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HESI Grammar
Flashcards do conjunto (16)
- 1Common noungeneral, not particular, name of a noun
(nurse, hospital, syringe) - 2Proper nounoffical name of noun
(Fred, Paris, Washington University) - 3Abstract nounname of a quality or general idea
(persistence, democracy) - 4Collective nounrepresents a group of nouns
(family, flock, furniture) - 5Pronounwords that take place of the noun
(he, she, them) - 6Antecedentthe 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 - 7Possessive pronounpronoun that shows possession
(my, mine, his) - 8Adverbword, phrase, or clause that modifies a verb
(The nurse wears /very/ colorful uniforms) - 9Conjuctionjoins words and phrases
(and, but, or, so nor, for) - 10Interjectionexpresses emotion or exclamation;
no grammatical connection
(/Yikes/, that test was hard)
(/Whew/, that test was easy) - 11Direct objectanswers the question what or whom
(The students watch the professor distribute the examination)
Whom did the students watch? The professor - 12PredicateTells 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 - 13Singular 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) - 14Plural verbs (are, was, had, have)and, both
all
any, several - 15Subj 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
- 16"most"?depends of the obj following it
(most of the newspaper IS wet)
(most of the girls ARE wet)
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- Parts of speech, Subj-verb agreement, Mis-used words
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- Criado por Jasmine Tran · 26 set 2016
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