Grammar Concepts
What punctuation should be used around a transitional prepositional phrase?
What are commas?
This adjective describes behavior that is proper, dignified, and in good taste.
What is decorous?
What is a demonstrative pronoun, and what does it point to?
A demonstrative pronoun points to a particular person or thing.
Which type of pronoun begins a question and has an antecedent that is the answer to the question?
What is an interrogative pronoun?
Identify the adverb in this sentence: "The rabbit quickly hopped away."
What is Quickly?
How does an interjection function in a sentence, and how is it punctuated?
What is expresses emotion. What is an exclamation mark and starts with a capital letter?
This verb means to feel intense aversion or disgust towards something.
What is repulsed?
Which indefinite pronouns can be both singular and plural, depending on the noun they replace?
What are All, any, more, most, none, and some?
What is the primary function of a pronoun in a sentence?
A pronoun replaces a noun to avoid repetition.
What error is made when sentences lack punctuation?
What are Run-on sentences
What are the most common interrogative pronouns used to ask questions?
What are what, which, who, whom, and whose?
this adjective refers to someone who is stubbornly refusing to change their opinion or chosen course of action.
What is obstinate?
In the sentence "This was an unusual frog," what is the antecedent for the demonstrative pronoun "this"?
What is the noun "frog?"
In the sentence "The king showed hospitality to the frog," what is the direct object?
Hospitality, because it answers the question "What did the king show?"
How can you fix a fragment?
Add a subject and a verb to create a complete thought.
What punctuation is used to show possession?
good/bad, fun, a lot, pretty/ugly, Happy/sad, (may list others)
This noun describes the quality of being very attentive to detail, often to the point of being difficult to please.
What is Fastidiousness?
What are the three points of view of pronouns in English?
What is 1st person, 2nd Person, 3rd Person
What is a predicate noun, and how does it function in a sentence?
A predicate noun follows a linking verb and renames the subject, providing another name for the same person, place, thing, or idea.
Define a run-on sentence.
A sentence that improperly connects two independent clauses without proper punctuation or conjunction.
When should you use a comma?
To separate items in a list before a conjunction in a compound sentence, and after an introductory element.
This adjective characterizes something that is gradually decreasing or becoming smaller in size or amount?
What is dwindling?
How does a reflexive pronoun function in a sentence?
It reflects the subject of the same clause and ends in -self or -selves.
Define a complex sentence.
A sentence that includes one independent clause and at least one dependent clau
Explain the use of a semicolon.
What is A semicolon is used to connect closely related independent clauses or to separate items in a complex list?