Week 1
Names a person, place, thing, or idea
What is a noun?
Part of speech that shows action
What is a verb?
Part of speech that connects words, phrases, or clauses
What is a conjunction?
part of speech that modifies a verb, adjective, or another adverb
What is an adverb?
Replaces a noun in order to avoid repetition
What is a pronoun?
A noun or pronoun that performs a verb action; it tells who or what the clause is about
What is the subject?
Part of speech that describes/modifies a noun or pronoun
What is an adjective?
a sentence that gives a command or makes a request
What is an imperative sentence?
A, an, the
What is article adjective?
Group of words that contains a subject and a verb and expresses a complete thought, can stand alone as a sentence
What is a main (or independent) clause?
A dependent (or subordinate) clause that begins with the word who or which
What is a who/which clause?
combines two words into one; it uses an apostrophe to show where a letter or letters have been removed
What is a contraction?
A blank space between the margin and the beginning of a line of text
What is an indentation?
A descriptive word, phrase, or clause that is added to the beginning of a sentence
What is a sentence opener?
the words that make up the fun acronym FANBOYS
What is for, and, nor, but or, yet, so?
A dependent clause that begins with a www word and contains a subject and a verb: www + subject + verb
What is an adverb clause?
Ends in -self (singular) or -selves (plural) and refers to the subject of the same sentence
What is a reflexive pronoun?
The word the pronoun refers to (or replaces)
What is the antecedent?
This set of words functions as a single verb but has another word with the verb
What is a phrasal verb?
These are used to ask a question; the most common of these are what, whatever, which, whichever, who, whoever, whom, whose.
What is an interrogative pronoun?