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AHP/Lesson 11
AHP/Lesson 11/Grammar Basics
Question | Answer |
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noun | person, place or thing |
proper noun | refers specifically to one person, place or thing and is capitalized |
pronoun | takes place of a noun |
personal pronoun | I, me, my; you, your, he, him, his; she, her, her; it, its; we, us, our, they, them, their |
possessive pronoun | mine, yours is, hers, ours, theirs, whosse, my, your, his, her, its, our, their |
demonstrative prounouns | this, that, these, those |
relative pronouns | that, what, whatever, which, whichever, who, whoever, whom, whomever, whose |
indefinite pronouns | all, another, any, anybody, anything, both, each, either, every, everybody, everyone, everything, few, many, most, much, neither, no one, nobody, none, one, several, some, somebody, someone, something, such |
interrogative pronouns | what, which, who whom, whose |
expletive pronouns | it, there |
reflexive pronouns | myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself, ourselves, yourselves, themselves |
verb | term of action or a state/action of being |
present tense/base form of verb | shows action that is happening now |
present participle form of verb | -ing form |
past tense/past form of verb | shows action that has already happened |
past participle form of verb | -ed form |
static verbs | express a form of being (to be, appear, seem, prove, remain, look, taste, smell, feel and sound) |
dynamic verbs | express action |
helping verbs | work with other verbs to express time or mood (may, might, should, could, would, have, can, must, will, am, are, was, were) |
adjective | modifies, or limits the meaning of, a noun or pronoun (can identify, quantify or describe) |
articles | adjectives that include a, an, the |
numbers | adjectives that tell quantity |
possessive adjectives | Esther's, hers, your, etc. |
demonstrative adjectives | this, that, those, these |
indefinite adjectives | any, some, a few, all |
interrogative adjectives | which, what |
descriptive adjectives | describe color, shape, style, etc. |
adverbs | modify verbs, adjectives and other adverbs (answers when, where, how, how much); can also join two phrases or sentences (ex. however) |
prepositions | link words (nouns, pronouns or phrases) to the rest of a sentence; answers where & when (ex. in, under, on, until, during |
conjunctions | join words, phrases and clauses |
coordinating conjunctions | for, and, nor, but, or, yet, and so |
subordinating conjunctions | after, although, as, as if, as long as, as though, because, before, eventhough, if, in order that, once, since, so that, though, unless, until, when, whenever, where, whereas, wherever, whether, while |
correlative conjunctions | both/and, either/or, if/then, neither/nor, not only/but also |
interjections | add emotion to a sentence (hey, wow, alas, oh my, now) |
antonyms | words that are oppposite in meaning to each other |
homophones | terms that sound alike but are not spelled alike and have different meanings |