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HESI A2 GRAMMARVOCAB

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Question 1: Personal Pronoun

Answer:

refers to a specific person, place, thing, or idea by indicating the person speaking (e.g. we, you, them)

Question 2: Noun

Answer:

word or group of words that names a person, place thing, or idea.

Question 3: Subject

Answer:

a word, phrase, or clause that names whom or what the sentence is about.

Question 4: Predicate Nominative

Answer:

a noun or pronoun that follows a linking verb and helps to explain the subject.

Question 5: Pronoun

Answer:

a word that takes the place of a noun, another pronoun, or a group of words acting as a noun. (e.g.their)

Question 6: Dependent Clause

Answer:

does not express a complete thought and therefore cannot stand alone as a sentence. (e.g. As soon as the students were seated...)

Question 7: Indirect Object

Answer:

the person or thing that is indirectly affected by the action of the verb.

Question 8: Run-On Sentence

Answer:

occurs when two or more complete sentences are written as though they were one sentence.

Question 9: Abstract Noun

Answer:

the name of a quality or a general idea. (e.g. persistence, democracy)

Question 10: Adverb

Answer:

word, phrase, or clause that modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb. (e.g. quite)

Question 11: Conjunction

Answer:

joins words, phrases, or clauses. (e.g. and, but, or, so, nor, yet)

Question 12: Verb

Answer:

word or phrase that is used to express an action or a state of being. (e.g. works, worked, will work)

Question 13: Predicate Adjective

Answer:

an adjective that follows a linking verb and helps to explain the subject.

Question 14: Subject-Verb Agreement

Answer:

subject must agree with its verb in number.

Question 15: Predicate

Answer:

part of the sentence that tells what the subject does or what is done to the subject.

Question 16: Independent Clause

Answer:

expresses a complete thought and can stand alone as a sentence. (e.g. The professor distributed the examinations...)

Question 17: Comma in a Compound Sentence

Answer:

a sentence that has two or more independent clauses. (two standalone statements)

Question 18: Proper Noun

Answer:

the official name of a person, place, or a thing. Proper nouns are capitalized. (e.g. Susan, Houston)

Question 19: Interjection

Answer:

word or phrase that expresses emotion or exclamation. (e.g. yikes, whew)

Question 20: Adjective

Answer:

word, phrase, or clause that modifies a noun or pronoun. (e.g. hard, three, many)

Question 21: Preposition

Answer:

shows the relationship of a noun or pronoun to some other word in the sentence (e.g. as, at, before, on, off)

Question 22: Sentence

Answer:

a group of words that expresses a complete thought.

Question 23: Possessive Pronoun

Answer:

a form of personal pronoun that shows possession or ownership. (e.g. my, mine, his, hers)

Question 24: Phrase

Answer:

a group of two or more words that acts as a single part of speech in a sentence.

Question 25: Clause

Answer:

a group of words that has a subject and a predicate.

Question 26: Collective Noun

Answer:

a noun that represents a group of persons, animals, or things. (e.g. family, flock, furniture)

Question 27: Direct Object

Answer:

the person or thing that is directly affected by the action of the verb. (answers what, whom after the transitive verb)

Question 28: Common Noun

Answer:

the general, not the particular name of a person, place, or a thing (e.g. nurse, hospital, syringe)