EN - English Grammar for the Utterly Confused.pdf

14ENGLISH GRAMMAR FOR THE UTTERLY CONFUSED✔ Pronouns✔ VerbsThe way a word is used in a sentence determines what part of speech it is.TestYourselfQUESTIONSTrue-False Questions1. A noun names a person, place, or thing.2. Common nouns name any one of a class of person, place, or thing.3. Proper nouns name a specific person, place, or thing. Proper nouns are never capitalized.4. Plural nouns show ownership.5. Verbs express action, condition, or state of being.6. There are six basic types of verbs: action verbs, linking verbs, helping verbs, transitiveverbs, intransitive verbs, and plural verbs.7. Helping verbs are added to another verb to make the meaning clearer. Helpingverbs include any form of to be.8. Adjectives describe nouns and pronouns.9. Never use an adjective after a linking verb.10. Adverbs describe verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs.11. All adverbs are formed by adding -ly to an adjective.12. Prepositions link a verb to another word.13. A pronoun gets its meaning from the noun it stands for. The noun is called theantecedent.14. Conjunctions connect words or groups of words.15. Interjections express strong emotions and are usually set off with an exclamationmark (!).Completion QuestionsSelect the word that best completes each sentence.1. Proper adjectives are formed from (common nouns, proper nouns).2. The three articles are a, an, and (the, then).3. The is called the (indefinite article, definite article).4. (Predicate adjectives, Proper adjectives), which describe the subject of the sentence,are adjectives separated from the noun or pronoun by a linking verb.