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Flashcards by Jasmine Tran, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Jasmine Tran
about 8 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Common noun | general, not particular, name of a noun (nurse, hospital, syringe) |
| Proper noun | offical name of noun (Fred, Paris, Washington University) |
| Abstract noun | name of a quality or general idea (persistence, democracy) |
| Collective noun | represents a group of nouns (family, flock, furniture) |
| Pronoun | words that take place of the noun (he, she, them) |
| Antecedent | the subject that the pronoun refers to (The /students/ wanted /their/ test papers graded and returned to /them/ in a timely manner) STUDENTS is the antecedent of their & them |
| Possessive pronoun | pronoun that shows possession (my, mine, his) |
| Adverb | word, phrase, or clause that modifies a verb (The nurse wears /very/ colorful uniforms) |
| Conjuction | joins words and phrases (and, but, or, so nor, for) |
| Interjection | expresses emotion or exclamation; no grammatical connection (/Yikes/, that test was hard) (/Whew/, that test was easy) |
| Direct object | answers the question what or whom (The students watch the professor distribute the examination) Whom did the students watch? The professor |
| Predicate | Tells what the subject does / what is done to the subj (Everyone who attended the concert heard the conductor's announcement) "Heard the conductor's announcement" is the predicate |
| Singular verbs (is, was, has, -s) | -body, -one (everybody/someone) singular subjs w/ or, either, neither, nor, not only, but also simple food dishes w/ "and" (beans&rice) |
| Plural verbs (are, was, had, have) | and, both all any, several |
| Subj consists of a singular & plural & connected by words "or, either, neither, nor, not only, but also" | choose a verb that agrees with the subj closest to the verb |
| "most"? | depends of the obj following it (most of the newspaper IS wet) (most of the girls ARE wet) |
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