Charts E & F
Nouns and Pronouns
Nouns and Pronouns
This names a person, place, thing, activity, or idea.
What is a noun?
This modifies a verb, adjective, or another adverb.
What is an adverb?
This relates a noun or a pronoun to another word.
What is a preposition?
This verbal is to plus a verb used as an noun, adjective, or adverb.
What is an infinitive?
This is a word that asserts an action, shows a state of being, links two words together, or helps another verb.
What is a verb?
"I, you, he, she, it, we, you, and they" are examples of what?
What are nominative pronouns?
A, an, and the are examples of what kind of adjectives?
What are article adjectives?
This is the noun that always follows a preposition.
What is an object of the preposition?
This is a present participle verb form used as a noun.
What is a gerund?
As seen on Chart C, Indicative, Imperative, and Subjunctive are examples of what?
What are verb moods?
"Me, you, him, her, it, us, you, and them" are examples of what?
What are the objective pronouns?
This is the word that the adverb in the following sentence is modifying.
The boy ran quickly through the field.
What is "ran?"
The preposition, its object, and the modifiers between them create this.
What is a prepositional phrase?
This is a verb usually ending in -ed, -en, -t, or -ing used as an adjective.
What is a participle?
This is the verb voice used in the following sentence.
I love Essentials.
What is active voice?
"Who, whom, whose, whoever, whomever, that, which, what, whatever" are examples of these.
What are relative pronouns?
These are the types of adjectives that tell "whose?"
What are possessive adjectives?
These are the prepositional phrases in the following sentence.
Our Essentials class violently threw all of the pencils across the room into the big bin.
What are...
of the pencils
across the room
into the big bin?
These two types of verbals can be used in any noun role.
What are gerunds and infinitives?
Intransitive, transitive, linking and helping are examples of these.
What are verb types?
Common, Proper, Singular, Plural, Concrete, Abstract, Collective, and Compound are examples of what?
What are
Noun Attributes?
This part of speech modifies a noun or pronoun by describing, qualifying, or limiting and answers the questions: What kind? How many? Which? Whose?
What is an adjective?
These are the prepositional phrases in the following sentence.
In the summer, my family likes to go to the lake with our friends from CC.
What are...
In the summer
to the lake
with our friends
from CC?
Infinitives and gerunds are diagrammed on these.
What are stilts?
This is how you conjugate the irregular verb "to go."
What is "to go, go, goes, went, going, gone?"