HESI A2 GRAMMAR ELSEVIER EXAM QUESTIONS

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HESI A2 GRAMMAR ( ELSEVIER ) EXAM QUESTIONS

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Question 1: Misplaced Modifier

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Words or group of words that are not located properly in relation to the words they modify.Ex: I fear my teaching assistant may have discarded the test I was grading in the trash can.

Question 2: Adjective

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a word, phrase or clause that modifies a noun or pronoun, answers the questions: what kind, which one, how many, or how much

Question 3: Euphemism

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a mild, indirect, or vague term that has been substituted for one that is considered harsh or offensive

Question 4: Noun

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

Question 5: Antecedent

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the word or group of words to which a pronoun refers

Question 6: Clichés

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expressions or ideas that have lost their originality or impact over time because of excessive use

Question 7: Verb

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a word or phrase that is used to express an action or a state of being; present, past, and future

Ex: the worried student, the broken pencil,

Question 8: Imperative Sentence

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An imperative sentence makes a command or request

Question 9: Compound Sentence

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A sentence that has two or more independent clauses. When two independent clauses are joined by a coordinating conjunction such as and, but, or , nor place a comma before the conjunction Ex: The professor thought the test was too easy, but the students thought it was too hard

Question 10: Exclamatory

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An exclamatory sentence makes an exclamation

Question 11: Subject

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

Question 12: Possessive Pronoun

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a form of personal pronoun that shows possession or ownership (does not contain an apostrophe) ( my, mine, his, hers)

Question 13: Adverb

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a word, phrase, or clause that modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb

Question 14: Preposition

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a word that shows the relationship of a noun or pronoun to some other word in the sentence

Question 15: Interjection

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a word or phrase that expresses emotion or exclamation

Question 16: Direct Object

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the person or thing that is directly affected by the action of the verb

Question 17: Predicate Adjective

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

Question 18: Sentence Fragments

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Are incomplete sentences.

Ex: While the students were taking the test.

Question 19: Interrogative Sentence

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An interrogative sentence asks a question

Question 20: Predicate Nominative

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

Question 21: Run-On Sentence

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

Question 22: Phrase

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

Question 23: Indirect Object

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

Question 24: Coordinating Conjunctions

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and, but, or, so , nor, for, yet

Question 25: Clause

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a group of words that has a subject and a predicate

Question 26: Dependent Clause

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does not express a complete thought and therefore cannot stand alone as a sentence

Question 27: Collective Noun

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represents a group of persons, animals, or things (family, flock, furniture)

Question 28: Predicate

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