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Grammar Fundamentals

Subjects : english, grammar
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1. The part of the sentence about which something is said or the person - place - or thing that does the action






2. The narrator tells a listener what he/she has done or said - using the personal pronoun "you." This point of view is rare.






3. Renames or describes the direct object






4. Verb used as a command






5. A pronoun that does not refer to a specific - person - place - thing - or idea; examples: everyone - everything - everybody - anybody - many - most - few - each - some - someone - all - nothing - nobody - and no one






6. A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun - answer these 3 questions: which one - how many - what kind - e.g. articles






7. A sentence that communicate a strong emotion or surprise






8. A word that expresses action or a state of being






9. When the action begins in the past and is completed in the past (I had hoped to be finished by November.)






10. A phase that is related to a sentence in meaning though it has no grammatical relationship to the sentence.






11. Any one of a group of persons - places - things - or ideas and is generally not capitalized






12. Does not express a complete thought and cannot stand alone as a sentence - even though it has a subject and a verb - e.g. ...because she is funny






13. A sentence that makes a statement or declaration






14. A noun that is singular in form but refers to a group of people or things






15. A related group of words containing a subject and a predicate and expressing a complete thought.






16. A verb that requires a direct object to complete its meaning: they WASHED their new car.






17. A noun that can be made plural via changing the ending - usually by adding "s"






18. Tells to whom - for whom the action of the verb is done. Ex. "Claire threw JOSEPH the ball"






19. A clause that functions as an adjective and usually begins with a relative pronoun that is often omitted






20. A sentence that has one independent clause






21. A sentence in which the subject performs the action. (George built this house.)






22. Tells that something will happen in the future; uses WILL with the verb; example: Dena WILL LAUGH at the jokes






23. Is - am - was - were - can - may - will - were - did - does






24. Prepositions function as ___or ___






25. A phrase consisting of a preposition - a noun or pronoun that serves as the object of the preposition - and any modifiers






26. The word - phrase - or clause referred to by a pronoun.






27. There are two main types of ______ - pronoun reference - pronoun number singular or plural.






28. A ___________ has one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses.






29. A pronoun that points to or identifies a noun without explicitly naming it - This - that - these - those






30. A sentence that asks a question--- "Why do I have to wash my hands ?"






31. When noun or pronoun is the subject of the verb






32. Tells what the subject is or does






33. Describes subject






34. Is - seem - are - was - were - be - been - get - stay -become






35. A word or group of words that can function as a noun






36. Takes the place of a noun or nouns; they show number and gender; example: singular: I - me - my - mine - you - your - yours - he - him - his - she - her - hers - it - its / plural: we - us - our - ours - you - your - yours - they - them - their - the






37. Part of a sentence; usually missing a predicate or a subject






38. When a noun or pronoun is the direct object - indirect object or object of a preposition






39. Pronoun that asks a question; examples: who - whom - whose - what - which






40. Prepositional - Participial - Gerundive - Infinitive - Verb






41. Sentence - Clause - Phrase






42. Answer these 5 questions - how - when - where - why - how often - and NOT






43. Sentence where independent clauses are joined incorrectly - Comma splice - I ate he slept. (Need semi-colon!)






44. A ____________ has two or more independent clauses connected with a comma and a coordinating conjunction - or a semi-colon.






45. Subjective - Objective - Possessive






46. Used to show the relationship of a noun or pronoun to some other word in the sentence. Examples: in - under - near - behind - to - from - over






47. Renames subject






48. Renames a noun






49. An adjective used to compare two items; example: Today is HOTTER than yesterday. (Usually uses -er)






50. Words that show the relationship of dependent clause to the independent clause - e.g. as if than or as though once when







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