Parts of Speech Flashcards - Chapter 1

Noun, Pronoun, Adjective, Verb, Adverb, Preposition, Conjunction, Interjection

A word or word group used to name a person, place, thing, or idea.

Replaces nouns

<p>Shows action, state of being.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Describes or modifies a verb, adjective, or other adverbs. Answers the questions, how, where, when.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Connects words, phrases, clauses, or sentences.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An exclamation that shows strong feelings.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Names any person, place, thing, or idea; not generally capitalized.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Names a specific person, place, thing, or idea; always capitalized.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Can be perceived by the senses.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An idea, feeling, quality, or characteristic.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Two or more words used together to form a noun; may stand alone but means something else when combined.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A word that names a group.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The word that a pronoun stands for or refers to.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>In the same sentence or in a nearby sentence.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Refers to one speaking, the one spoken to, or the one spoken about.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>First Person: I, me, my, mine, we, us, our, ours; Second Person: you, yours, your; Third Person: he, him, his, her, hers, it, its, they, them, their, theirs.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Gender (masculine, feminine, neuter), Number (singular, plural), Case (nominative, genitive, etc.).</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Refers to the subject of a sentence and functions as a complement or as an object of a preposition; needed in the sentence.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Emphasizes its antecedent and has no grammatical function; extra in the sentence.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Self, selves.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>1st person: myself, ourselves; 2nd person: yourself, yourselves; 3rd person: himself, herself, itself, themselves.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A word that points out a specific person, place, thing, or idea.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Meant to interrogate and appears at the beginning of a question.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Who, whom, which, what, whose.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They introduce the subordinate clause.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>That, which, who, whom, and whose.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Refers to one or more persons, places, ideas, or things that may not be specifically named.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The relationship of a noun or pronoun to another word; they indicate location or time.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Objects and they can also be compounds.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The preposition, its object, and any modifiers.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A word used to modify a noun or pronoun.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Describes.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<ol> <li>What kind? 2. Which one? 3. How many?</li> </ol> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Modify nouns or pronouns.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>This, that, these, those.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Some of the most frequently used adjectives.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A, an, the.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Before a vowel.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The; refers to someone or something in particular.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An adjective usually comes before the noun or pronoun it modifies, but not all the time.</p> Signup and view all the answers