Grammar test 12

Question 1

What is the part of the sentence which something is said?

Answer 1

Subject

Question 2

Shows how a noun or pronoun is related with some other part in the sentence

Answer 2

Preposition

Question 3

Group of related words that contains both, a subject and a verb

Answer 3

Clause

Question 4

Group of related words that does not contain a subject and a verb

Answer 4

Frase

Question 5

What is the word for which a pronoun stands?

Answer 5

Antecedent

Question 6

Word that takes the place of a noun

Answer 6

Pronoun

Question 7

What kind of pronouns are used to introduce dependent clauses?

Answer 7

Relative

Question 8

What is a verbal that is always an adjective?

Answer 8

Participal

Question 9

Verb form that is always a noun

Answer 9

Gerund

Question 10

What is the part of a noun or a pronoun that determines if is singular or plural is what?

Answer 10

The number

Question 11

If the subject is doing the action the verb is in what kind of voice?

Answer 11

Active

Question 12

If the subject is receiving the action

Answer 12

Passive voice

Question 13

What kind of mood gives a command or makes a request

Answer 13

Imperative

Question 14

Mood that states a fact or ask a question

Answer 14

Indicative

Question 15

Mood that expresses an action or condition as a conception of the mind rather than reality

Answer 15

Subjunctive

Question 16

The subject of an infinitive is in what pronoun case?

Answer 16

Objective

Question 17

What case is used to modify a gerund?

Answer 17

Possessive

Question 18

A group of words that does not express a complete thought

Answer 18

Fragment

Question 19

Two or more sentences written incorrectly as one sentence

Answer 19

Run-on

Question 20

Unity mean

Answer 20

Oneness

Question 21

Term used when you subordinate the wrong phrase

“When every paniqued, the earthquake struck”

Answer 21

Upside-down subordination

Question 22

Phrase or word in the sentence that does modify something in the sentence but is in an incorrect spot

Answer 22

Misplaced modifier

Question 23

Phrase or clause that does not logically modify any word in the sentence

Answer 23

Dangling modifier

Question 24

What type of pronoun referece is when you have two or more possible meanings on the same pronoun

Answer 24

Ambiguous pronoun reference

Question 25

Phrase that means "It does not follow"

Answer 25

Non-sequitur

Question 26

If you have 3 items in a series and two of them are gerunds and the other one is an infinitive, what kind of error is that?

Answer 26

Error in parallelism

Question 27

Any unecessary shift in subject, voice, tense, mood, person, or number, is called and error in what?

Answer 27

Point of View

Question 28

What means "only using as many word as necessary to express an idea correctly"

Answer 28

Consciseness

Question 29

Putting the word in a sentence where they have more strength

Answer 29

Emphasis

Question 30

How do you call when you start sentences in many different ways to try to achieve this?

Answer 30

Variety

Question 31

Dictionary that has not been cut down from a larger work

Answer 31

Unabridged dictionary

Question 32

In the dictionary what is the term for the word to be defined

Answer 32

Entry word

Question 33

Short vowel sound

Answer 33

Breve

Question 34

Long vowel sound

Answer 34

Macron

Question 36

"uh" sound

Answer 36

Shwa

Question 37

The term for field labels, geographical labels, time labes, usage labels

Answer 37

Restrictive labels

Question 38

Term for an expression who's meaning cannot be derived from the idividual word or expression

Answer 38

Idiom

Question 39

Dictionary entry that gives the origin and history of the word

Answer 39

Etimology

Question 40

Entry made of entry words and the addition of a suffix

Answer 40

Run-on entry

Question 41

Words similar in meaning

Answer 41

Synonims

Question 42

Highest level of usage used for academics papers

Answer 42

Standard formal

Question 43

Language of everyday speech

Answer 43

Standard Informal

Question 44

Level of usage that should never be use; it is the lowest level of usage

Answer 44

Substandard

Question 45

Outdated words that are used rarely in modern english

Answer 45

Archaic words

Question 46

Words that are not used anymore

Answer 46

Obsolete

Question 47

Going beyond the literal meaning of a word

Answer 47

Connotation

Question 48

Dictionary definition of a word

Answer 48

Dennotation

Question 49

Comparison using like, or, as

Answer 49

Similie

Question 50

Comparison that does not use like, or, as

Answer 50

Metaphor

Question 51

Words that convey its meaning to strong exageration

Answer 51

Hyperbole

Question 52

Expression which are dull or stale because of everyuse

Answer 52

Trite expressions

Question 53

The needless repetition of words or ideas

Answer 53

Redundancy

Question 54

What mark of punctuation do we use after the business letter?

Answer 54

Colon :

Question 55

What do you use to put close confirmatory information

Answer 55

Parenthesis ()

Question 56

Mark of punctuation that you use for editorial corrections comas or explanations in a quoted matter?

Answer 56

Brackets []

Question 57

What goes always outside of quotation marks?

Answer 57

Colons and semicolons