ENGL 112- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 16 pages long!)
13 Oct 2017
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5 - understanding sentence grammar: 8 parts of speech: Noun - person, place, or thing ; quality or idea (e. g. freedom, success) Pronoun - word used in place of a noun ; acts like a noun in a sentence. Verb - expresses actions, occurrences, or states of being. Adverb - describes a verb, an adjective, another adverb, or a whole group of words. Preposition - forms a noun or pronoun into a word group called a *prepositional phrase. Conjunction - word that links and relates parts of a sentence. Interjection - word or phrase standing by itself or inserted into a sentence in order to express feeling or command attention(e. g. sounds, looks, etc. ) *prepositional phrase - pre-positions the noun or pronoun. Depending on the function of a sentence, numbers can be a noun, pronoun, or adjective. Prepositional phrase examples: refer to page 183 (common prepositions e. g about, above, etc. ) We walked very carefully down the steep staircase.
