Language and Literature

• What is the principal method of human communication?


  Language
• How is language conveyed?


  By speech, writing, or gesture
• What does diction refer to in language?


  Proper pronunciation
• What is syntax in language?


  The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences
• What does semantics study?


  Reference, meaning, or truth
• What is grammar?


  A set of rules or conventions to make a sentence correct
• What are the parts of speech in grammar?


  Noun, pronoun, verb, adverb, conjunction, preposition, interjection, adjective
• What is a noun?


  A word used to identify any of a class of people, places, or things
• What is the difference between concrete and abstract nouns?

  Concrete nouns can be touched, while abstract nouns cannot
• What are the types of nouns based on number?


  Ordinal, cardinal, count, non-count/mass, collective
• What is a common noun?

  A general name of something that starts with a small letter
• What is a proper noun?


  A specific name of something that starts with a capital letter
• What is a pronoun?


  A word that is used instead of a noun or noun phrase
• What are subjective pronouns?


  Pronouns that act as a subject in a sentence
• What are objective pronouns?


  Pronouns that act as the direct object or indirect object of a sentence
• What are possessive pronouns?


  Pronouns that show that something belongs to someone
• What are relative pronouns?


  Pronouns used to connect relative clauses to independent clauses
• What are demonstrative pronouns?


  Pronouns used to point to specific things
• What are indefinite pronouns?


  Pronouns that do not refer to a specific person, thing, or amount
• What are reflexive pronouns?


  Pronouns used for the object of a verb when it refers back to the subject
• What are intensive pronouns?


  Pronouns that add emphasis or intensity to a noun
• What are interrogative pronouns?


  Pronouns used in questions
• What are reciprocal pronouns?


  Pronouns that indicate a reciprocal relationship
• What is a verb?


  A word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence
• What are auxiliary verbs?


  Verbs used in forming the tenses, moods, and voices of other verbs
• What are the three types of auxiliary verbs?


  Do verbs, be verbs, have verbs
• What are modals?


  Verbs such as will, shall, can, may, must, would, should, ought to, could, might
• What is a transitive verb?


  A verb that requires a direct object
• What is an intransitive verb?


  A verb that does not require a direct object
• What is an adverb?


  A word that modifies a verb, adjective, another adverb, or a whole sentence
• What are the types of adverbs?


  Frequency, time, manner, place, degree
• What is a conjunction?


  A word used to connect clauses or sentences
• What are coordinating conjunctions?


  Conjunctions that connect words or clauses of equal importance (FANBOYS)
• What are subordinating conjunctions?

  Conjunctions that connect a main clause with a subordinate clause
• What are correlative conjunctions?

  Conjunctions that come in pairs to illustrate relationships between words or phrases
• What is a preposition?


  A word or group of words used before a noun, pronoun, or noun phrase
• What is the purpose of a preposition?


  To show direction, time, place, location, or spatial relationships
• What is an interjection?


  Words used to express strong feeling or sudden emotion
• What is an adjective?

  A word or phrase naming an attribute added to a noun to modify or describe it
• What is a sentence?


  A group of words that has a subject and predicate