1. Language and Grammar Unit
Year 12 Pre Test

2. The study of sentence parts is called…
Morphology
Grammar
Parts of Speech
Syntax
Syntax

3. The technical name for “the” is
Indefinite article
Definite article
noun
verb
Definite article.
(A is an indefinite article)

4. New Zealand is an example of a
Abstract noun
Concrete noun
Proper Noun
Collective noun
Proper noun
i.e. a naming noun, needs a capital and can be used without the definite article.

5. Nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are types of …
Word classes
Word descriptors
Word part
Types of speech
Word classes

6. A verb is a doing word. Verb forms that show tense are called..
Infinite verbs
Auxillary verbs
Finite verbs
Abstract verbs
Finite verbs e.g
We walked, they rode, He was studying.

7. Dad (S) burned (V) the fruitcake (O)
The usual word order is
Subject + Verb + Object
Object + Verb + Suject
Subject + Object
Subject + verb
SVO e.g.
Dad (S) burned (V) the fruitcake (O)

8. Verbs followed by an object are called…
Auxillary verbs
Intransitive verbs
Transitive verbs
Infinitives
Transitive verbs
e.g The sun melted the snow (transitive)

9. Adjectives do what to nouns…
Give them tense
Modify/describe them
Show if they are singular or plural
Show if they are concrete or abstract
Modify them
e.g The tortoiseshell cat

10. Adjectives used to compare things or show degrees of comparison
Comparative and superlative
Comparative and modifiers
Superlative and modifiers
Comparative and auxillary
Comparative and Superlative
e.g. My cat is the oldest on the street.
Usually done by adding –er or –est
OR more or most

11. An adverb can modify Verbs and nouns Verbs and adjectives
Nouns and adjectives
Verbs, adjectives and other adverbs
Verbs, adjectives another adverbs
e.g. carefully, slowly, quickly

12. A pronouns stands in place of
Definite articles
Indefinite articles
Verbs
Nouns
Nouns
e.g I, we, he, she, him, her, me, us, they, them

13. Two sentences joined together with more than one verb are known as
Phrases
Clauses
Subjects
Objects
Clauses
e.g. The sun melted the snow (clause), and in an hour it had vanished. (clause)

14. And, or and but arexamples of
Clauses
Phrases
Coordinating conjunctions
Modifiers
Coordinating conjunctions

15. If the subject of the sentence is the doer of the action, the verb is in the
Passive voice
Active voice
Third person
First person
Active voice
e.g. The dog (S doer) chased (V) the cat (O)
The opposite is the passive voice
The cat (S receiver) was chased by (V)
the dog (doer)

16. About, to, in, on, of, down a all examples of…
pronouns
clauses
prepositions
phrases
Prepositions
Small words that show relationship between two things in time or space