Midterm English Grammar
Terms
undefined, object
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- noun
- person, place, thing, or idea
- proper noun
- specific person, place, or thing
- pronoun
- substitutes for a noun
- possessive pronouns
- shows possesion
- verb
- a word that shows an action
- subject of a sentence
- noun or pronoun
- what does the adjective modify?
- noun
- what does the adverb modify?
- verb, adjective, and other adverbs
- declarative sentences
- makes a statement and ends with a period
- imperative sentences
- makes a command or request
- interrogative sentences
- asks a question ends with a question mark
- exclamatory sentence
- expresses strong feelings ends with an exclamation mark
- predicate nominative
- takes the place of the subject
- indefinite pronouns
- express an unspecified person or thing
- demonstrative
- specific people or thing
- interrogative pronouns
- begins a question
- reflexive pronouns
- ends in -self or -selves referring to an earlier pronoun in the sentence
- linking verbs
- link the subject of the sentence with a word that identifies or describes it
- indefinite articles
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a and an
refer to anyone/anything - definite article
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the
points out a particular - prepositions
- connect word in a sentence to the noun or pronoun to make a prepositional phrase
- conjunction
- joins words or groups of words
- coordinating conjunctions
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joins words that are equal in importance
ex. darren and she - correlative conjunctions
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used to pairs
EITHER Elisha OR I will call you - subordinative conjunction
- connects adverb clauses to main clauses
- interjections
- express emotion