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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Grammar | a way of thinking about language |
| Four levels of Grammar | parts of speech, parts of sentence, phrases, clauses |
| Parts of Speech | the eight kinds of words in English |
| Noun | the name of a person, place, thing or idea |
| Pronoun | a word that takes the place of a noun |
| List the Subject pronouns | I, you, he, she, it, we, you, they |
| Object Pronouns | pronouns used as direct or indirect objects, and objects of prepositions |
| List the object pronouns | me, you, him, her, it, us, you, them |
| Adjective | a word that modifies a noun or pronoun |
| Article | the three adjectives, a, an, and the |
| Definite article | the adjective the |
| indefinite article | the adjectives a and an |
| Three degrees of adjectives | positive, comparative, superlative |
| Verb | a word that shows action, being, or links a subject to its subject complement |
| conjunction | a word that joins two words or two groups of words |
| List all the coordinating conjunctions | and, but, or, nor, for, so yet |
| List a few subordinating conjunctions | if, as, since, when, because |
| The correlative conjunctions | either or, neither nor, not only but also |
| Preposition | shows the relationship between its object and another word in the sentence |
| Interjection | shows emotion but has no grammatical function |
| Sentence | a group of words that has a subject and its predicate, and makes a complete thought |
| Fragment | an incomplete thought |
| Subject | the noun or subject pronoun that the sentence is about |
| Predicate | the simple predicate is the verb |
| Direct Object | the noun or object pronoun that receives the action of the action verb |
| Indirect object | The noun or object pronoun between the action verb and the direct object, that is indirectly affected by the action |
| Subject complement | The noun, subject pronoun, or adjective, that is linked to the subject by a linking verb, and that tells more about the subject |
| Predicate nominative | a subject complement that is a noun or pronoun |
| Predicate adjective | a subject complement that is an adjective |
| Phrase | a group of words that does not have a subject and its predicate |
| prepositional phrase | a phrase beginning with a preposition, used as a modifier |
| appositive | an interrupting definition |
| verbal | a verb form used as a noun, adjective, or adverb |
| the three kinds of verbals: | gerunds, participles, and infinitives |
| participle | a verb form of various endings used as an adjective |
| infinitive | the to- form of the verb, used as a noun or modifier |
| clause | a group of words that has a subject and its predicate |
| independent clause | a clause that is a complete thought |
| dependent clause | a clause that is not a complete thought, but needs to be connected to an independent clause |
| the 4 clause structures | simple, compound, complex, compound-complex |
| simple sentence | a sentence with one independent clause |
| compound sentence | a sentence with two or more independent clauses |
| compound-complex sentence | a sentence with a compound structure and a complex structure |
| the four sentences purposes | declarative, imperative, interrogative, exclamatory |
| declarative sentence | a sentence that declares or makes a statement |
| imperative sentence | a sentence that is imperious, that makes a command |
| interrogative sentence | a sentence that interrogates, that asks a question |
| exclamatory sentence | a sentence that exclaims, that has an exclamation point |
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