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Flashcards by Jenny Johnson, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Jenny Johnson
almost 4 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Book and volume are examples of | Synonyms |
| Bear and bare are examples of | homonyms |
| His and my are examples of | possessive pronouns |
| Yourself and ourselves are examples of | reflexive pronouns |
| This, that and those are examples of | demonstrative pronouns |
| David and Sarah are examples of | proper nouns |
| Pre- and dis- are | prefixes |
| -ly and -ness are | suffixes |
| The noun to which a pronoun refers is called | Antecedent |
| A group of related objects | Category |
| Which is correct? "The Glory of the world (shone/shown) round them" | Shone |
| Which is correct? "The (desert/dessert) is so unbearably hot in the summer months. | desert |
| Which is correct? Ice cream is my favorite (desert/dessert) | dessert |
| Which is correct? I like to use my favorite (stationary/stationery) to write letters to my cousins | stationery |
| What comes next in this jingle? "i before e except after ___" | c i comes before e except after c. example: notice difference in the words relieve and deceive |
| This | single object near the speaker |
| That | single object far from the speaker |
| Those | two or more distant objects |
| These | two or more nearby objects |
| Possessive Pronoun Examples | his my our their your |
| Reflexive Pronoun Examples | ourselves himself itself yourself themselves |
| What happened at Tower of Babel? | Creation of languages. Confusion of labels. Disruption of communication. |
| What is a dialect? | Variations within languages and different labels for the same object |
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