GED RLA VOCABULARY--GRAMMARWRITING MECHANICS

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GED RLA VOCABULARY--GRAMMAR/WRITING MECHANICS

EXAM QUESTIONS

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Question 1: possessive

Answer:

shows ownership. Use apostrophes with possessive nouns, NO apostrophes with possessive pronouns.ex. Daniel's job, his job

Question 2: collective noun

Answer:

a noun that represents a group of people or things, ex. army, family, crowd. Even though the noun represents a group, the noun itself is usually singular

Question 3: subject pronoun

Answer:

replaces the subject of a sentence. ex. Steven called home. HE was very worried.

Question 4: object pronoun

Answer:

replaces the object of a verb or preposition, ex. His wife called Steven. She asked HIM what the problem was.

Question 5: antecedent

Answer:

noun that a pronoun refers to. Ex. Andy's company is large. It is bigger than my company. "company" is the antecedent of the pronoun "it".

Question 6: pronoun

Answer:

word that replaces a noun, ex. I, you, he, she, it, they

Question 7: possessive pronoun

Answer:

replaces a possessive noun, ex. Steven needed Kelly's number. He called 411 to get HER number.

Question 8: irregular verb

Answer:

verb that does not follow a regular pattern, ex. I am, you are, he/she/it is, we are, you are, they are

Question 9: indefinite pronoun

Answer:

pronoun not referring to a specific person, ex. anyone, someone, few, all, none, most

Question 10: contraction

Answer:

shortens two words by combining them and leaving out one or more letters, ex. they're, here's . The apostrophe goes where the missing letters are, NOT where the words are joined. ex. don't (correct); do'nt (incorrect)

Question 11: homonym

Answer:

words that sound alike but are spelled differently and have different meanings, ex. to, too, two

Question 12: noun

Answer:

person, place, thing, or idea

Question 13: regular verb

Answer:

action or being word that follows a consistent pattern to create each verb form, ex. l look, you look, he/she/it looks, we look, you look, they look

Question 14: proper noun

Answer:

a specific person, place, thing, or idea, ex. Anne, Philadelphia. Should be capitalized.

Question 15: verb tense

Answer:

time frame for a verb, such as present tense, past tense