Honor Hum Grammer Final 1

Common Noun

a general name for a person, place, thing, or idea and is not capitalized unless it begins a sentence.

Proper Noun

a specific name for a particular person, place, or organization and is always capitalized.

Possessive Noun

shows ownership by adding an apostrophe and often an 's' to a noun.

Verb

is a word that describes an action, occurrence, or state of being.

Adjective

is a word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun, usually before the noun.

Adverb

A word that modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb.

Pronoun

is a word that takes the place of a noun to avoid repetition.

Preposition

A word that shows the relationship between a noun or pronoun and other words in a sentence.

Conjunction

A word that connects clauses, sentences, or words in the same clause.

Interjection

A word or phrase that expresses strong emotion or surprise, often standing alone.

Auxiliary Verbs

Main verb and Helping verb. Including has, have, had, shall, will, can, may, should, would, could, might, must, do, did, and does.

Predicate Adjectives

Follow linking verbs. Always modify the subject of the sentence. Linking verbs are forms of to be such as is , was, and are, as well as “sense” words such as looks, smells, feels and seems.

Proper Adjectives

Fromed from a proper noun and thus requires a capital letter. Common endings for it are -n, -an, -ian, -ern, -ese, -ish, -ist,

Position of Adverbs

The placement of ____ in a sentence can vary, but they typically modify verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs, providing information about how, when, where, or to what extent an action occurs.

Conjunctive Adverbs

Used as a coordinating conjunction. Serves to carry the sense from one independent clause to another. For example, accordingly, also, besides, consequently, finally, furthermore, hence, however, indeed, moreover, nevertheless, otherwise, still, then, therefore, thus,

Coordinating Conjunction

FAN BOYS connects elements of equal rank. For example, and, but, or, nor, for, so, and yet. Irony in literature might be verbal or situational.

Subordinating Conjunctions

Connects subordinate clauses to independent clauses. For example, after, because, before, if, since, that, until, where, and when.

Correlative Conjunctions

Always used in pairs.These conjunctions may join words, phrases, or clauses. For example, both..and, either..or, neither..nor, not only..but (also), and whether…or.

Subject

The ____ of a sentence is the person, place, thing, or idea about which something is said.

Predicate

Tells something or asks something about the subject

Subject in Inverted Sentences

Verb comes before the subject. A writer may invert the order of a sentence for the sake of sound, variety, or emphasis. (Is the word is lowk usually the verb)

Run-on Sentences

two or more sentences written as one, with either no punctuation or just a comma between the complete ideas.

How to Correct:

1. Rewrite as two sentences

2. Comma + Coordinating conjunction

3. Semicolon ;

4. Semi colon ; + Verb + Comma

Interjection

Words or phrases used to express emotion. They are not part of the main structure of the sentence. Set off by a comma or an exclamation point, depending on the level of emotion they express.

Aw, (Come, come) on-it doesn’t really mean that, does it?

Ugh! (What,what) a disgusting image!

Fragment Sentence

lacks a subject or a verb or both, and does not express a complete idea

Complete Sentence

Includes a subject and a verb and expresses a complete idea.