Nouns & Pronouns
Four types of Nouns are
Possible answers: Common, Proper, Conrete, Abstract, Compound and Collective
What is an adjective?
Words that modify or describe nouns or pronouns.
What is a preposition?
begins a prepositional phrase and shows the relationship between the object and another word in the sentence
What is a verb?
express action or state of being
Identify the nouns & pronouns: A pilot and an engineer help each other to consider several factors; both look at viscosity, compressibility, and drag.
A pilot and an engineer help each other to consider several factors; both look at viscosity, compressibility, and drag.
List the types of determiners
articles, possessives, demonstrative, Interrogatives and Indefinites
Preposition or Adverb? What is the difference?
Look for an object of the preposition, since prepositions must have objects
Which are the principal parts of verbs?
Present, past, past participle
Personal pronouns reflect...
person, number, gender and case
Identify the adjectives and/or adverbs in the sentence: The Wright's first idea as a kite; however, they soon decided on building a guilder.
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Difference between subordinating conjuctions and coordinating conjunctions
C.C: joins sentence parts of the same type
S.C: joins a dependent clause to an independent clause
State the difference between Transitive and Intransitive Verbs
Tranitive verbs has an object
Intransitive verb is an action verb tht needs nothing to complete
Name six kinds of pronouns
Demonstrative, Interrogative, Indefinite, Reflexive, Relative, Reciprocal
What is a qualifier?
is a kind of adverb that only modifies adjectives or other adverbs
What is an interjection?
expresses strong feelings, agreement, or disagreement, hesitation or introduction
Describe an airport (use a state-of-being verb)
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Nearly everything in a plane takes into account the laws of motion.
Everything is an example of...
Indefinite Pronoun
When an adjective is in the predicate and appears after a linking verb it becomes a...
predicate adjective
List correlative Conjunctions
both-and
either-or
neither-nor
not only-but also
Identify the verb as action of state of being: The luxury, hundred-passenger plane could travel at twice the speed of ordinary airliners.
could travel - Action v.