COMPOSITION GRAMMAR TEST

what are the 8 parts of speech?

1. nouns

2. pronouns

3. verbs

4. adjectives

5. adverbs

6. prepositions

7. conjunctions

8. interjections

what is a noun?

a word that names a person, place, thing, or idea

what are the two types of nouns?

concrete and abstract

what are concrete nouns?

it refers to people, places, or visible things

what are abstract nouns?

it refers to ideas, actions, conditions or qualities

what is a pronoun?

a word used in place of a noun or another pronoun

what is an antecedent of the pronoun?

the noun or nouns that are replaced by a pronoun

what are the types of pronouns?

1. personal

2. reflexive/intensive

3. demonstrative

4. relative

5. interrogative

6. indefinite

what is a verb?

a word that expresses time while showing an action, condition, or state of being

what are the types of verbs?

1. action

2. linking

3. helping

what is an action verb?

it tells what action someone is doing

what is a linking verb?

it connects a word in the beginning of a sentence to a word at the end

what is a helping verb?

it can be added to another verb to make a single verb phrase

what is an adjective?

a word that modifies a noun or a pronoun

can nouns, pronouns and verbs act as adjectives when they modify other nouns or pronouns?

yes

what is an adverb?

a word that modifies a verb, adjective, or another verb

can nouns act as adverbs when they answer where or when about a verb?

yes

what is a preposition?

it shows the relationship between a noun or pronoun and some other word in the sentence

what is a conjunction?

a word used to join words or groups of words

what is an interjection?

a word or short phrase that expresses feeling or emotion and functions independently of a sentence

what is a period used for?

indicates the end of a sentence

what is a question mark used for?

it is used for the end of questions

what is an exclamation mark used for?

it shows emphasis and emotion

what is a comma used for?

it is used to separate different ideas in a sentence

what is a semicolon used for?

it is used to join two independent clauses that are related

what is a colon used for?

it can introduce an example, list, and explanation, or a quotation

what is an apostrophe used for?

it is used in place of ommited letters and to show possession

what is a hyphen used for?

it is commonly used to create compound words

what is a dash used for?

it is used to set off material for emphasis or to show connection between things

what is an ellipsis used for?

it is used to show that some letters or even words are ommited

what is a parentheses used for?

it is used to deemphasize information or add additional information

what are quotation marks used for?

it indicates direct quotations, irony, or titles

what are brackets used for?

it is used for academic writing; it can add extra information or to fix mistakes in original quotations

what is a slash used for?

it is used for fractions, measurements, or to suggest alternatives in text

what are braces used for?

it is used for mathematics, computer programming, and musical annotations

what is a subject?

it is the noun or pronoun that performs the verb

what is a predicate?

it contains a verb and states something about the subject

what is "who" used for?

it is a subjective pronoun; it should be used to refer to the subject of a sentence

what is "whom" used for?

it is an objective pronoun; it should be used to refer to the object of a verb or preposition