English Grammar Fundamentals

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What type of noun refers to a specific person, place, or thing?

  • Proper noun (correct)
  • Common noun
  • Linking verb
  • Quantitative adjective

Which type of verb connects the subject to additional information?

  • Action verb
  • Adjective
  • Adverb
  • Linking verb (correct)

What type of adjective describes a quantity?

  • Quantitative adjective (correct)
  • Possessive pronoun
  • Qualitative adjective
  • Manner adverb

What type of pronoun shows ownership?

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Which type of adverb describes when something happens?

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What is the term for a sentence that contains two or more independent clauses joined by a conjunction?

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What is the function of a prefix in word building?

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What is the term for words that have the same spelling but different meanings?

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What is the term for the emotional association of a word?

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What is the term for a sentence that describes an action that started and finished in the past?

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Grammar

Parts of Speech

  • Nouns: words that refer to people, places, things, and ideas
    • Proper nouns: names of specific people, places, and things (e.g. John, London, Google)
    • Common nouns: general terms (e.g. dog, city, company)
  • Verbs: words that express action or a state of being
    • Action verbs: show action (e.g. run, jump, read)
    • Linking verbs: connect subject to additional information (e.g. be, seem, appear)
  • Adjectives: words that describe nouns or pronouns
    • Quantitative adjectives: describe quantity (e.g. five, tenth)
    • Qualitative adjectives: describe qualities (e.g. happy, blue)
  • Adverbs: words that describe verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs
    • Manner adverbs: describe how something is done (e.g. quickly, loudly)
    • Time adverbs: describe when something happens (e.g. yesterday, soon)
  • Pronouns: words that replace nouns in a sentence
    • Personal pronouns: replace nouns referring to people or things (e.g. I, you, he)
    • Possessive pronouns: show ownership (e.g. mine, yours, his)

Sentence Structure

  • Independent clauses: complete sentences with a subject and verb
  • Dependent clauses: incomplete sentences that rely on an independent clause
  • Compound sentences: two or more independent clauses joined by a conjunction
  • Complex sentences: an independent clause and one or more dependent clauses

Tenses

  • Present tense: describes an action happening now
  • Past tense: describes an action that happened in the past
  • Future tense: describes an action that will happen in the future
  • Perfect tenses: describe completed actions (e.g. present perfect, past perfect)

Vocabulary

Word Building

  • Prefixes: added to the beginning of a word to change its meaning
  • Suffixes: added to the end of a word to change its meaning
  • Roots: core meaning of a word
  • Compounding: combining two or more words to create a new word

Word Types

  • Homophones: words that sound the same but have different meanings
  • Homographs: words that are spelled the same but have different meanings
  • Synonyms: words with similar meanings
  • Antonyms: words with opposite meanings

Word Choice

  • Connotation: emotional association of a word
  • Denotation: literal meaning of a word
  • Idioms: phrases with figurative meanings
  • Collocations: words that commonly appear together

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