Painless Grammer Flashcards
(19 cards)
Antecedent
Noun that the pronoun takes the place of.
Zack gave his sister her doll.
Zack = antecedent his
Sister = antecedent her
Subjective
Doer pronoun
I throw
Objective
Receiver pronoun
To me
Possessive
Owner pronoun
My throw
Two people proper
Put yourself second
Mike and me
Infinitive
Verb with to in front of it
To run quickly.
Splitting an infinitive
Putting one or more word between to and the verb.
To quickly run.
Gerunds
Put -ing on the end of a verb. You can turn the verb into a noun (gerund)
Running is fun.
Subjunctive
Using were
If the sentence is a what if or an if only sentence. Also used for suggestions, commands, urgency, or recommendations. Not a sentence of fact.
Lie, lay, lain, lie, lay, lain
If place or put sounds right than it is lay
If not than it is lie
Adjective
Describes a noun or a pronoun and tells which one, what kind, or how many.
Adjectives go with linking verbs.
Adverb
Describes a verb, an adjective, or another verb and tells where, when, how, how often or how long, how much. Most are adjectives with an
-ly tail.
Adverbs go with action verbs.
Linking verbs
Substitute seems, if it sounds ok it is a linking verb
The hamburger meet smells bad
The hamburger meet seems bad
I smelled the hamburger meat carefully
I seem the meat - no
Pronoun
Stands in for a noun.
She likes her.
Conjunction
And, but, yet, for, so, or, either, because
Correlative conjunction
Either-or
Not only-but also
Neither-nor
Both-and
Compound subject
2 nouns
Hidden subject
Eat your spinach
Subject=you
Clause vs. phrase
Clause has a subject and a verb
A phrase does not
