Hesi A2 Grammer

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Noun:

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

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Common Noun:

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: the general, not the particular name of a person, place, or a thing
(e.g. nurse, hospital, syringe)

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Proper Noun:

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: the official name of a person, place, or a thing. Proper nouns are capitalized.
(e.g. Susan, Houston)

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Abstract Noun:

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: the name of a quality or a general idea.
(e.g. persistence, democracy)

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Collective Noun:

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: a noun that represents a group of persons, animals, or things.
(e.g. family, flock, furniture)

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Pronoun:

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: a word that takes the place of a noun, another pronoun, or a group of words acting as a noun. (e.g. their)

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Personal Pronoun:

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: refers to a specific person, place, thing, or idea by indicating the person speaking (e.g. we, you, them)

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Possessive Pronoun:

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: a forn of personal pronoun that shows posession or ownership.
(e.g. my, mine, his, hers)

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Adjective:

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: word, phrase, or clause that modifies a noun or pronoun.
(e.g. hard, three, many)

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Verb:

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: word or phrase that is used to express an action or a state of being.
(e.g. works, worked, will work)

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Adverb:

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: word, phrase, or clause that modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb.
(e.g. quite)

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Preposition:

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: shows the relationship of a noun or pronoun to some other word in the sentance
(e.g. as, at, before, on, off)

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Conjuction:

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: joins words, phrases, or clauses.
(e.g. and, but, or, so, nor, yet)

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Interjection:

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: word or phrase that expresses emotion or exclamation.
(e.g. yikes, whew)

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Clause:

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: a group of words that has a subject and a predicate.

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Independent Clause:

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: expresses a complete thought and can stand alone as a sentance.
(e.g. The professor distributed the examinations....)

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Dependent Clause:

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: does not express a complete thought and therefore cannot stand alone as a sentance.
(e.g As soon as the students were seated.....

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Direct Object:

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: the person or thing thta is directly affected by the action of the verb.
(answers what, whom after the transitive verb)

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Indirect Object:

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

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Phrase:

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: a group of two or more words that acts as a single part of speech in a sentance.

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Predicate:

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: part of the sentance that tells what the subject does or what is done to the subject.

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Predicate Adjective:

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

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Predicate Nominative:

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

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Sentence:

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: a group of words that expresses a complete thought.

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Subject:

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: a word, phrase, or clause that names whom or what the sentance is about.

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Subject-Verb Agreement:

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: subject must agree with its verb in number.

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Comma in a Compound Sentence:

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: a sentance that has two or more independent clauses. (two stand alone statements)

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Run-On Sentance:

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: occurs when two or more complete sentences are written as though they were one sentence.