Wizeman - Unit 14 - 7Th Grade

Front 1

What is an Adjective?

Back 1

It modifies a noun or a pronoun. It answers the questions of what kind, which one, how many, how much or whose.

Front 2

What is a modifier?

Back 2

A modifier makes the meaning of another word more specific by describing or limiting that word.

Front 3

Do most adjectives come before the words they modify or after?

Back 3

Before. Some do come after but most come before.

Front 4

Can more than one adjective modify the same word?

Back 4

Yes

Front 5

What words are always adjectives?

Back 5

'a', 'an' and 'the'.

Front 6

What words are considered 'articles'?

Back 6

'a', 'an' and 'the'.

Front 7

Is a possessive noun usually an adjective?

Back 7

Yes

Front 8

When a verb form is used as an adjective, what is it called?

Back 8

a participle.

Front 9

What type of suffix/ending does a participle have?

Back 9

-ing, -d, -ed, -ty, or -en

Front 10

The crashing cars startled the barn owl.

Is this a form of a participle being used to modify a noun?

Back 10

Yes, 'crashing' modifies the noun 'cars'.

Front 11

What is a proper adjective?

Back 11

A proper adjective is a word formed from a proper noun and, like a proper noun, begins with a capital letter.

Front 12

Which of these are proper adjectives?

A. Italian food

B. Ephesian church

C. Junk food

D. Amateur Radio

Back 12

All

Front 13

Is this the use of a pronoun as an adjective

Each dog danced quite well.

Back 13

Yes

Front 14

Distinguishing a pronoun or an adjective usage in a sentence.

Each of the dogs were quite skilled

Back 14

Pronoun

Front 15

Distinguishing a Noun or an adjective usage in a sentence.

This ball is a baseball.

Back 15

Noun

Front 16

Distinguishing a Noun or an adjective usage in a sentence.

They went to the ball field.

Back 16

Adjective

Front 17

Distinguishing a Noun or an adjective usage in a sentence.

This day is thy soul required of thee.

Back 17

Adjective

Front 18

Distinguishing a Noun or an adjective usage in a sentence.

I do not really like either color

Back 18

Adjective

Front 19

Distinguishing a Noun or an adjective usage in a sentence.

Train tracks run along our back campus.

Back 19

Adjective

Front 20

Distinguishing a Noun or an adjective usage in a sentence.

Which train is running late.

Back 20

Noun

Front 21

Distinguishing a Noun or an adjective usage in a sentence.

Smart people use the English language.

Back 21

Adjective.

Front 22

Distinguishing a Noun or an adjective usage in a sentence.

God calls every Christian to be separated from this sinful world.

Back 22

Noun

Front 23

What is an adjective that follow's a linking verb and modifies the subject.

Back 23

A predicate adjective.

Front 24

Is it wrong to have a compound predicate adjective.

Back 24

No

Front 25

What are predicate adjectives sometimes called?

Back 25

Subject complements.

Front 26

What do subject complements always follow?

Back 26

Linking verbs.

Front 27

What do I do to find the predicate adjective?

Back 27

First locate the verb. Then ask the questions - what or how after the verb.

Front 28

What are the linking verbs?

Back 28

am is are was were be being been taste feel smell sound look appear become seem grow remain stay.

Front 29

Can the verbs that are considered linking verbs be used as action verbs.

Back 29

YES. OF COURSE THEY CAN. DON'T BE STUPID. SHEESH!

Front 30

What is a group of words that is used as one part of speech?

Back 30

phrase

Front 31

Does a phrase contain a subject and a verb?

Back 31

no

Front 32

What does a prepositional phrase consist of?

Back 32

A preposition, its noun or pronoun object, and any modifiers of the object.

Front 33

May the object of the preposition be compound?

Back 33

Yes

Front 34

What is a prepositional phrase that modifies a noun or pronoun called?

Back 34

An adjective phrase.

Front 35

What is a verb form used as an adjective to modify a noun or pronoun?

Back 35

A participle

Front 36

What does a participle end in?

Back 36

-ing, -d, -ed, -t, or -en (Page 82)

Front 37

What type of phrase consists of the participle together with its modifiers or complements?

Back 37

A participial phrase

Front 38

What can a modifier in a participial phrase be?

Back 38

Single adverbs or prepositional phrases.

Front 39

What does a participial phrase act like?

Back 39

An adjective to modify a noun or pronoun.

Front 40

What is the Participial phrase?

Skilled at morse code, the dude was quick with his key.

Back 40

Skilled at morse code

Front 41

What is the Participial phrase?

Directing traffic, the police officer kept further accidents from happening.

Back 41

Directing traffic

Front 42

What is the Participial phrase?

Fervently chasing the swift moving lizards , Joy caught one to chew.

Back 42

Fervently chasing the swift moving lizards

Front 43

What is the Participial phrase?

Bob, glad about his new pants, strutted around the office like a peacock.

Back 43

glad about his new pants

Front 44

What is a group of words that are part of a sentence, that contain a subject and a verb?

Back 44

A clause.

Front 45

What type of clause can stand alone as a sentence?

Back 45

Independant clause.

Front 46

What type of clause can't stand alone and does not express a complete thought?

Back 46

Dependent clause.

Front 47

What is a dependent clause that modifies a noun or a pronoun called?

Back 47

An adjective clause.

Front 48

What introduces and adjective clause?

Back 48

relatives.

Front 49

What are some examples of relatives?

Back 49

Who, whom, which, and that

Front 50

When Whose is used to introduce an adjective clause, what is it called?

Back 50

A relative adjective.

Front 51

What two purposes does a relative serve?

Back 51

1. It introduces the clause.

2. It serves a grammatical function within the clause.

Front 52

What should you place so that they sensibly modify the non or pronoun that you intend.

Back 52

Make sure to place and adjective modifiers.

Front 53

What should come immediately after the words they modify?

Back 53

adjective modifiers.

Front 54

When do you participial phrases come?

Back 54

Immediately after the words they modify or they may be at the beginning of the sentence.

Front 55

What should be set off by commas?

Back 55

Nonessential adjective clauses and nonessential participial phrases.

Front 56

What are the 3 degrees of comparison?

Back 56

positive, comparative, and superlative.

Front 57

When no comparison is expressed what degree is used?

Back 57

The positive degree.

Front 58

When two people or things are being compared, what degree is used?

Back 58

The comparative degree.

Front 59

When there are 3 or more things being compared what degree is used?

Back 59

The superlative degree.

Front 60

What two degrees are formed irregularly?

Back 60

Comparative and superlative degrees of a few adjectives.

Front 61

What do you do to avoid a double comparison?

Back 61

Never use -er and more together or -est and most together.

Front 62

When a person is a member of a group and being compared to that group what two words should be used with the comparative?

Back 62

other or else.

Front 63

What adjective should be used with items that can be counted?

Back 63

fewer

Front 64

What adjective should be used with items that is a quantity of a substance?

Back 64

less

Front 65

Is them ever used as an adjective?

Back 65

No, use those instead.

Front 66

What should you ask to find out the subject of a verb?

Back 66

Ask who or what.