HESI A2 Grammar Exam with Accurate
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Eight parts of speech - ✔✔Nouns , Pronouns, Adjectives, Verbs, Adverbs, Prepositions,
Conjunctions, Interjections.
Noun - ✔✔Names a person, place or thing
e.g. church, writer
Common Noun - ✔✔The official name of a person, place, or thing.
e.g. Abraham Lincoln
Abstract Noun - ✔✔Names a quality or general idea
e.g. persistence, democracy
Collective Noun - ✔✔Represents a group of persons, animals, or things.
Pronoun - ✔✔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
Personal Pronoun - ✔✔Refers to a specific person, place, thing, or idea indicating the person
speaking (first, second, third)
Possessive Pronoun - ✔✔A form of personal noun that shows possession or ownership.
e. g. my, mine, his
, Adjective - ✔✔Word, Phrase, or clause that modifies a noun.
e.g. He is *nice*. (nice is the adjective)
Participle - ✔✔Type of verb form usually ending in -ing or -ed.
e.g. the *absent-minded* professor
Verb - ✔✔Phrase used to express an action or state of being.
e.g. Mary *works*.
Linking verbs - ✔✔Verbs that link, join, the subject of a sentence to a a noun, pronoun, or
predicate adjective. Does not show action.
e.g. am, is, are, was, were, being, been
Adverb - ✔✔A word, phrase, or clause that modifies a verb, an adjective, or another verb.
e.g. quite badly (badly would be the adverb)
Preposition - ✔✔A word showing the relationship of a noun or pronoun to some other word in
the sentence.
e.g. in, from, about
Conjunction - ✔✔A word that joins words, phrases, or clauses.
Correlative conjunction - ✔✔Conjunctions that work in pairs to join words or phrases.
e.g. Neither, nor
Interjection - ✔✔Word or phrase that expresses emotion or exclamation.
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Eight parts of speech - ✔✔Nouns , Pronouns, Adjectives, Verbs, Adverbs, Prepositions,
Conjunctions, Interjections.
Noun - ✔✔Names a person, place or thing
e.g. church, writer
Common Noun - ✔✔The official name of a person, place, or thing.
e.g. Abraham Lincoln
Abstract Noun - ✔✔Names a quality or general idea
e.g. persistence, democracy
Collective Noun - ✔✔Represents a group of persons, animals, or things.
Pronoun - ✔✔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
Personal Pronoun - ✔✔Refers to a specific person, place, thing, or idea indicating the person
speaking (first, second, third)
Possessive Pronoun - ✔✔A form of personal noun that shows possession or ownership.
e. g. my, mine, his
, Adjective - ✔✔Word, Phrase, or clause that modifies a noun.
e.g. He is *nice*. (nice is the adjective)
Participle - ✔✔Type of verb form usually ending in -ing or -ed.
e.g. the *absent-minded* professor
Verb - ✔✔Phrase used to express an action or state of being.
e.g. Mary *works*.
Linking verbs - ✔✔Verbs that link, join, the subject of a sentence to a a noun, pronoun, or
predicate adjective. Does not show action.
e.g. am, is, are, was, were, being, been
Adverb - ✔✔A word, phrase, or clause that modifies a verb, an adjective, or another verb.
e.g. quite badly (badly would be the adverb)
Preposition - ✔✔A word showing the relationship of a noun or pronoun to some other word in
the sentence.
e.g. in, from, about
Conjunction - ✔✔A word that joins words, phrases, or clauses.
Correlative conjunction - ✔✔Conjunctions that work in pairs to join words or phrases.
e.g. Neither, nor
Interjection - ✔✔Word or phrase that expresses emotion or exclamation.
