Final Study Guide for English

Question 1

Noun

Answer 1

a word names a person, place, thing or idea

Question 2

a word used to connect a word or groups of words

Answer 2

Conjunction

Question 3

an exclamatory word used to express strong or sudden feelings

Answer 3

Interjection

Question 4

a word that shows the relationship between a noun/pronoun after it and some other word in the sentence

Answer 4

Preposition

Question 5

a word that modifies /describes a noun/pronoun

it answers the questions:
Which one?, What Kind?, How Many?, How Much?, Whose?

Answer 5

Adjective

Question 6

Pronoun

Answer 6

a word that takes the place of noun

Question 7

Antecedent

Answer 7

a noun for which a pronoun stands

Question 8

Capitilalizing Titles

Answer 8

capitalize the first letter of a sentence and all important words in the title of books, magazines, newspapers poems, stories, plays & works of art

Question 9

Underline/Italicize rule for Titles

Answer 9

Underline/italicize the titles of books, magazines, newspapers, plays, works of art, ships, trains and airplanes

Question 10

Quotation mark rule for Titles

Answer 10

use quotation marks to enclose titles of short stories, short poems, songs, chapters, articles, and other parts of books or magazines

Question 11

Capitalizing with a sentence:
Titles of People

Answer 11

Capitalize titles when they are used before a person’s name as a part of the name

Question 12

Capitalizing with a sentence:
Seasons/Months Rule

Answer 12

Do not capitalize the seasons (spring, summer, fall winter)
Capitalize Months

Question 13

Capitalizing with a sentence:
Subject in School Rule

Answer 13

if it is a language it is capitalized unless it is a particular subject in school

Question 14

a noun/pronoun that follows an action verb

answers the questions who or what? after the verb

Answer 14

Direct Object

Question 15

noun/pronoun that precedes the direct object and tells to whom or for whom, or to what or for what the action of the verb is done

Answer 15

Indirect Object

Question 16

noun/pronoun that follows a linking verb and renames or explains the subject

Answer 16

Predicate Nominative

Question 17

adjective that follows a linking verb and modifies the subject

Answer 17

Predicate Adjective

Question 18

noun/pronoun that completes a prepositional phrase

a preposition must always have an object

Answer 18

Object of the Preposition

Question 19

the name of the person to whom a sentence is directed. it is set off by commas.

Answer 19

Direct Address

Question 20

When do you use lay vs. lie?

Answer 20

Lay - to put or place something

Lie - to recline

Question 21

When do you use rise vs. raise?

Answer 21

Rise - to go or get up

Raise - to lift something or to push something up

Question 22

When do you use sit vs. set?

Answer 22

Sit - to be seated

Set - to put or place something

Question 23

When do you use bring vs take?

Answer 23

Bring - indicates movement towards you

Take - indicates movement away from you

Question 24

When do you use can vs. may?

Answer 24

Can - refers to ability

May - refers to permission

Question 25

When do you use learn vs. teach?

Answer 25

Learn - to obtain knowledge Teach - to give knowledge

Question 26

When do you use let vs. leave?

Answer 26

Let - to allow Leave - to go away from or to cause to remain

Question 27

When do you use Good?

Answer 27

use an adjective only

Question 28

When do you use Well?

Answer 28

use as an adverb or an adjective