Grammar Flashcards

1
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The verb BE has three forms:

A

Am, is, are

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2
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What type of sentence is this?
I am a teacher
You are a student
He is in the lab
She is my sister

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Affirmative sentence

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3
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What type of sentence is this?

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She is not sad
They are not in the school
She is not here

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4
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are called that because the answers always start with Yes
or No

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Yes/ No question

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5
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-It looks for information
according to the question word.
-In this kind of question you never answer
Yes or No, because they are asking for some
information. The answer is a statement with
the information according to the question
word

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WH-question

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6
Q

We use THIS / THESE when the objects are near to the speaker
We use THAT / THOSE when the objects are far from the speakers.

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Demonstratives

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7
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We use _________ when the objects are far from the speakers.

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That/those

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8
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We use ________ when the objects are near to the speaker

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This/these

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9
Q

What do you call these nouns?
boss - bosses
tax - taxes
bush - bushes
fly - flies
try - tries
curry – curries
cat - cats
face - faces
day – days

A

Plural Nouns

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10
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What do you call these nouns
knife - knives
life - lives
wife - wives
half - halves
wolf - wolves
loaf - loaves
potato - potatoes
tomato - tomatoes
volcano -
volcanoes

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Irregular Plural Nouns

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11
Q

What do you call these adjectives?
I My
You Your
He His
She Her
It Its
We Our
They Their

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Possessive adjectives

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12
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What do you call these prepositions?
In the house in a shop
In a room in a town
In a car in a garden
On a shelf on a wall
On a plate on the table
On a balcony on a door

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Preposition of Place

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13
Q

is used to
describe activities that
happen now, that
means activities that
are develop in the
moment of speaking

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Present continous

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14
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is used to show ability

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Can

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15
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What are the lexical catergories?

A

Noun
Verb
Pronoun
Interjection
Adjective
Adverb
Preposition
Conjuction

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16
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The word that names a person, place, thing, an idea

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Noun

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17
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Kinds of noun

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common
proper
singular
plural
singular possessive
plural possessive

18
Q

are names of any,
place, or thing and name of person.
Common nouns are not capitalized.
* The city
* A policeman
* That newspaper

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Common nouns

19
Q

are the name of a
special person, place, or thing. Proper
nouns are capitalized.
* Dallas
* Officer Walker
* New York Times

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Proper nouns

20
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A word that expresses action
or otherwise helps to make a
statement.

21
Q

Every sentence must have
a

22
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verbs express
mental or physical
action

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Action verbs

23
Q

make a statement by
connecting the subject
with a word that
describes or explains
it

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Linking verbs

24
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Kind of Verbs

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Action and linking verbs

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Links subject to noun or an adjective in the predicate part of the sentence. * Is, are, was ,were, am, been * Smell, look, taste, remain, feel, appear, sound, seem, become, grow, stand, turn
Linking verbs
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is a word used in place of one or more nouns. It may stand for a person, place, thing, or idea.
Pronoun
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Types of pronouns
Personal Indefinite Demonstrative Interrogative Relative Possessive Reflexive Reciprocal
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What type of pronouns I, me, mine you, your, yours she, her, hers, it, its we, us, our, ours they, them, their, theirs myself yourself
Personal
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Type of pronoun anybody each either none someone, one, etc
Indefinite
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Type of pronoun this that these those
Demonstrative
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Type of pronoun who whom what which whose
Interrogative
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Modifies or describes a noun or pronoun
Adjectives
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Modifies or describes a verb, an adjective, or another adverb
Adverb
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Kind of adverbs
Interrogative adverbs
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Kind of adverb that introduce questions
Interrogative adverb
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introduces a noun or pronoun or a phrase or clause functioning in the sentence as a noun.
Preposition
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The word or word group that the preposition introduces is its
Object
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RELATES A NOUN OR PRONOUN TO ANOTHER WORD IN THE SENTENCE
Preposition
39
They received a postcard from Bobby telling about his trip to Thailand. What type of lexical category?
Preposition
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is a word that joins words or groups of words
conjuction
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CONNECTS WORDS OR INDIVIDUAL GROUPS OF WORDS -AND, BUT, OR, NOR,FOR, SO, YET -EITHER, OR, NEITHER, NOR
Conjunction
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is an exclamatory word that expresses emotion
interjection