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Ms. Lignelli Grammar
Review of everything Ms. Lignelli said would be on the grammar exam. Brandon H.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Choose the sentence that uses "since" as a sobordinating conjunction. *Since we ate the pizza, we obviously like it. *He has been gone since Saturday. | Since we ate the pizza, we obviously like it. |
| Which preps. can also be sub. conjunctions? | After, as, before, since, until. |
| Prep. or sub. conjunction? *"Since we have enjoyed the squid eyeball stew" | Sub.conj. |
| Prep. or sub. conjunction? *"Before lunch" | Prep. |
| Prep. or sub. conjunction? *"Until morning" | Prep. |
| Prep. or sub. conjunction? *"Before I eat this pizza" | Sub.Conj. |
| Use the word "set" as a verb. | He went to set the table. (Of course, there are millions of possible sentences you could come up with.) |
| Use the word "set" as a noun. | The tennis set was completed in an hour. |
| What is the test to see if a seeming preposition is actually sub. conjunction? | Remove the prep. and if the sentence still makes sense, it's a sub. conjunction. If not, it's a prep. |
| "Snow" can be used as what part(s) of speech? | Noun, verb, adjective. Noun - There is snow on the ground. Verb - I want it to snow on Thursday. Adj. - The snow shovel is the garage. |
| Use the word "foot" as a verb. (Yes, it's on that one sheet) | Is he going to foot the ball? |
| Write a sentence that uses the word "note" as a verb. Write a sentence that uses "note" as a noun. | He noted what the teacher said. We took notes in class. |
| Find the complete verb phrase. *"I can not run today". | Can run (adverbs are never part of the verb string). |
| Find the complete verb phrase. *"Here is your breakfast". | Is |
| Find the complete verb phrase. *"You should always swim after breakfast". | Should swim (adverbs are never in verb strings). |
| Find the perpositional phrase(s). *"Down the steet, Joey is sledding with his friends until 5:00am". | 1.) Down the street 2.)With his friends 3.) Until 5:00am. |
| Find the perpositional phrase(s). *"Inside the house, she was eating lemons until midnight". | 1.) Inside the house 2.) Until midnight |
| Find the perpositional phrase(s). *"I am running to the park in my jacket". | 1.) To the park 2.) In my jacket |
| When is "but" a prep.? | When "except" can be substituted in for it. |
| Define "true linking verb". | Any form of the verb "be" (am, is, are, was, were, has been, are being, might have been, etc.) "become" and "seem". True linking verbs are ALWAYS linking verbs. |
| Name 5/10 of the multiple personality verbs. Memorize more, though. Ms. Lignelli could ask for more. | Appear, feel, grow, look, prove, remain, smell, sound, taste, and/or turn. |
| Name 6/9 helping verbs that cannot function as main verbs. | May, might, must, should, could, would, will, can, and/or shall. |
| Name 10/14 helping verbs that can be main verbs. | Be, being, been, am, are, is, was, were, do, does, did, have, had, has. (Look on the half-sheet chart) |
| Find the prep. phrases: Around seven o'clock in the evening,Hal put the mixture into the saucepan on the stove and added a touch of garlic to the pan.When the sauce came to a boil,he lifted the pot off the stove and poured the mixture over the macaroni. | Around seven o'clock, in the evening, into the saucepan, on the stove, of garlic, to the pan, to a boil, off the stove, over the macaroni. |
| A prepositional phrase always acts as what? | A modifier. |
| Define dangling modifier. | A modifier that modifies something that does not even appear in the sentence at all. |
| Define misplaced modifier. | A modifier that does not clearly relate to the word that it is intended to modify. |
| Use the word "break" as a noun. | There was a break in the bone. |
| Use "break" as a verb. | We didn't mean to break the window. |
| "Light" can be what part(s) of speech? | Noun, verb, adjective, adverb. |
| Use "light" as an adverb. | He put the brick down lightly. |
| Use "light" as an adjective. | The feather was light. |
| Use "nick" as a noun. | There was a nick in the sword. |
| "May", "might", and "must" can be main verbs. True or false? | False. |
| "Should", "will", and "did" cannot be main verbs. True or false? | False. "Did" actually can be a main verb. |
| Can "shall" be a main verb? | No. |
| "Do", "does", "did", "may", "will", "can", and "shall" are all __?__ verbs. | Helping |
| Direct object comes after what? | Action verbs. |
| Can a phrase/clause act as a direct object? | Yes. |
| What is another name for predicate noun? | Predicate nominative. Know that, because Ms. Lignelli will probably use that as a question just to catch you. Or not, since the point of reading this is knowing the answers. |
| What is the predicate nominative? Annie is a new mother. | Mother. |
| What is the linking verb? Annie is a new mother. | Is |
| What is the simple subject? Annie is a new mother. | Annie. |
| Give the verb string. I can always remember my homework. | Can remember |
| Give the verb string. Martha doesn't like shrimp. | Does like. |
| If you have a sentence filled with nouns, what is an easy way to find the subject and the object? | Remove all the prep phrases. Prep phrases usually just clutter a sentence with nouns. |
| What is a compound subject? | Two or more subjects that are both/all subjects of the sentence. |
| What is a compound predicate? | Two or more predicates that share the same subject. |
| What is another name for a predicate? | The verb |
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