Parts of Speech
What is a noun?
What is: "A noun names a person, place, thing, activity or idea"?
What are the four sentence structures?
What is: Simple (S)
Compound (Cd)
Complex (Cx)
Compound-Complex (Cd-Cx)
Name the 4 types of verbs
What is: Intransitive
Transitive
Linking
Helping
What is a pronoun?
What is: A pronoun replaces a noun in order to avoid repetition.
What are conjunctions?
What is: A conjunction is a word used to connect words, phrases, or clauses together.
What is a verb?
What is: A word that asserts an action, shows a state of being, links two words together, or helps another verb?
What are the 4 purposes of a sentence?
What is: Declarative
Exclamatory
Interrogative
Imperative
What is an intransitive verb?
What is: A verb that does not transfer the action from a subject to an object.
What are the Latin Noun Cases?
What is: Nominative - Subject
Genitive - Possessive
Dative - Indirect Object
Accusative - Direct Object
Ablative - Object of the Preposition
What is a preposition?
What is: A preposition relates a noun or a pronoun to another word.
What is an adjective?
What is: An adjective modifies a noun or pronoun by describing, qualifying, or limiting, and answers the questions: What kind? How many? Which? Whose?
What are the 5 parts of a Sentence?
What is: Subject, Verb, Capital Letter, End Mark, Complete Sense
What is a transitive verb?
What is: A verb that does transfer the action of the subject to an object.
What are the Noun attributes?
What is: Common & Proper
Singular & Plural
Concrete & Abstract
Collective, Compound
What are Subordinating Conjunctions and in what types or sentences are they used?
What is: When, where, while, as, since, if, although, whereas, unless, because
Complex & Compound/Complex Sentences
What is an adverb?
What is: An adverb modifies a verb, adjective, or another adverb, and answers the question: How? When? Where? Why? How often? How much? Too what extent? and Under what conditions?
What are the 8 parts of speech
What is: Noun, Pronoun, Verb, Adverb, Conjunction, Interjection, Preposition, Adjective
What are linking verbs and name them?
What is: A linking verb makes an assertion by joining two words. Feel, become, remain, taste, seem, appear, look, sound, stay, smell, grow, am, are, is, was, were, be, being, been.
What are 9 Noun Usages? Hint: SPIDO PONA
What is: 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?
What is: Who, whom, whose, whoever, whomever, that, which, what, whatever
What is a past participle?
What is: A past participle is a verb + "ed" used as an adjective or a verb.
What is an Interjection?
What is: An interjection is a word or phrase used as a strong expression of feeling or emotion.
What is a helping verb? Name them.
What is: A Helping verb helps another verb assert action, being, or existence. Helping verbs are do, does, did, has, have, had, am, are, is, was, were, be, being, been, may, must, might, should, could, would, shall, will, and can
Name the 5 types of Personal Pronouns
What is: Nominative Pronouns
Objective Pronouns
Possessive Pronouns
Possessive Pronouns Adjectives
Reflexive Pronouns
What are coordinating conjunctions and in what kinds of sentences are the used?
What is: For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So
Compound & Compound/Complex Sentences
What is a present participle?
What is: A present participle is a verb + ing used as an adjective or a verb.
What is an Appositive?
What is: An appositive is a noun or pronoun directly beside another noun that explains or identifies it.
What are the 4 verb attributes? Elaborate on each.
What is: Person (1st, 2nd, 3rd)
Number (Singular & Plural)
Voice (Active & Passive)
Mood (Indicative, Imperative, Subjunctive)
Name the Demonstrative Pronouns.
What is: this, that, these, those
What are phrases and clauses?
What is: A phrase is a group of words that does not contain both a subject and a verb and may be used as a single part of speech. A clause is a group of words that does contain both a subject and a verb.
What is an infinitive?
What is: An infinitive is to + verb used as a noun, adjective or adverb?
How many possible sentence types can you have combining Structure, Purpose, & Pattern?
What is: 112 different sentence types
Define the 3 Verb moods?
What is: Indicative: Makes a Statement
Imperative: States a command
Subjunctive: Implies condition contrary to fact or expresses a wish
Name the Interrogative Pronouns.
What is: Who, whom, whose, which, what
Name the types of one word Adverbs.
What is: Simple
Flexional
Affirmative
Negative
What is a gerund?
What is: A gerund is present participle verb form used as a noun.
What are the 7 sentence patterns?
What is: S-Vi, S-Vt-DO,
S-Vl-PN, S-Vl-PA,
S-Vt-IO-DO,
S-Vt-DO-OCN, S-Vt-OCA
What are the Verb Tenses: Time (3) X Form (4)
What is: Time: Past, Present, Future
Form: Simple, Perfect, Progressive, Perfect Progressive
Name the Indefinite Pronouns.
What is: 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, and such
Name the prepositions.
What is: about, above, across, after, against, along, amid, among, around, at, atop, before, behind, below, beneath, beside, between, beyond, but, by, concerning, down, during, except, for, from, in, inside, into, like, near, of, off, on, onto, out, outside, over, past, regarding, since, through, throughout, to, towards, under, underneath, until, up, upon, with, within, and without