HESI A2 Grammar Exam with Accurate
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Nouns - ✔✔a person, place, or thing
can be abstract (general) or concrete (specific)
2 types - common & proper nouns
Common nouns - ✔✔the class or group of people, places, or things
they are not capitalized
people - boy, girl, worker, manager
place - school, bank, library, home
things - dog, cat, truck, car
Proper nouns - ✔✔names of specific persons, places, or things
they are to be capitalized
people - Abraham Lincoln
places - New York
things - Earth
When do you capitalize or not capitalize "earth"? - ✔✔Capitalize when you talk about the
planet we live on
Lowercase when you talk about dirt, rocks, or land
General nouns - ✔✔names of conditions or ideas
condition - beauty, strength
idea - truth, piece
, Specific nouns - ✔✔name people, places, or things that are understood by using your senses
people - baby, friend, father
places - town, park, city hall
things - rainbow, cough, apple
Collective nouns - ✔✔names for a person, place, or thing that may act as a whole
ex - class, company, dozen, group, herd, team , & public
Pronouns - ✔✔words that are used to stand in for a noun
may be grouped as personal, intensive, relative, interrogative, demonstrative, indefinite, &
reciprocal
Antecedent - ✔✔word or group of words to which a pronoun refers
Personal pronouns - ✔✔refers to a specific person, place, thing, or an idea by indicating the
person speaking (first person), the person or people spoken to (second person), or any other
person, place, or thing, or idea being talked about (third person)
Nominative - case for nouns & pronouns that are the subject of a sentence
Objective - case for nouns & pronouns that are an object in a sentence
Possessive- case for nouns & pronouns that show possession or ownership
Intensive pronouns - ✔✔I myself, you yourself, he himself, she himself, the (thing) itself, we
ourselves, you yourselves, they themselves
relative pronouns - ✔✔which, who, whom, whose
interrogative pronouns - ✔✔what, which, who, whom, whose
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Nouns - ✔✔a person, place, or thing
can be abstract (general) or concrete (specific)
2 types - common & proper nouns
Common nouns - ✔✔the class or group of people, places, or things
they are not capitalized
people - boy, girl, worker, manager
place - school, bank, library, home
things - dog, cat, truck, car
Proper nouns - ✔✔names of specific persons, places, or things
they are to be capitalized
people - Abraham Lincoln
places - New York
things - Earth
When do you capitalize or not capitalize "earth"? - ✔✔Capitalize when you talk about the
planet we live on
Lowercase when you talk about dirt, rocks, or land
General nouns - ✔✔names of conditions or ideas
condition - beauty, strength
idea - truth, piece
, Specific nouns - ✔✔name people, places, or things that are understood by using your senses
people - baby, friend, father
places - town, park, city hall
things - rainbow, cough, apple
Collective nouns - ✔✔names for a person, place, or thing that may act as a whole
ex - class, company, dozen, group, herd, team , & public
Pronouns - ✔✔words that are used to stand in for a noun
may be grouped as personal, intensive, relative, interrogative, demonstrative, indefinite, &
reciprocal
Antecedent - ✔✔word or group of words to which a pronoun refers
Personal pronouns - ✔✔refers to a specific person, place, thing, or an idea by indicating the
person speaking (first person), the person or people spoken to (second person), or any other
person, place, or thing, or idea being talked about (third person)
Nominative - case for nouns & pronouns that are the subject of a sentence
Objective - case for nouns & pronouns that are an object in a sentence
Possessive- case for nouns & pronouns that show possession or ownership
Intensive pronouns - ✔✔I myself, you yourself, he himself, she himself, the (thing) itself, we
ourselves, you yourselves, they themselves
relative pronouns - ✔✔which, who, whom, whose
interrogative pronouns - ✔✔what, which, who, whom, whose
