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Hesi A2 GrammarVocab
Hesi A2 Grammar Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Noun | word or group of words that names a person, place thing, or idea. |
| Common Noun | the general, not the particular name of a person, place, or a thing (e.g. nurse, hospital, syringe) |
| Proper Noun | the official name of a person, place, or a thing. Proper nouns are capitalized. (e.g. Susan, Houston) |
| Abstract Noun | the name of a quality or a general idea. (e.g. persistence, democracy) |
| Collective Noun | a noun that represents a group of persons, animals, or things. (e.g. family, flock, furniture) |
| Pronoun | a word that takes the place of a noun, another pronoun, or a group of words acting as a noun. (e.g. their) |
| Personal Pronoun | refers to a specific person, place, thing, or idea by indicating the person speaking (e.g. we, you, them) |
| Possessive Pronoun | a form of personal pronoun that shows possession or ownership. (e.g. my, mine, his, hers) |
| Adjective | word, phrase, or clause that modifies a noun or pronoun. (e.g. hard, three, many) |
| Verb | word or phrase that is used to express an action or a state of being. (e.g. works, worked, will work) |
| Adverb | word, phrase, or clause that modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb. (e.g. quite) |
| Preposition | shows the relationship of a noun or pronoun to some other word in the sentence (e.g. as, at, before, on, off) |
| Conjunction | joins words, phrases, or clauses. (e.g. and, but, or, so, nor, yet) |
| Interjection | word or phrase that expresses emotion or exclamation. (e.g. yikes, whew) |
| Clause | a group of words that has a subject and a predicate. |
| Independent Clause | expresses a complete thought and can stand alone as a sentence. (e.g. The professor distributed the examinations...) |
| Dependent Clause | does not express a complete thought and therefore cannot stand alone as a sentence. (e.g. As soon as the students were seated...) |
| Direct Object | the person or thing that is directly affected by the action of the verb. (answers what, whom after the transitive verb) |
| Indirect Object | the person or thing that is indirectly affected by the action of the verb. |
| Phrase | a group of two or more words that acts as a single part of speech in a sentence. |
| Predicate | part of the sentence that tells what the subject does or what is done to the subject. |
| Predicate Adjective | an adjective that follows a linking verb and helps to explain the subject. |
| Predicate Nominative | a noun or pronoun that follows a linking verb and helps to explain the subject. |
| Sentence | a group of words that expresses a complete thought. |
| Subject | a word, phrase, or clause that names whom or what the sentence is about. |
| Subject-Verb Agreement | subject must agree with its verb in number. |
| Comma in a Compound Sentence | a sentence that has two or more independent clauses. (two standalone statements) |
| Run-On Sentence | occurs when two or more complete sentences are written as though they were one sentence. |
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