Grammar Definitions
This quality of pronoun (only) tells if something is first, second or third
What is person?
The class of 8th grade students (is, are) going to do well on tomorrow's midterm.
What is is?
Bold, adventurous, recklessly daring
What is audacious?
She sells seashells by the sea shore contains what literary device?
What is alliteration?
Not is an article
A word that describes, limits, or modifies a verb, adjective, or adverb
What is an adverb?
The 8th grade class should have studied for their midterm during their snow holiday.
What is the modal verb in this sentence?
What is "should?"
To force compel; to restrain or hold back
What is constrain?
When an inanimate object or animal is given some human quality, emotion or ambition:
"clever as a fox"
"proud as a peacock"
What is anthropomorphism?
Another name for the nominative case is the objective case.
What is false. It is the subjective case.
This is a group of words that can be a simple sentence or can be part of a larger sentence. These will contain a subject and a predicate.
What is a clause?
Mrs. Hiney, the first, was a kind and respected grammar teacher, who loved her sixty students dearly.
What is the cardinal numerical limiting adjective in this sentence?
What is 60?
A very close friend, chum, buddy
What is a crony?
The repetition of a vowel sound in a word for example;
The boutique sells leeks from Egypt
What is assonance?
Direct objects follow linking verbs
What is false. They follow action verbs.
This voice is when the subject is the receiver of the action.
What is passive voice?
Emory ate Tatiana's snacks during the game.
What is the direct object in this sentence?
What is snacks?
Very earnest, emotional, passionate
What is fervent?
The emotional associations caused by a particular word or poem; the underlying meaning of a poem;
Childlike vs, childish
What is connotation?
The subject can never be in a prepositional phrase.
What is true. All nouns in a prepositional phrase are in the objective case and all nouns or pronouns having to do with the subject are in the nominative case.
This is a noun or an adjective that follows a linking verb and completes something about the subject.
What is a subjective complement?
Mrs. Hiney, a teacher, gave Christian, a student, a pass to go to the nurse.
What is the objective case noun in apposition in this sentence?
What is "a student?"
Serious and dignified; quiet or subdued
What is subdued?
An extravagant exaggeration, done for effect.
I told you a million times to study for this 100 page midterm!
What is hyperbole?
Linking verbs can not be in the active voice.
What is true because linking verbs can't show action.