Grammar

Question 1

What is a noun?

Answer 1

Person, place, or thing.

Question 2

Define a common noun.

Answer 2

General person, place, or thing.

Examples: nurse, hospital, syringe.

Question 3

What is a proper noun?

Answer 3

Official name of a person, place, or thing, usually capitalized.

Examples: El Camino Hospital, De Anza College, Sunnyvale.

Question 4

What is an abstract noun?

Answer 4

Name of a quality or general idea.

Examples: persistence, independence, democracy.

Question 5

What is a collective noun?

Answer 5

Represents a group of people, animals, or things.

Examples: family, flock, furniture.

Question 6

What is a pronoun?

Answer 6

Takes the place of a noun or other pronoun.

Question 7

What are possessive pronouns?

Answer 7

My, mine, his, etc.

Question 8

Define personal pronouns.

Answer 8

Can be 1st, 2nd, or 3rd person, singular or plural.

Question 9

What is an adjective?

Answer 9

Word/phrase that modifies a noun.

Question 10

What is a verb?

Answer 10

Word or phrase used to express an action or state of being.

Question 11

What are linking verbs?

Answer 11

Do not show an action; reflect a state of being or relate to the five senses.

Examples: am, is, was, were, looks, smells.

Question 12

True or False: ‘It is important that Lupita send her resume immediately’ is correct grammar.

Answer 12

True.

Question 13

What is an adverb?

Answer 13

Word, phrase, or clause that modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb.

Question 14

Define preposition.

Answer 14

Word that shows the relationship of a noun or pronoun to some other word in the sentence.

Question 15

What is a conjunction?

Answer 15

Word that joins words, phrases, or clauses.

Question 16

What are coordinating conjunctions?

Answer 16

And, but, or, so, nor, for, and yet.

Question 17

What are correlative conjunctions?

Answer 17

Neither…nor; either…or.

Question 18

What is an interjection?

Answer 18

Word or phrase that expresses emotion or exclamation.

Question 19

Define clause.

Answer 19

Group of words that has a subject and a predicate.

Question 20

What is an independent clause?

Answer 20

Expresses a complete thought and can stand alone as a sentence.

Question 21

What is a dependent clause?

Answer 21

Begins with a subordinating conjunction and does not express a complete thought.

Question 22

What are common subordinating conjunctions?

Answer 22

After, because, before, until, since, when.

Question 23

What is an indirect object?

Answer 23

Person or thing indirectly affected by the action of the verb.

Question 24

What is a direct object?

Answer 24

Answers the question of who, what, for what, to what.

Question 25

Define phrase.

Answer 25

Group of two or more words that acts as a single part of speech in a sentence.

Question 26

What is a predicate?

Answer 26

Part of the sentence that tells what the subject does or what is done to the subject.

Question 27

What is a predicate adjective?

Answer 27

Follows a linking verb and helps explain the subject.

Question 28

What is a predicate nominative?

Answer 28

Noun or pronoun that follows a linking verb and helps to explain or rename the subject.

Question 29

What are the four types of sentences?

Answer 29

* Declarative * Interrogative * Imperative * Exclamatory

Question 30

What is a subject?

Answer 30

Word, phrase, or clause that names whom or what the sentence is about.

Question 31

What is subject-verb agreement?

Answer 31

A subject must agree with its verb in number.

Question 32

What is a compound sentence?

Answer 32

Sentence that has 2 or more independent clauses.

Question 33

What is a run-on sentence?

Answer 33

Occurs when 2 or more complete sentences are written as though they were one sentence.

Question 34

What are possessive personal pronouns?

Answer 34

Forms that indicate ownership. ## Footnote Examples: My, mine, his, hers, our, theirs.

Question 35

What is a sentence fragment?

Answer 35

Incomplete sentence.

Question 36

What are misplaced modifiers?

Answer 36

Words or groups of words that are not located properly in relation to the words they modify.

Question 37

What is a participial phrase?

Answer 37

Phrase formed by a participle, its object, and the object modifiers; functions as an adjective.

Question 38

What is a cliche?

Answer 38

Expressions or ideas that have lost originality or impact due to excessive use.

Question 39

What is a euphemism?

Answer 39

Mild, indirect, or vague terms substituted for one considered harsh or blunt.

Question 40

What are troublesome word pairs?

Answer 40

Pairs of words that are commonly confused in usage.

Question 41

Affect vs. Effect: What does 'affect' mean?

Answer 41

To influence or change.

Question 42

Affect vs. Effect: What does 'effect' mean as a noun?

Answer 42

Results or outcome.

Question 43

When do you use 'fewer'?

Answer 43

Refers to number; used with plural nouns.

Question 44

When do you use 'less'?

Answer 44

Refers to degree or amount; used with singular nouns.

Question 45

What does 'i.e.' stand for?

Answer 45

That is.

Question 46

What does 'e.g.' stand for?

Answer 46

For example.