HESI A2 GRAMMAR COMPREHENSIVE TEST
PAPER 2026 FULL SOLUTION STUDY
GUIDE
● Noun. Answer: Names a person, place or thing
e.g. church, writer
● Common noun. Answer: General not particular name of person, place,
or thing ex. nurse hospital syringe
● Proper noun. Answer: The official name of a person, place, or thing.
e.g. Abraham Lincoln
Always capitalized
● Abstract Noun. Answer: Names a quality or general idea
e.g. persistence, democracy
● Collective Noun. Answer: Represents a group of persons, animals, or
things.
Ex. Family, flock, furniture
,● Pronoun. Answer: 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. Answer: 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. Answer: 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. Answer: 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. Answer: 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. Answer: 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. Answer: 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. Answer: Type of verb form usually ending in -ing or -ed.
e.g. the *absent-minded* professor
● Verb. Answer: Phrase used to express an action or state of being.
Express time through tense
e.g. Mary *works*.
PAPER 2026 FULL SOLUTION STUDY
GUIDE
● Noun. Answer: Names a person, place or thing
e.g. church, writer
● Common noun. Answer: General not particular name of person, place,
or thing ex. nurse hospital syringe
● Proper noun. Answer: The official name of a person, place, or thing.
e.g. Abraham Lincoln
Always capitalized
● Abstract Noun. Answer: Names a quality or general idea
e.g. persistence, democracy
● Collective Noun. Answer: Represents a group of persons, animals, or
things.
Ex. Family, flock, furniture
,● Pronoun. Answer: 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. Answer: 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. Answer: 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. Answer: 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. Answer: 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. Answer: 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. Answer: 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. Answer: Type of verb form usually ending in -ing or -ed.
e.g. the *absent-minded* professor
● Verb. Answer: Phrase used to express an action or state of being.
Express time through tense
e.g. Mary *works*.
