CHAPTER 2

Question 1

verbs that has a receiver

Answer 1

transitive

Question 2

verb that does not have a receiver

Answer 2

intransitive

Question 3

what consists of a main verb plus one or more helping verbs?

Answer 3

verb phrase

Question 4

a verb that helps the main verb to make a statement

Answer 4

helping verb

Question 5

noun that names a particular person, place, thing, or idea but does not say which particular one

Answer 5

common noun

Question 6

noun that names a group or a collection (comitee)

Answer 6

collective noun

Question 7

noun that names a quality, state, activity, or general idea

Answer 7

abstract noun

Question 8

noun that names whatever exists as a physical or material substance

Answer 8

concrete noun

Question 9

any word, phrase, or clause that functions as a noun

Answer 9

substantive

Question 10

a substantive that follows another substantive to explain or identify it

Answer 10

appositive

Question 11

the word for which a pronoun stands

Answer 11

antecedent

Question 12

types of pronouns

Answer 12

• personal (you, we, ours)
• interrogative (who, whom, whose)
• demonstrative (this, that, those)
• indefinite (each, either, few, anyone)
• compound (themselves, yourself)
• relative pronouns (who, whom, whose) Kendra is the one WHO knows how to fish.

Question 13

they can defend THEMSELVES (what kind of compound pronoun?)

Answer 13

reflexive compound pronoun

Question 14

Mr. Smith did the the work HIMSELF (what kind of compound pronoun?)

Answer 14

intensive compound pronoun