What are the 5 principal parts of verbs?
infinitive, present, past, present participle, past participle
What is a noun?
A noun names a person, place, thing, activity, or idea.
What is a pronoun?
A pronoun replaces a noun in order to avoid repetition.
What is a conjunction?
A conjunction is a word used to connect words, phrases, or clauses together.
What is an adjective?
An adjective modifies a noun or a pronoun by describing, qualifying, or limiting.
A past participle is a verb + ________ or ________ or ________
-ed, -en, -t
What are the 9 uses of nouns (SPIDO PONA)?
subject noun, possessive noun adjective, indirect object, direct object, object of the preposition, predicate nominative, object complement noun, noun of direct address, appositive
What are the relative pronouns?
who, whom, whose, whoever, whomever, that, which, what, whatever
What are the correlative conjunctions?
either/or, neither/nor, both/and, whether/or, not only/but also, not/but
What are the three types of adjectives?
(hint: they answer the questions "What kind?, "Whose?", and "How Many? Which?)
descriptive, possessive, limiting
What are the verb forms of "to lie?"
What are the 8 attributes of nouns (specific, number, type)?
common, proper, singular, plural, concrete, abstract, collective, compound
What are the possessive pronouns (used as SP, PN, DO, IO, OP, OCN)?
mine, yours, his, hers, its, ours, yours, theirs
Coordinating conjunctions ________ ________ ________ ________ or groups of words such as compound subjects, compound verbs, or compound sentences.
connect grammatically equal words
What are the three degrees of descriptive adjectives?
positive, comparative, superlative
What are the verb forms of "to lay?"
to lay, lay(s), laid, laying, laid
An abstract noun names a ________, ________, ________ ________ that cannot be experienced with the five senses.
concept, quality, or condition
What are the possessive pronoun adjectives?
my, your, his, her, its, our, your, their
Correlative conjunctions always come in pairs and ________ ________ ________ ________ ________.
connect words of equal importance
What are the three kinds of possessive adjectives?
What are the verb forms of "to drink?"
to drink, drink(s), drank, drinking, drunk
A collective noun refers to a ________ ________ ________ ________.
group composed of members
What are the indefinite pronouns?
all, another, any, anybody, anyone, anything, both, each, either
everybody, everyone, everything, few, many, more, most, neither
nobody, none, one, other, several, some, somebody, someone, such
Subordinating conjunctions ________ ________ ________ ________ and relate them to the word they modify. They are used in complex sentences.
introduce adverbial subordinate clauses
What are the five kinds of limiting adjectives?