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Praxis II Language And Linguistics Grammar Parts Of Speech

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. 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.






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






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






4. Phrase that includes the participle - its modifier - and its objects; example: The child - FLASHING A MISCHIEVOUS SMILE - turned and walked away.






5. This - that - these - those






6. Contains the main verb and helping verbs






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






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






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






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






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






12. 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






13. Tells which one; examples: this - that - these - and those






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






15. When using pronoun - the noun to which it refers; example: HE heard. NICHOLAS heard. // pronouns should agree with number and gender; example: NICHOLAS heard a LIBRARIAN tell STORIES.






16. Tense with the past participle and helping verb HAVE and HAS






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






18. Joins the subject and the predicate






19. Names things you can see and touch; examples: pizza - kitten - diamond






20. 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






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






22. A word or group of words that expresses strong feeling; example: WELL - Snoopy is at the typewriter again.






23. Used as a subject or part of a the subject in a sentence; WE are ready to go.






24. Use as an object pronoun; example: To _____ am I speaking?






25. 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.






26. Tense with the past participle and helping verb HAD






27. Noun or pronoun that receives the action of a verb; tells who or what receives the action; example: Bobby loved his PARENTS.






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






29. Verb that tells the time of the action or being






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






31. Pronoun that ends in - self or - selves






32. Names more than one person - place - or thing; example: principals - switches - communities - toys - leaves - roofs - radios - potatoes - feet - sheep






33. 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)






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






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






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






37. Another - each - neither - many - all - more - other - both - either - few - several - any - most - some






38. Is the noun or pronoun that follows the preposition; example: The sands of the BEACH were white.






39. Connects words or word groups






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






41. 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






42. 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






43. 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)






44. 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.






45. I - me - mine - my - we - us - our - ours - you - your - yours - he - she - him - her - his - it - them - them - their - theirs - its






46. Action - linking - helping - phrases






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






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






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






50. Adverbs such as lowest - nearest - most slowly; fastest - most seriously






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