Unit 1: Growing Up — Grammar

Question 1

What are the Parts of Speech?

Answer 1

Adjectives, Adverbs, Conjunctions, Interjections, nouns, prepositions, pronouns, and verbs

Question 2

In English, what is the most populous part of speech?

Answer 2

Nouns

Question 3

What is a noun?

Answer 3

A noun is a word that names a person, place, thing, or idea

Question 4

What two categories can nouns be divided into, based on touch?

Answer 4

Concrete and Abstract nouns

Question 5

What are concrete nouns?

Answer 5

A noun that names people, places, and things that you can see or touch

Question 6

What are abstract nouns?

Answer 6

A noun that names ideas and qualities

Question 7

What two categories can nouns be divided into, based of specification?

Answer 7

General nouns (ex: fruit) and specific nouns (ex: apple)

Question 8

True or False: A proper noun can sometimes include more than one word, yet still be considered one noun

Answer 8

True; “Taj Mahal”

Question 9

What is a compound noun?

Answer 9

A noun that includes more than one word

Question 10

What are the three forms of a compound noun?

Answer 10

Hyphenated, separate words, or combined; use dictionary

Question 11

What is a collective noun?

Answer 11

A noun that names a group of people or things

Question 12

What does the term “parts of speech” refer to?

Answer 12

The classification of words according to their common uses in sentences

Question 13

What sometimes added as the ninth part of speech?

Answer 13

The “Article”

Question 14

What are the four basic parts of speech called?

Answer 14

“Form Classes” including: nouns and pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs

Question 15

What groups do “function words” fall into?

Answer 15

Prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections

Question 16

What is a sentence built up from?

Answer 16

Words in the four basic classes

Question 17

What are Demonstrative Pronouns?

Answer 17

Pronouns that point out a particular person or thing, including: This, That, These, Those

Question 18

What is a relative pronoun?

Answer 18

Pronouns that join an adjective clause or a noun clause to an independent clause, including: Who, Whom, Which, That, Whose, Where, When, Why, and What

Question 19

What is a Verbal?

Answer 19

Verbs that function as other parts of speech, such as nouns, adjectives, and adverbs

Question 20

What are Gerunds?

Answer 20

Verbs ending in “-ing” that function as nouns

Question 21

What are Participles?

Answer 21

“Parts” of a verb that need an auxiliary, or helping, verb to function. When appearing as a participle, a verbal functions as an adjective

Question 22

What are Infinitives?

Answer 22

Infinitives are formed by placing the word “to” in front of the present tense form of a verb. It functions as an adjective, an adverb, or noun

Question 23

What is an antecedent?

Answer 23

The noun a pronoun refers to or replaces

Question 24

What are the three categories a personal pronoun can be divided in?

Answer 24

1st person (Singular/Plural), 2nd person (Singular/Plural), and 3rd person (Singular/Plural)

Question 25

What do reflexive and intensive pronouns do?

Answer 25

They refer to or emphasize another noun or pronoun. These pronouns are formed by adding “-self” of “-selves” to certain personal pronouns

Question 26

What is a reflexive pronoun?

Answer 26

A pronoun that reflects back to a noun or a pronoun mentioned earlier in the sentence

Question 27

What is an intensive pronoun?

Answer 27

A pronoun that is used directly after its antecedent to intensify, or emphasize, a statement

Question 28

True or False: A reflexive pronoun is necessary to the meaning of a sentence, an intensive pronoun is not

Answer 28

True

Question 29

True or false: Never use reflexive or intensive pronouns b themselves

Answer 29

True

Question 30

What is an Indefinite pronoun?

Answer 30

A pronoun that refers to unnamed people, places, thing, or ideas. They often do not have definite antecedents as personal pronouns do

Question 31

Plural Indefinite Pronouns:

Answer 31

Both, few, many, others, several

Question 32

Singular/Plural Indefinite Pronouns:

Answer 32

All, any, more, none

Question 33

What is an interrogative pronoun?

Answer 33

Pronouns that are used to ask questions: What, which, who, whom, and whose

Question 34

What are reciprocal pronouns?

Answer 34

The pronouns “each other” and “one another” that show that the action is two-way

Question 35

What is a verb?

Answer 35

A word that shows action or a state of being

Question 36

What two categories can action verbs be categorized in?

Answer 36

Transitive and Intransitive

Question 37

True or False: Most action verbs show physical action but some show mental action and ownership, or possession

Answer 37

True

Question 38

What is an auxiliary?

Answer 38

Helping verb

Question 39

What is a verb phrase?

Answer 39

A verb phrase includes a main verb plus any helping verbs

Question 40

True or False: A verb phrase may contain more than one helping verb, but it may also be interrupted by other words

Answer 40

True

Question 41

Common helping verbs of “be”:

Answer 41

Am, is, are, was, were, be, being, been

Question 42

Common helping verbs of “have”:

Answer 42

Has, have, had

Question 43

Common helping verbs of “do”:

Answer 43

Do, does, did

Question 44

Common helping verbs:

Answer 44

May, might, must, can, could, shall, should, will, would

Question 45

What is a transitive verb?

Answer 45

An action verb that passes the action from a doer to a receiver

Question 46

What is an intransitive verb?

Answer 46

A verb that express an action or states something about the subject, but has no object

Question 47

What is a linking verb?

Answer 47

A verb that expresses a state of being; it connects the subject of a sentence to a word that gives information about the subject. The word either renames or describes the subject

Question 48

All linking verbs are forms of what verb?

Answer 48

“Be”; any verb phrase ending in “be” or “been” is a form of “be” and can be used as a linking verb, but not always

Question 49

What is a subject complement?

Answer 49

The word that renames or describes the subject

Question 50

What is a proper adjective?

Answer 50

An adjective formed from a proper noun

Question 51

What is a compound adjective?

Answer 51

Adjectives that are made up of two or more words

Question 52

“An”, “a”, and “the” make up a special group of adjectives called what?

Answer 52

The Articles

Question 53

What parts of speech do adverb modify?

Answer 53

A verb, an adjective, or another adverb

Question 54

What word, and it’s contraction, is always an adverb?

Answer 54

“Not” and “n’t”

Question 55

What are prepositions?

Answer 55

Words that show relationships between nouns or pronouns and another word in the sentence

Question 56

What are conjunctions?

Answer 56

Connecting words

Question 57

What is a compound preposition?

Answer 57

A preposition that is made up of two or more words

Question 58

What is the “object of a preposition”?

Answer 58

The noun or pronoun at the end of a prepositional phrase

Question 59

What does a prepositional phrase begin with and end with?

Answer 59

It begins with a preposition and ends with a noun or pronoun

Question 60

What is a coordinating conjunction?

Answer 60

A single connecting word

Question 61

What is a correlative conjunction?

Answer 61

Pairs of connecting words

Question 62

What are interjections?

Answer 62

Words that are used to express emotion, such as “Hey” or “Oh”

Question 63

How are interjections separated in a sentence?

Answer 63

When interjections appear in a sentence, they are separated from the rest of the sentence with a period or a comma