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| Question | Answer |
| noun | person place thing |
| adverbs | answers why and how |
| what do adjectives modify? | modifies nouns and pronouns |
| what are verb tenses? | auxiliary regular irregular |
| what do past participles have to have? | have-ing verb |
| what is something present participles have? | the be-ing verb |
| what else can present AND past participles be? | adjectives |
| what else can PRESENT participles be? | gerunds example: Valerie hates cooking |
| what is a morphene? | the smallest unit of meaning in a word |
| whats the difference between passive and active voice? | PASSIVE: doesn't present the action;s main actor. ACTIVE: gives subject the action of the sentence |
| what are adverbs? | parts of a sentence that can be moved |
| what are GERUNDS? | GERUNDS: are verbs acting as nouns |
| what are phrases? | they can be one word or twenty. they range from clauses to parts of speech |
| independent clauses? | complete sentence subject +predicate |
| dependent clauses? | incomplete sentence subject without predicate or vice versa |
| what are the verb phrases? | transitive verbs:subject+direct object intransitive verbs: only subject auxiliary verbs:linking verb/helping verb being verb: am is are was were be being been have verbs: have has was do verbs: do does did Modal verbs: shall will should would may might must can could |
| what are the being verbs? | am is are was were be being been |
| what are the have verbs? | have has had |
| what are the do verbs | do does did |
| what are the modal verbs? | shall will should could would may might must |
| how many lines do sonnets have and what are the two different kinds of sonnets? | sonnets have 14 lines and the two types of sonnets are pretrachan (aka Italian sonnets) and Shakespearean sonnets |
| what do periods do? | end of independent clause. |
| what does an exclamation do? | loud and proud rarely used in formal writing |
| what does a colon do? | come after independent clause signals more information to expect such as the following lists, quotes, &dramatic conclusion |
| what are the subordinate conjunctions? | because although while when before since after |
| LAY vs LIE | Lay requires a direct object ex:lay IT down Lie does not require a direct object ex:i need to lie down |
| what are conjunctive adverbs? | however thus therefore ergo etc |
| abate | lessen |
| abdicated | given up responsibility for |
| abjure | to renounce to give up under oath |
| acquiesce | agree to accept quietly |
| adversary | opponent |
| aesthetic | sensitive to beauty or good taste |
| ameliorate | to make or become better |
| arbitrary | based on whims or individual preferneces |
| arduous | difficult |
| ascribe | to credit or assign as to a cause or source |
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