Fr. Durso Exam
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- Indefinite
- prounoun that vaguely refers to people, places, or things, often without specifying which ones
- Noun
- the name of a person, place or thing
- Adverbial
- Prepositional phrases that are at the beginning of a sentence are always:
- Transitive
- verbs that have subjects or objects that receive the action
- D.O
- When "to" is omitted from an infinitive phrase, the phrase is always: (abbr.)
- Coordinating Conjunctions
- For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So
- Demonstrative Pronouns
- this, that, these, those
- Helping
- A verb that can be added to another verb to make one whole verb phrase
- Dummy Subjects
- here, there
- Linking
- a verb that connects a word at the beginning of a sentence
- Personal Pronouns
- I, me, he, she, it, they, them, you
- Preposition
- has an object and shows a relationship between it and another word in the sentence
- Predicate nominative
- completes a linking verb and renames the subject
- Infinitives without to
- dare, help, make, see, hear, let, watch, please
- Indefinite article
- indicates that the noun refer to any people, places, or things
- Pronoun
- takes the place of a noun
- Objective Complement
- A noun or adjective that gives more information about the Direct Object
- Infinitive
- a verbal that is "to plus a verb form." It can be a noun, an adjective, or an adverb
- The word directly after it
- Introductory participial phrases always modify:
- Verb
- shows action or a state of being
- Action
- a verb that shows what the subject is performing
- Antecedent
- The word for which the pronoun stands is called its
- Reflexive
- pronoun that ends in -self or -selves and adds information to a sentence by pointing back to a noun or pronoun earlier in the sentence
- equals
- The verb in a sentence having a predicate nominative can always be replaced by the word
- Personal
- pronoun that refers to the speaker or speakers, those spoken to, or those spoken about
- Adjective
- modifies nouns or pronouns and answers the question what kind, which one, how much, how many
- Conjunction
- joins words, phrases, and clauses
- Correlative
- conjunctions that are always in pairs
- Intensive or Reflexive Pronouns
- myself, ourselves, yourself, yourselves, himself, themselves
- Adverbs
- articiples are always modified by:
- Relative
- pronoun that joins dependent clauses to independent clauses; begins a subordinate clause
- Verbal
- a verb form used as some other part of speech
- Relative Pronouns
- who, whom, whose, which, that
- Correlative Conjunctions
- Neither...nor, Either...or, Not only... but also, Both...and
- But, Except
- Two prepositions that take an infinitive O.P
- Linking Verbs
- appear, feel, look, seem, sound, taste, become, grow, remain, smell, stay, turn
- Interrogative
- Pronoun that asks a question, usually at the beginning of a sentence
- Participle
- a verbal that is used as an adjective
- Adverb
- modify verbs, adjectives and other _______ answers the question how, when, where, to what extent
- Subordinating
- conjunctions that join dependent clauses to independent clauses
- Coordinating
- conjunctions that join words, phrases, or clauses of equal rank
- Appositive
- a noun or pronoun that identifies or renames the noun or pronoun that it follows
- direct object
- receives the action performed by the subject. The verb used is always an action verb
- Adjectival
- __________ prepositional phrases modify the word directly in front of it
- Intensive
- a pronoun that ends in -self or -selves and simply adds emphasis to a noun or pronoun in the same sentence
- Gerund
- a verbal that always ends in ing and is used as a noun. It can do anything a noun can do
- Intransitive
- verbs that have no reciever of the action
- Interjection
- shows feeling, placed at the beginning of a sentence and is seperated with a comma, or exclamation point
- Definite article
- indicates that the noun refers to a specific person, place or thing. Ex. "The" Ohio State University
- Demonstrative
- pronoun that brings direct attention to specific people, places, or things; they point it out