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Practical English 1
Parts of Speech
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The name of any person, place, thing, or quality | Noun |
| A word that can be substituted for a noun | Pronoun |
| A word that helps to make a noun or pronoun more definite by adding description | Adjective |
| A word used to express action or a state of being | Verb |
| A word used to primarily to modify a verb | Adverb |
| A word that shows the logical relationship between a noun or pronoun and another word in a sentence | Preposition |
| A word that joins words, groups of words, or sentences; it can also show relationships between ideas | Conjunction |
| This word expresses emotion and is often followed by an exclamation point | Interjection |
| A unit of spoken language | Syllable |
| The primary stress placed on one syllable of a word | Accent |
| The main expression of human thought | Language |
| A word that names any GENERAL type of person, place, thing, or animal | Common Noun |
| A capitalized word that names a SPECIFIC person place, or thing | Proper Noun |
| A word that names a quality, condition, idea, or feeling that can't be identified by the senses of taste, touch, sight, sound, or smell | Abstract Noun |
| A word that names a specific object that can be identified by sight, taste, smell, sound, or touch | Concrete Noun |
| A word that may refer to a noun speaking, being spoken to, or being spoken about | Personal Pronoun |
| Pronouns or adjectives that show ownership | Possessive |
| Pronouns or adjectives used in asking questions | Interrogative |
| THIS, THESE, THAT, and THOSE are this type of pronoun or adjective | Demonstrative |
| This type of pronoun shows a relationship by introducing a new idea into a sentence | Relative |
| This type of pronoun refers to an unspecified noun, or sometimes just to a thing in general | Indefinite |
| The person, place, thing, or idea that a pronoun replaces or refers back to | Antecedent |
| Th most frequently used class of adjectives | Articles |
| The degree of comparison shown by the following sentence: "John is taller than Lisa." | Comparative |
| The degree of comparison shown by the following sentence: "Amy is the shortest girl in her class." | Superlative |
| An adjective that expresses a quality that is complete (which doesn't have comparative or superlative forms) | Absolute |
| The two main types of verbs | Action and Linking |
| When a form of TO BE is followed by a main verb, it is this type of verb | Helping Verb |
| When a form of TO BE is the main verb, it is this type of verb | Linking Verb |
| The function of the word MIGHT in the following sentence: "We might go out to dinner on Friday." | Helping Verb |
| Verbs have this many principal parts | Four |
| The principal part of a verb containing the TO form of the verb | Infinitive |
| The principal part of a verb ending in -ING | Present Participle |
| The principal part of a verb used with HAVE, HAS, or HAD | Past Participle |
| English verbs have this many simple tenses | Three |
| English verbs have this many perfect tenses | Three |
| This verb tense is formed using the helping verb TO BE with the present participle of the main verb | Progressive |
| The most useful and commonly used verb in the English language | TO BE |
| This verb is necessary to form the perfect tenses | TO HAVE |
| In sentences with verbs in the ACTIVE VOICE, the subject performs a specific action; in this voice, the subject is acted upon | Passive |
| Most adverbs require the addition of this word to form the comparative degree | More |
| Most adverbs require the addition of this word to form the superlative degree | Most |
| Adverbs often, but not always, end in | LY |
| The preposition, its object, and any other words contained between them make up a(n) | Prepositional phrase |
| Prepositional phrases function in sentences as | Adjectives or Adverbs |
| This type of conjunction is always found in a pair | Correlative |
| This type of conjunction joins two or more words or ideas in a sentence | Coordinating |
| This type of conjunction introduces an adverbial clause | Subordinating |
| A word may serve as different parts of speech according to its ______ within a particular sentence. | function |
| In formal writing, use of this part of speech is normally not considered to be appropriate | Interjection |
| If a verb ignores the "normal" rules of conjugation, it is given this label | Irregular |
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