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AHP/Lesson 11
AHP/Lesson 11/Grammar Basics
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |