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Grammar
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Subject | person or thing doing action, being described, etc. |
| Predicate | verb, action or state of being |
| Bare predicate | verb |
| bare subject | one-word subject (noun or pronoun) |
| compound subject | subject consisting of more than one part |
| compound predicate | sentence consisting of more than one action or state of being |
| assertive sentence | subject precedes the predicate or subject is found at end of sentence to emphasize |
| interrogative sentence | question |
| imperative sentence | give commands or make requests |
| exclamatory sentence | express strong feelings |
| expletives | one or more words used for emphasis (I hope, I suppose, you know, there will) |
| noun | person, place, thing, or idea |
| pronoun | used in place of nouns to avoid repetition (his). Five groups are personal, interrogative, demonstrative, indefinite, and relative. |
| personal pronoun | I me my mine we us our you your yours he him his her hers it its they them their |
| subjective prounoun | act like the subject |
| objective pronoun | act as objects of verbs or prepositions |
| interrogative pronoun | used in a question (what, which, who, whom, whose) |
| demonstrative pronoun | make nouns or pronouns more specific (this, these, that, those) |
| indefinite pronoun | refer to identifiable but non specified nouns or pronouns (any, none, some, everyone, either). Most are singular except all, any, most, none, some |
| relative pronoun | join subordinate clauses to antecedents (nouns they are related to). who, whom, whose, which, that |