GRAMMER PART ONE
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venutiISgod8 on November 22, 2010
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Latin | English |
|---|---|
| Noun |  person place or thing |
| collective nouns | audience fleet jury set etc. |
| personal pronoun first person | i me my mine we us our ours |
| person. pr. second | you your yours |
| personal pro. third person | he him his she her hers it its they them their theirs |
| Refelxive pronoun | refers to the subjet:brandon wrote a note to himself |
| intensive pronoun | emphasizes: Brandon himself organized pep-rally |
| demonstrative pronouns | this that these those |
| interrogitive pronouns | what which who whose? :WHO is that? |
| relative pro. | that which who whom whose :the house THAT you saw was mine. |
| indefinite pro. | all each other most either another. refers to a noun |
| adj. | modifies noun or pronoun |
| verb action | run stand move |
| linking verb | forms of be: am be will be could be had been have been etc. forms of have: has had have having |
| transitive verb | has an object: we ATE our lunch quickly |
| intransitive verb | no object:we ATE quickly |
| adverb | modifies verb adj. or another adverb |
| preposition | where a cat can go: about above across etc. like throughout upon past by for except |
| conjunction | coodinating:For And Nor But Or Yet So correlative:both...and either...or neither...nor subordinating:after because since when how unless |
| interjection | conveys emotion: ah hah! wow! well ouch whew |
| Full sentance | contains subject verb and is a complete thought |
| subject of a sentance | tells who or what :EVERYONE enjoied the movie |
| predicate of a sentace | tells somethign about the subject: lightening STRUCK |
| simple subject | main word or word group: the COACH of our powderpuff team led us to victory. |
| complete subject | simple subj. plus other words used to modify" THE COACH OF OUR PODERPUFF TEAM led us to victory |
| simple predicate | verb: the dog CHASED its tail frantically |
| complete predicate | verb and modifying words: the dog CHASED ITS TAIL FRANTICALLY |
| compund subject | two or more subjects joined by conjunction: the SHIP and its CARGO sank. |
| compound verb | verbs linked: we CHOSE a seat near the door and SAT down quietly |
| complement | completes the meaning of a verb: Jose caught the BALL... they sent us an INVITATION |
| direct object | noun pronoun or word group thst shows who or what recieve the action of a verb or shows the result:do toads cause WARTS?... brandon invite ME on a date |
| indirect object | tells to whom or to what: Dr. Venuti showed our CLASS the book |
| objective complement | helps complete the meaning of a transitive verb by identifying the direct obj. : thy considered all the prize money THEIRS |
| subject complement | identifies or describes the subject: |
| predicate nominative | in the predicate that identifies the subjet it refers to: Brandon became a famous AUTHOR |
| predicate adj. | modifies subject in predicate: the ocean is CALM.... does that plum taste BITTER? |
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