CHAPTER 1: PARTS OF SPEECH

Question 1

What is a verb?

Answer 1

Action(s) or State(s) of Being

Question 2

What is a gerund?

Answer 2

Verb + -ing / Gerunds are not verbs – they function as either nouns or adjectives.

Question 3

What is a noun?

Answer 3

Person, Place, Thing or Idea

Question 4

What is a pronoun?

Answer 4

A word that replaces a named noun (the “Antecedent”) with he/she/it/you/this/some/etc.

Question 5

What are adjectives?

Answer 5

They describe nouns.

Question 6

What are adverbs?

Answer 6

Ends in -ly (usually), describe (1) adjectives, (2) verbs, and (3) adverbs

Question 7

What are prepositions?

Answer 7

They show WHERE and WHEN things take place – “fofwaboat” = for, of, from, with, at, by, on, about, to

Question 8

What are conjunctions?

Answer 8

They’re FANBOYS (For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So)

Question 9

What is the subject?

Answer 9

The subject does the verb ( I or Who)

Question 10

What is the object?

Answer 10

It has the Verb DONE to It (“object of the verb”) OR it comes at the end of a prepositional phrase (“object of the preposition”) - “Me / Whom”

Example:
Object of the verb: “I hit the ball.”

Object of the preposition: “I went to the park.”