ENGLISH Flashcards
affect (v)
to change, to influence (homophone with “effect”)
effect (n)
a result, a consequence
common nouns
generic names for people, places, things (non-capitalized)
boy, school, dog
proper nouns
specific people, places, things (capitalized)
Abraham Lincoln, Los Angeles
general nouns
conditions or ideas
beauty, peace
specific nouns
people, places, things understood by using your senses
father, park, gasoline
collective nouns
people, places, things that act as a whole
herd, team, group
superlative
she is the smartest, this test is the most difficult;
compares more than two things
preposition
a word placed before a noun that shows the relationship between an object and another word in the sentence
the Earth rotates AROUND the sun
the needle is BENEATH the haystack
coordinating conjunctions
and, but, yet, so…
correlative conjunctions
neither…nor, not only…but also
subordinating conjunctions
because, after, while, until, unless…
interjections
Ow!, Ouch!, Hey!
