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Hesi A2 Grammer
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- 1NounDefinition: Person, place, or thing.
Example: She, he, it, hospital, or ball - 2PronounDefinition: Replace nouns and make sentences sound less repetitive.
Example: Singular; I, me, mine, you, your, he, or him.
Plural: We, us, our, they. - 3VerbDefinition: Action words
Example: Running, playing, writing, walking, or crying. - 4AdjectivesDefinition: Words that describe a noun.
Example: Little boy, big girl, smart boy, or nice person. - 5AdverbDefinition: Describe verbs, adjectives, and even other adverbs.
Example: The doctor had recently hired a new employee. Recently is the adverb as it tells us more about how the action hire took place. - 6PrepositionsDefinition: Describes the location of the noun or pronoun.
Example: The nurse parked her car in a parking garage. In describes the position of the car in relation to the garage. - 7ConjunctionsDefinition: Connect words, phrases, and clauses.
Example: FANBOYS; for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so. - 8FANBOYSDefinition: Used to join independent clauses that can stand alone in a sentence.
Example: The nurse prepared the patient for surgery, and the doctor performed the surgery. Conjunction and joins together two independent clauses. - 9Dependent ClausesDefinition: Cannot stand on its own.
Example: She had to ride the subway because her car was broken. Conjuction because joins together the two clauses. - 10InterjectionsDefinition: Like wow and hey, express emotion.
Example: Wow, hey, hi, or awesome - 11CommaDefinition: Joins two independent clauses with a coordinating conjunction.
- 12SemicolonDefinition: Joining together two dependent clauses (never with a conjunction)
- 13ColonDefinition: Introducing a list, explanation, or definition.
- 14ApostropheDefinition: Form contractions and show possession/ownership.
Example: Contractions like it's = 'S
plural & possessive = S'
Singular = 'S
Name ends in S = S'
Women = women's; Boys = boys'; hers,yours, theirs, whose, ours = No apost. - 15Simple SentenceDefinition: Has one independent clause and no depenent clauses.
Example: Two word sentence like, I ran. - 16Compound SentenceDefinition: Has two or more independent clauses and no dependent clauses.
Example: Uses commas & coordinating conjunctions (FANBOYS) like, My computer broke, so I took it to be repaired. - 17Complex SentenceDefinition: Has one independent clause and atleast one dependent clause.
Example: If you lie down with dogs, you'll wake up with fleas. First clause is dependent and second clause is independent. - 18Compound-complex sentencesDefinition: Has two or more independent clauses and at least one subordinate clause.
Example: Even though David was a vegetarian, he went with his friends to the steak houses, but he focused on the conversation instead of the food.
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