Practice Pre ACT English

What is a noun?

A noun is a person, place, thing, or idea.

What are the two main types of nouns?

Common nouns and proper nouns.

What are common nouns?

Generic names for people, places, and things that are not usually capitalized.

Provide examples of common nouns for people.

Boy, girl, worker, manager.

What are proper nouns?

Names of specific people, places, or things that are always capitalized.

Give examples of proper nouns for places.

Los Angeles, California, New York, Asia.

What are abstract nouns?

Nouns that refer to ideas or concepts.

What are concrete nouns?

Nouns that refer to physical objects that can be perceived by the senses.

What is a collective noun?

A noun that represents a group of people, places, or things.

Give an example of a collective noun.

Class, company, herd, team.

What defines a pronoun?

A pronoun is used to stand in for nouns.

What is a personal pronoun?

A pronoun that represents a specific person or thing, such as I, you, he, she, it, we, they.

What is the difference between transitive and intransitive verbs?

Transitive verbs have a direct object; intransitive verbs do not.

Give an example of a transitive verb.

He drives a car.

What is a linking verb?

A verb that connects the subject with a complement, such as a noun or adjective.

Name some common linking verbs.

Be, seem, become, feel.

What is the active voice in a sentence?

When the subject performs the action.

What is the passive voice in a sentence?

When the subject is acted upon by the verb.

Define verb tense.

Verb tense indicates when an action takes place: past, present, or future.

What are the three moods in English?

Indicative, imperative, and subjunctive.

What is an adjective?

A word used to modify a noun or pronoun.

What are articles?

Adjectives that define nouns as definite or indefinite.

What is an adverb?

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

What are prepositions?

Words that show the relationship between nouns or pronouns and other words.

What is a conjunction?

A word that joins words, phrases, or clauses.

Name the coordinating conjunctions.

And, but, yet, or, nor, for, so.