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- Define noun of direct address.
- A noun that is used to identify the person to whom one is speaking is known as the noun of direct address.
- Name the nine modals.
- Modals: can, could, may, might, must, shall, should, will, would
- Define an essential appositive.
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An appositive that MUST clarify the word that it is restating in order for the sentence to make sense is an essential appositive.
Essential appositives do not require commas.
Example:
My dog Copper drank the water.
- Define a direct object.
- A direct object is the noun that receives the action of the verb in a sentence.
- Define a non-essential appositive.
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An appositive that DOES NOT need to clarify the word that it is restating in order for the sentence to make sense is a non-essential appositive.
Non-essential appositives DO require commas.
Example:
My husband, John, ate the pie.
- Name some examples of linking verbs.
- Some examples of linking verbs: is, are, was, were, will be, has been, is being, could have been, become, remain, stay, prove, look, sound, taste, feel, appear, grow, turn, seem.
- Define an appositive.
- A noun that is used to restate another noun in a sentence is called an appositive.
- What is the function of a helping verb?
- Helping verbs help the main verb create the various tenses.
- Name the four types of sentences.
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Statements - declarative
Questions - interrogative
Exclamations - exclamatory
Commands - imperative
- Define a verb.
- A verb is the word that is doing or being something in a sentence.
- When a noun of direct address is the first word in a sentence, where do you place a comma?
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When a noun of direct address is the first word in a sentence, a comma is always placed AFTER the noun of direct address.
Example:
Victoria, come here! - What questions do you ask to identify the direct object in a sentence?
- To find the direct object: Ask who or what is receiving the action of the verb.
- When the noun of direct address is the final word in a sentence, where do you place a comma?
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When a noun of direct address is the final word in a sentence, a comma always PRECEDES the noun of direct address.
Example: Come here, Victoria. - Define an indirect object.
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An indirect object is the noun that tells to whom or for whom the action of the verb is being done.
The indirect object ALWAYS precedes the direct object.
- When the noun of direct address is in the middle of a sentence, where do you place the commas?
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When a noun of direct address is in the middle of a sentence, one comma always PRECEDES and one comma always FOLLOWS the noun of direct address.
Example: Come here, Victoria, and catch the spider! - Define a predicate.
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A predicate is what the subject is doing (action verb) or being (linking verb) in a sentence.
The predicate is the verb or the verb phrase in the sentence. - A sentence consists of what two elements?
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1. A subject
2. A predicate - Define a predicate noun.
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A predicate noun restates in a different way the person, place, thing, or idea that is the subject of a sentence. A predicate noun ONLY follows a linking verb NOT action verbs.
Example: Henry is a DOG. - Name the principal parts of the verb.
- The principal parts of the verb: infinitive, past, past participle, present participle
- Define a subject.
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A subject is the pronoun or noun (who or what) that is doing something in a sentence.
- Define a proper noun.
- A proper noun is a word used to identify a specific person, place, thing, or idea. It is always upper cased.
- Name the eight parts of speech.
- The eight parts of speech: verbs, nouns, adjectives, pronouns, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, interjections
- Define a linking verb.
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A linking verb is a verb that connects the subject with a (predicate) noun.
Example: Henry IS a dog.
(It can also connect the subject with an adjective, but we'll study this later.)
- Define modals.
- Modals (9) are helping verbs that show degrees of possibility or obligation for the verb to happen.
- Define a common noun.
- A common noun is a word used to identify a general person, place, thing, or idea. It is not upper cased.
- Do modals act as main verbs?
- Modals never act as main verbs.
- Define a noun.
- A noun is a word used to identify a person, place, thing, or idea.
- What is an adjective?
- An adjective is a word or a group of words used to modify (describe) a noun or pronoun.
- An article is a type of adjective. Name the three articles.
- a, an, the
- A demonstrative is a type of adjective. Name the five demonstratives.
- this, that, these, those, a certain
- What four questions do adjectives usually answer?
- Which one? What kind? How many? How much?
- Name the two types of adjectives?
- Limiting adjectives, descriptive adjectives
- What are the six catagoreis of limiting adjectives?
- articles, demonstratives, possessives, ordinals, quantifiers, comparatives and superlatives