Sentence Analysis and The Uses of Grammar

When the word there is used as an introductory word at the beginning of a sentence, it is called a what?

• Ellipsis

• Auxiliary word

• Expletive

• Adverb

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1J

CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.5.1A

CCSS.L.8.1C

CCSS.L.K.1D

When the verb in a sentence consists of more than one word, the last word of the

 

group is called the __________verb or the main verb.

• Auxiliary

• Notional

• Apparitional

• Stative

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1E

CCSS.L.1.4C

CCSS.L.2.6

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.4.1B

When the verb in a sentence consists of more than one word, the verb preceding

 

the main verb is called the ___________verbs or helping verbs.

• Auxiliary

• Notional

• Stative

• Finite

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1E

CCSS.L.1.4C

CCSS.L.2.6

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.4.1B

May, might, must, can, could, would, and should are called _______________auxiliaries.

• Modal

• Finite

• intransitive

• Linking

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1E

CCSS.L.1.4C

CCSS.L.2.6

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.4.1B

Which helping verb is used in the present and the past, combined with the simple infinitive of the main verb to make the emphatic form?

• Have

• Be

• Do

• Shall

Nouns may have adjectival uses, true or false?

• True

• False

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1A

What is a word that connects a noun (or substantive) to some other part of the sentence?

• Conjunction

• Preposition

• Subordinating conjunction

• Pronoun

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1I

CCSS.L.4.1E

CCSS.L.5.1A

CCSS.L.K.1E

Which of the following is NOT one of the most common types of relationships between prepositions and their objects.

 

• Space

• Agency

• Time

• Occasion

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1I

CCSS.L.4.1E

CCSS.L.5.1A

CCSS.L.K.1E

A nominative absolute phrase modifies the whole sentence, true or false?

• True

• False

The subject of the infinitive will be in the ______________________________ case.

• Nominative

• Objective

• Possessive

Tags

CCSS.L.8.1A