HESI A2 GRAMMAR COMPREHENSIVE
EXAMINATION TEST QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS FULLY VERIFIED
●● Noun
Answer: Names a person, place or thing
e.g. church, writer
●● Common noun
Answer: General not particular name of person, place, or thing ex. nurse
hospital syringe
●● Proper noun
Answer: The official name of a person, place, or thing.
e.g. Abraham Lincoln
Always capitalized
●● Abstract Noun
Answer: Names a quality or general idea
e.g. persistence, democracy
●● Collective Noun
,Answer: Represents a group of persons, animals, or things.
Ex. Family, flock, furniture
●● Pronoun
Answer: A word that takes the place of a noun, another pronoun, or a
groups of words acting together as a noun.
E.G. their, them
●● Antecedent
Answer: The word of group of words to which a pronoun refers
Ex students is the antecedent for pro nouns their and them (students
wanted their test papers graded and returned to them in a timely manner)
●● Personal Pronoun
Answer: Refers to a specific person, place, thing, or idea indicating the
person speaking (first (speaking) , second(spoken to), third(talked about)
Either plural or singular
We(1st plural) were going to ask you (2nd singular) to give them (3rd
plural) a ride to the office
●● Possessive Pronoun
Answer: A form of personal noun that shows possession or ownership.
e. g. my, mine, his
, Ex. This is my book or that book is mine or that is his book
Do not contain apostrophe
●● Where to use pronouns ending in Self
Answer: Only at end when noun to relate it back to or at the beginning
ex. I myself did......., or Sara did ......herself.
No such words as hisself, theirself, theirselves
●● Adjective
Answer: Word, Phrase, or clause that modifies a noun or pronoun.
e.g. He is *nice*. (nice is the adjective)
Answers the question what kind, which one, how many, or how much.
●● How can verbs, pronouns, and nouns act as adjectives
Answer: Verbs as function adjectives are participle usually ending in -
ing or -ed.
Ex. Verb: the scowling professor, the worried student, the broken pencil
Ex. Pronoun: my book, your clas, that book, this class
Ex.noun: the professor's class, the biology class
●● Participle
Answer: Type of verb form usually ending in -ing or -ed.
e.g. the *absent-minded* professor
EXAMINATION TEST QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS FULLY VERIFIED
●● Noun
Answer: Names a person, place or thing
e.g. church, writer
●● Common noun
Answer: General not particular name of person, place, or thing ex. nurse
hospital syringe
●● Proper noun
Answer: The official name of a person, place, or thing.
e.g. Abraham Lincoln
Always capitalized
●● Abstract Noun
Answer: Names a quality or general idea
e.g. persistence, democracy
●● Collective Noun
,Answer: Represents a group of persons, animals, or things.
Ex. Family, flock, furniture
●● Pronoun
Answer: A word that takes the place of a noun, another pronoun, or a
groups of words acting together as a noun.
E.G. their, them
●● Antecedent
Answer: The word of group of words to which a pronoun refers
Ex students is the antecedent for pro nouns their and them (students
wanted their test papers graded and returned to them in a timely manner)
●● Personal Pronoun
Answer: Refers to a specific person, place, thing, or idea indicating the
person speaking (first (speaking) , second(spoken to), third(talked about)
Either plural or singular
We(1st plural) were going to ask you (2nd singular) to give them (3rd
plural) a ride to the office
●● Possessive Pronoun
Answer: A form of personal noun that shows possession or ownership.
e. g. my, mine, his
, Ex. This is my book or that book is mine or that is his book
Do not contain apostrophe
●● Where to use pronouns ending in Self
Answer: Only at end when noun to relate it back to or at the beginning
ex. I myself did......., or Sara did ......herself.
No such words as hisself, theirself, theirselves
●● Adjective
Answer: Word, Phrase, or clause that modifies a noun or pronoun.
e.g. He is *nice*. (nice is the adjective)
Answers the question what kind, which one, how many, or how much.
●● How can verbs, pronouns, and nouns act as adjectives
Answer: Verbs as function adjectives are participle usually ending in -
ing or -ed.
Ex. Verb: the scowling professor, the worried student, the broken pencil
Ex. Pronoun: my book, your clas, that book, this class
Ex.noun: the professor's class, the biology class
●● Participle
Answer: Type of verb form usually ending in -ing or -ed.
e.g. the *absent-minded* professor
