and cannot stand alone as a sentence

Answer 15

dependent (subordinate) clause

Question 16

what are the four types of sentences

Answer 16

• simple
• compound
• complex
• compound-complex

Question 17

Four kinds of sentences classified according to their purpose

Answer 17

• declarative
• imperative
• interrogative
• exclamatory

Question 18

a group of words that expresses a complete thought and can stand alone

Answer 18

a sentence

Question 19

every sentence should have a ? and a ?

Answer 19

subject and predicate

Question 20

the verb plus any complements and modifiers

Answer 20

complete predicate

Question 21

a verb form that is used as a noun, adjective, or adverb

Answer 21

verbal

Question 22

verb form used as an adjective

Answer 22

participle

Question 23

verb form used as a noun

Answer 23

gerund

Question 24

when any part of the predicate comes before the subject, the sentence is in ?

Answer 24

inverted order

Question 25

what are “there” and “it” considered when they are at the beginning of a sentence?

Answer 25

expletives

Question 26

subject of an imperative sentence

Answer 26

understood “you”

Question 27

what completes the meaning begun by the subject and verb

Answer 27

complement

Question 28

a noun or its equivalent

Answer 28

substantive

Question 29

a word that would either rename or describe the direct object

Answer 29

objective complement