FREE BOOKS

Author's List




PREV.   NEXT  
|<   76   77   78   79   80   81   82   83   84   85   86   87   88   89   90   91   92   93   94   95   96   97   98   99   100  
101   102   103   104   105   106   107   108   109   110   111   112   113   114   115   116   117   118   119   120   121   122   123   124   125   >>   >|  
. An adjective phrase. What is an attribute complement? Illustrate. What is an object complement? Illustrate. Illustrate and explain the difference between simple, complex, and compound sentences. NOUNS. What is the difference between singular and plural number? How is the plural of most nouns formed? Of nouns ending in _s, ch, sh, x_, or _z_? In _y_? In _f_ or _fe_? In _o_? Of letters, figures, etc.? Of compound nouns? Of proper names and titles? How is the possessive case of most nouns formed? Of nouns ending in _s_ or in an _s_ sound? Of a compound noun or of a group of words? What is gender? How is the feminine gender formed from the masculine? What is the difference between common and proper nouns? PRONOUNS. What is a pronoun? What is the antecedent of a pronoun? What is the rule for their agreement? What is meant by "person" in pronouns? Name five pronouns of each person. Name the pronouns that indicate masculine gender. Feminine. Neuter. What pronouns may be used to refer to antecedents that stand for persons of either sex? To antecedents that are collective nouns of unity? To animals? What are nouns of common gender? By what pronouns are they referred to? Should a singular or a plural pronoun be used after _everybody_? After _some one_? After _some people_? After two nouns connected by _or_? By _nor_? By _and_? What are relative pronouns? Name them. With what kind of antecedents may each be used? What is the difference between the explanatory relative and the restrictive relative? Illustrate. What is an interrogative pronoun? What pronouns may be used only in the nominative case? In the objective case? When should the nominative case be used? The objective? The possessive? May _thou_ and _you_ be used in the same sentence? When should _but that_ be used, and when _but what_? May _them_ be used adjectively? May _which_ be used with a clause as an antecedent? May _which_ and _that_, or _who_ and _that_ be used in the same sentence with the same antecedent? ADJECTIVES AND ADVERBS. Distinguish between adjectives and adverbs. Illustrate. What is comparison? What is the positive degree, the comparative, the superlative? Illustrate each. May one say, _He is the largest of the two?_ Reason? _He is the larger of the three?_ Reason? _He is the largest of all?_ Reason? Name three adjectives which cannot be compared. May one say, _Paris is larger than any city?_ Reason? _Paris is larger than all cities?_ Reason? _Par
PREV.   NEXT  
|<   76   77   78   79   80   81   82   83   84   85   86   87   88   89   90   91   92   93   94   95   96   97   98   99   100  
101   102   103   104   105   106   107   108   109   110   111   112   113   114   115   116   117   118   119   120   121   122   123   124   125   >>   >|  



Top keywords:

pronouns

 

Illustrate

 

Reason

 

difference

 
pronoun
 
gender
 

antecedent

 

larger

 

relative

 

antecedents


plural

 

compound

 

formed

 

person

 

ending

 

objective

 

adjectives

 
singular
 

sentence

 

complement


nominative
 
possessive
 

proper

 

largest

 

masculine

 

common

 

explanatory

 
interrogative
 

object

 

restrictive


comparative

 
degree
 

positive

 
comparison
 

superlative

 

phrase

 
compared
 
adjective
 

adverbs

 

Distinguish


clause

 

cities

 

attribute

 

ADVERBS

 

ADJECTIVES

 

adjectively

 
PRONOUNS
 

feminine

 
agreement
 

figures