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What type of noun refers to a specific person, place, or thing?
Which type of verb connects the subject to additional information?
What type of adjective describes a quantity?
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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Study Notes
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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Test your knowledge of English grammar basics, including parts of speech, sentence structure, tenses, and vocabulary. Learn about nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, and more.
