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Praxis II Language And Linguistics Grammar Parts Of Speech

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1. Noun or pronoun that follows a linking verb and renames the subject; example: Lassie has been a CELEBRITY for decades.






2. Shows ownership or possession of something; example: Jerome is learning about HIS ancestors.






3. Names any person place - thing or idea; example: pilot - city - park






4. Names one person - place - or thing; example: principal - cafeteria - stereos






5. Points out person - places - or things - but less clearly;






6. Common - proper - compound - articles - indefinite articles






7. Shows ownership by more than one person or thing; example: my friends' parents






8. A verb ending in - ing and functions as a noun; example: ESTIMATING is an important mathematics skill.






9. Does not end with - ed to form the past participle; examples; (is - are - am / was / were) ; (has - have / had / had) ; (do - does / did / done) ; ate - grown - bought - sold - spent - taken - etc.






10. Is made up of a preposition - the object of the preposition - and all the words in between: example: Who lives IN THAT HOUSE?






11. 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






12. An adjective used to compare three or more items; example: This is the HOTTEST day of the year.






13. Tells what the subject of a sentence does or did; example: She SLEEPS every day. She SLEPT every day.






14. Afterward - already - quick - hard - never - today - even - low - rather - tomorrow - how - now - then - yesterday - late - often - almost - back - long - soon - when - here - next - still - where - far - more - slow - too - fast - near - so






15. Emphasizes its antecedent; adds emphasis to pronoun or named noun; examples: I MYSELF will go.






16. Words that describes verbs - adjectives - or other -----; answers when - where - how - to what extent; modifies a verb - adjective - or -----; tells how - when - where - or to what extent; example: Our skates move EFFORTLESSLY. (how) or The ice is gl






17. A common noun that cannot be easily separated into countable units; examples: water - sand - gold - cement - air






18. Linked group of words preceding noun or pronoun; examples: who - which - that






19. An adjective used to compare two items; example: Today is HOTTER than yesterday.






20. Contains the main verb and helping verbs






21. 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






22. Tense with the past participle and helping verb HAD






23. Adjectives 'a -' 'an -' and 'the'






24. Names an idea - quality - action - or feeling






25. Includes the gerund - its object - and its object's modifiers; WRITING A BEST SELLER is the goal of every novelist.






26. Is not the main verb in a phrase; are added to another verb to make the meaning clearer; includes any forms of TO BE






27. Takes the place of one or more noun; example: I - you - he - she - it - we - they - it






28. Shows the relationship of a noun or a pronoun to another word in the sentence; example: I walked ALONG the beach.






29. Play / (is - are - am) playing --> adding - ing used with form be






30. An adjective that follows a linking verb and describes the subject of a sentence; includes forms of taste - look - feel - smell - appear - seem - and become; example: I look TIRED - but I feel FINE.






31. EITHER/OR - NEITHER/NOR - BOTH/AND join pairs of ideas






32. Verb that tells something that is happening now; example: Dena LAUGHS at the jokes.






33. AND - BUT - and OR join ideas that are similar; remember to place a comma before you write sentences; example: Craig gets in trouble - BUT he usually gets out of it.






34. Common noun that names a group with more than one member; examples: jury - brigade - staff






35. Joins the subject and the predicate






36. For - and - nor - but - or - yet - so






37. This - that - these - those






38. Tells to whom or for whom the action of the verb is done; example: Jack showed the DOG kindness.






39. Includes all linking verbs and any action verbs that do not take an object; example: My friends CRIED.






40. A word that names a person - place - thing - or idea; example: boy - Juan - river - Texas






41. Adverbs such as lower - nearer - more slowly; faster - more seriously






42. Prepositional phrase that modifies a verb - an adjective - or an adverb; examples: The porpoises performed WITH EASE. (tells how) or Shows begin ON THE HOUR. (tells when)






43. Connects an independent clause with one or more dependent clauses; examples: since - before - unless - however






44. Use as a subject pronoun; example: _____ is not going?






45. A verb that functions as a noun or adjective; the word TO precedes the verb in an infinitive; example: Someday - I would like TO WRITE beautiful poetry.






46. About - behind - above - across - as - after - between - beyond - beside - despite - during - for - inside - in - near - off - outside - onto - opposite - around - against - along - at - before - below - beneath - but - by - down - except - from - in






47. Verb that tells something that happened in the past; example: Dena LAUGHED at the jokes.






48. Played / (have - has - had) played --> adding - ed or - d with form have






49. Tense with the past participle and helping verb WILL HAVE






50. Prepositional phrase that modifies a noun or pronoun; examples: The killer whale is a species of PORPOISE. (tells what kind of species) or That whale WITH THE UNUSUAL MARKINGS is our favorite. (tells which whale)