HESI A2 Grammar Exam with Accurate
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Eight parts of speech - ✔✔Nouns , Pronouns, Adjectives, Verbs, Adverbs, Prepositions,
Conjunctions, Interjections.
Noun - ✔✔Names a person, place or thing
e.g. church, writer
Common noun - ✔✔General not particular name of person, place, or thing ex. nurse hospital
syringe
Proper noun - ✔✔The official name of a person, place, or thing.
e.g. Abraham Lincoln
Always capitalized
Abstract Noun - ✔✔Names a quality or general idea
e.g. persistence, democracy
Collective Noun - ✔✔Represents a group of persons, animals, or things.
Ex. Family, flock, furniture
Pronoun - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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 - ✔✔Type of verb form usually ending in -ing or -ed.
e.g. the *absent-minded* professor
Verb - ✔✔Phrase used to express an action or state of being.
Express time through tense
e.g. Mary *works*.
3 types of tense - ✔✔Present- Mary works
Past- Mary worked
Future- Mary will work
Linking verbs - ✔✔Verbs that link, join, the subject of a sentence to a a noun, pronoun, or
predicate adjective. Does not show action.
Forms of the verb 'to be': am, is, are, was, were, being, been
Forms of the verb relate to senses: look, sound, smell, feel, and taste
Forms of verb relate to state of being: seem, become, grows, turn, prove, and remain
Adverb - ✔✔A word, phrase, or clause that modifies a verb, an adjective, or another verb.
e.g. The physician operates quickly( quickly is adverb)
Preposition - ✔✔A word showing the relationship of a noun or pronoun to some other word in
the sentence.
e.g. in, from, about
Compound preposition - ✔✔Preposition made up of more than one word
Prepositional phrase - ✔✔Group of words that begin with a preposition and ends with a noun
or pronoun (called the object of the preposition)
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Eight parts of speech - ✔✔Nouns , Pronouns, Adjectives, Verbs, Adverbs, Prepositions,
Conjunctions, Interjections.
Noun - ✔✔Names a person, place or thing
e.g. church, writer
Common noun - ✔✔General not particular name of person, place, or thing ex. nurse hospital
syringe
Proper noun - ✔✔The official name of a person, place, or thing.
e.g. Abraham Lincoln
Always capitalized
Abstract Noun - ✔✔Names a quality or general idea
e.g. persistence, democracy
Collective Noun - ✔✔Represents a group of persons, animals, or things.
Ex. Family, flock, furniture
Pronoun - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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 - ✔✔Type of verb form usually ending in -ing or -ed.
e.g. the *absent-minded* professor
Verb - ✔✔Phrase used to express an action or state of being.
Express time through tense
e.g. Mary *works*.
3 types of tense - ✔✔Present- Mary works
Past- Mary worked
Future- Mary will work
Linking verbs - ✔✔Verbs that link, join, the subject of a sentence to a a noun, pronoun, or
predicate adjective. Does not show action.
Forms of the verb 'to be': am, is, are, was, were, being, been
Forms of the verb relate to senses: look, sound, smell, feel, and taste
Forms of verb relate to state of being: seem, become, grows, turn, prove, and remain
Adverb - ✔✔A word, phrase, or clause that modifies a verb, an adjective, or another verb.
e.g. The physician operates quickly( quickly is adverb)
Preposition - ✔✔A word showing the relationship of a noun or pronoun to some other word in
the sentence.
e.g. in, from, about
Compound preposition - ✔✔Preposition made up of more than one word
Prepositional phrase - ✔✔Group of words that begin with a preposition and ends with a noun
or pronoun (called the object of the preposition)
