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DAILY GRAMMAR PRACTICE TERMS MONDAY NOTES (PARTS OF SPEECH): 1. 2. 3. NOUN: Person, place, thing, or idea. Common (n): names a general noun; begins with lower case letter (apple) Proper (N): names a specific noun; begins with capital letter (Detroit) Possessive: shows ownership (pos n – girl’s) (pos N-Roger’s) PRONOUN (pro): Takes the place of a noun. 1. personal (1st person: pronouns having to do with “me”; 2nd person: pronouns having to do with “you”; 3rd person: pronouns having to do with everyone else) ADJECTIVE: modifies nouns (I have a green pen.) and pronouns (They are happy.). Also, tells: Which one? How many? What kind? 1. proper adjective (Adj.): proper noun used as an adjective. (American flag) ADVERB (adv): modifies adjectives (really cute), verbs (run quickly), and other adverbs (very easily). Tells: How? When? Where? To what extent? Not and never are always adverbs. PREPOSITION (prep): shows relationship between a noun or pronoun and some other word in the sentence. a. across, after, against, around, at, before, below, between, by, during, except, for, from, in, of, off, on, over, since, through, to, under, until, with, according to, because of, instead of, etc. Examples: We went to school. We went up the stairs. CONJUNCTION (conj): joins words, phrases, and clauses 1. coordinating conjunction (cc): FANBOYS (for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so) 2. subordinating (sc): starts adv. dependent clauses (and therefore must be followed by a subject and verb) a. after, since, before, while, because, although, so that, if, when, whenever, as, even though, until, unless, as if, etc. INTERJECTION (int): expresses emotion but has no real connection with the rest of the sentence. It is set apart from the sentence by a comma or exclamation point. Examples: No, I’m not finished with my homework yet. Wow! What a great new car! VERB: shows action or state of being 1. action (av): shows action. Example: She wrote a note. 2. linking (lv): links two words together a. is, be, am, are, was, were, been, being, appear, become, feel, grow, look, remain, seem, smell, sound, stay, taste, etc. Examples: English is fun. (“is” links English and fun together.) The flower smells pretty. (“smells” is action and links flower and pretty together.) 3. helping (hv): “helps” an action verb or linking verb. If a verb phrase has four verbs, the first three are helping. If it has three verbs, the first two are helping. And so on. Can be helping verbs: is, be, am, are, was, were, been, being, will, would, can, could, shall, should, may, might, must, have, has, had, do, does, did Examples: We have been taking notes all day. (Taking is the action.) She will be cold without a jacket. (Be is linking.) TENSES 1. present (pres): happening now (jump, talk, eat) 2. Past (past): happened previously (jumped, talked, ate, fell) 3. Future (f): will happen in the future (will jump, shall talk) VERBAL Word formed from a verb but acting as a noun, adjective, or adverb. 1. Gerund (ger): verb acting like a noun. Ends in –ing. Examples: Reading is fun. (subject) I enjoy shopping. (direct object) Use pencils for drawing. (object of preposition) 2. Participle (part): verb acting like adjective. Ends in –ing or –ed (or other past tense ending) Examples: I have running shoes. Frightened, I ran down the street. It’s an unspoken rule. 3. Infinitive (inf): to + verb. Can act like a noun I like to eat. Can act like an adjective It’s the best place to eat. Can act like an adverb I need a pen to write a letter. ARTICLES (art.): a, an, the