Module 2 Flashcards
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What is a noun?
Words which name people, animals, things, places, abstract ideas, feelings, substances, or qualities.
what are pronouns?
Words which replace nouns and are used to reduce repetition.
what are adjectives?
Words which modify nouns. They present characteristics that help distinguish places, people and things; or they simply identify or quantify them.
Describe nouns and pronouns
what is an adverb?
Words which can modify a verb, an adjective, another adverb or a clause. They can indicate a place, manner, time, degree, frequency and clause.
what is a verb?
Words which describe the action the subject of a sentence is performing or the state the subject is in.
What is a conjunction?
Words that connect other words, clauses or sentences.
what are prepositions?
Words that show relationships between other things or people in a sentence such as direction, time, place, purpose, cause and manner. They connect nouns with other nouns, verbs and adverbs.
what are the 8 types of words (Parts of speech)
- Nouns
- Pronouns
- Adjectives
- Adverbs
- Verbs
- Conjunctions
- Prepositions
- Interjections
what are the possessive adjectives?
my, your, his, her, its. Our, their
what are the verb tenses?
The tenses are either time (past, present or future) or aspect (completed or continuous)
what is an example of an adverb of manner
Mark is running quickly.
what is an example of an adverb of frequency?
jane never drinks coffee
what is an example of an adverb of place
we will go THERE tomorrow
what can adverbs modify?
other adverbs, adjectives and verbs
what is a gerund
when we use a verb as a noun
what is a sentence?
a unit of expression which contains one or more clauses.
what is a clause?
a group of words with a subject and a verb.
what is a phrase
a group of words without a subject and a verb
what is the subject of a sentence?
the what or who is being referred to
what is the predicate of a sentence?
the part of the sentence that is giving information about the subject
what is a clause formed with
a subject and a verb
in an active sentence what is the object?
the receiver of the action.
what does a direct object mean?
there is only one object in the sentence.
what is a subject complement or subjective complement
after a verb that denotes a state (like has, is etc) we need a subject complement. it describes or completes the subject or a sentence. it can be a noun or adjective