HISET Writing Test Questions and Answers

HISET Writing Test Questions and
Answers



noun - Answer-person, place, thing, or idea



pronoun - Answer-A word that takes the place of a noun



personal pronoun - Answer-refers to a specific person or thing



possessive pronoun - Answer-shows ownership or possession of something



demonstrative pronoun - Answer-a word that points out a specific person, place, or thing: this, that,
these, those



relative pronoun - Answer-relates one part of the sentence to another



reflexive pronoun - Answer-reflect back to someone or something



interrogative pronoun - Answer-pronoun that asks a question; examples: who, whom, whose, what,
which

, indefinite pronoun - Answer-refers to a person, place, thing, or idea that may or may not be specifically
named



adjective - Answer-a word that modifies a noun or pronoun



article - Answer-a, an, the



determiners - Answer-make specific sense of a noun



verb - Answer-A word that expresses action, a state of being or feeling, or a relation between two things



action verb - Answer-A verb that expresses either physical or mental activity



transitive action verb - Answer-MUST have a direct object



intransitive action verb - Answer-will NEVER have a direct object



being verb - Answer-shows state of being



forms of be - Answer-am, is, are, was, were, be, been, being, has been, should have been, may be,
might be



linking verb - Answer-A verb that does not show action but connects the subject with a word in the
predicate



linking verb examples - Answer-became, seem, feel, remain, appear, look, smell, stay, become, grow,
prove, sound, taste