ILTS Elementary Education (305-Content
Test)/1058 Questions with Answers
Nouns - -A person, place, thing, or idea
- Common Noun - -The class or group of people, places, and things (not
capitalized)
- Proper Nouns - -The names of a specific person, place, or thing
(capitalized)
- General Nouns - -The names of conditions or ideas
- Specific Nouns - -Names people, places, and things that are understood by
using your senses
- Collective Nouns - -The names for a person, place or thing that may act as
a whole
- Pronouns - -Words that are used to stand in for a noun
- Nominative Nouns and Pronouns - -The case for nouns and pronouns that
are the subject of a sentence
- Objective Nouns and Pronouns - -The case for nouns and pronouns that
are an object in a sentence
- Possessive Nouns and Pronouns - -The case for nouns and pronouns that
show possession or ownership
- How can Pronouns be Grouped? - --Intensive (I myself, you yourself, he
himself, she herself, the itself, we ourselves, you yourselves, they
themselves)
-Relative (which, who, whom, whose)
-Interrogative (what, which, who, whom, whose)
-Demonstrative (this, that, these, those)
-Indefinite (all, any, each, everyone, either/neither, one, some, several)
-Reciprocal (each other, one another)
,- Transitive Verbs - -A verb whose action points to a receiver
- Intransitive Verbs - -A verb that does not point to a receiver of an action
- Action Verbs - -A verb that shows what subject is doing in a sentence
- Linking Verbs - -Link the subject of a sentence to a noun or pronoun or link
a subject with an adjective
- Transitive Verbs-Active Voice - -The subject of the sentence is doing the
action
- Transitive Verbs-Passive Voice - -The subject receives the action
- Past Verbs - -The action happened in the past
- Present Verbs - -The action happens at the current time
- Future Verbs - -The action is going to happen later
- Past Perfect Verbs - -The second action started in the past and the first
action came before the second
- Present Perfect Verbs - -The action started in the past and continues into
the present
- Future Perfect Verbs - -An action that uses the past and the future
- Conjugating Verbs - -When you change the form of a verb
- Indicative Moods - -Used for facts, opinions, and questions
- Imperative Moods - -Used for orders or requests
- Subjunctive Moods - -Used for wishes and statements that go against facts
- Adjectives - -A word that is used to modify a noun or pronoun
- Articles - -Adjectives that are used to mark nouns
- Types of Articles - --Definite (the)
-Indefinite (a, an)
- Relative Adjectives - -Can show the comparison between things
,- Absolute Adjectives - -Can show comparison
- Adverbs - -A word that is used to modify a verb, adjective, or another
adverb
- Rules to Compare Adverbs and Adjectives - --Positive (standard or normal
form)
-Comparative (compares 1 person or thing to another)
-Superlative (compares more than 2 people or things)
- Prepositions - -A word placed before a noun or pronoun that shows the
relationship between an object and another word in the sentence
- Conjunctions - -Join words, phrases, or clauses and they show the
connection between the join pieces
- Correlative Conjunctions - -Show the connection between pairs
- Subordinating Conjunctions - -Join subordinate clauses with independent
clauses
- Common Subordinating Conjunctions - -After, although, because, before,
in order that, since, so that, unless, until, when, whenever, where, wherever,
whether, while
- Interjections - -A word for exclamation that is used alone or as a piece to a
sentence
- Subject - -Names who or what the sentence is all about
- Complete Subject - -Includes the simple subject and all of its modifiers
- Simple Subject - -The subject of the sentence
- Imperitove Sentences - -The verbs subject is understood, but not actually
presented in the sentence
- Predicate - -Explains or describes the subject
- Subject Verb Agreement - -Verbs agree with their subjects in number
- Complements - -A noun, pronoun, or adjective that is used to give more
information about the subject or verb in the sentence
, - Direct Objects - -A noun or pronoun takes or receives the action of a verb
- Indirect Objects - -A word or group of words that show how an action had
an influence on someone or something
- Predicate Nominatives - -The word (noun or pronoun) that gets linked to
the subject in the predicate that describe or define the subject
- Predicate Adjectives - -The word (adjective) that gets linked to the subject
in the predicate that describe or define the subject
- Pronoun-Antecedents Agreement - -Pronouns and their antecedents agree
when they have the same number and gender
- Clauses - -A group of words that contains both a subject and a predicate
- Independent Clauses - -Contains a complete thought (stands alone)
- Dependent/Subordinate Clauses - -Includes a subject and verb (cant stand
alone)
- Adjective Clauses - -A dependent clause that modifies a noun or pronoun
- Essential Clauses - -Explains or defines a person or thing (no comma)
- Nonessential Clauses - -Give more information about a person or thing but
are not necessary to define them (uses comma)
- Adverb Clauses - -A dependent clause that modifies a verb, adjective, or
adverb
- Noun Clause - -A dependent clause that can be used as a subject, object,
or complement
- Subordination - -When 2 related ideas are not of equal importance, the
ideal way to combine them is to make the more important idea an
independent clause, and the less important idea a dependent or subordinate
clause
- Phrases - -A groups of words that functions as a single part of speech that
adds detail or explanation to a sentence, or renames something in the
sentence
- Prepositional Phrases - -Begins with a preposition and ends with a noun or
pronoun that is the object of the preposition