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Give examples of Subordinating Conjunctions
Although we were invited, we didn't go.
They left because they were bored.
He said that he was tired.
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What are the two kinds of conjunctions in English?
Coordinating & Subordinating.
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What is a Conjunction?
A word that joins words or groups of words together.
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Describe an Attributive Adjective.
They appear before the nouns they modify.
ie:The small child. The red house.
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The ending of a German Attributive Adjective takes on depends on.
- - Case
- -Gender
- -Number
- -Article
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What do Coordinating Conjunctions do?
Join words, phrases and clauses of equal rank.
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Describe a Predicate Adjective.
- They modify the Subject of the sentence.
- They accompany a Linking Verb, often in the form "to be".
- ie: The child is small.
- The house is red.
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What is a Linking Verb?
A Verb that links interchangeable elements.
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How many types of Descriptive Adjectives and what are they?
- 2
- Attributive & Predicate.
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A Clause introduced by a Subordinating Conjunction is called?
Dependant or Subordinate Clause.
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What form do Predicate Adjectives take?
This depends on?
Dictionary and it doesn't depend on anything (Case, Gender, number or Article).
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What do Subordinating Conjunctions do?
Join a Dependant Clause to the Main Clause. They indicate elements of unequal rank.
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What are the 4 kinds of Adjectives?
- Descriptive
- Possesive
- Interrogative
- Demonstrative
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What is a Cognate?
- A word w/ equivalent meanings.
- ie: Haus-House, Garten-Garden etc...
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What is an Idiom?
- An expression understood as a whole but means something different as individual words.
- ie: Ice cream, Schlange stehen (lineup/ snake & stand).
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Function of an Adjective?
To describe a Noun or Pronoun.
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What's a Descriptive Adjective?
- A word that describes a quality of a Noun or Pronoun.
- ie: The Red house, the child is small etc...
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What are the 8 parts of German speech?
- Noun
- Pronoun
- Adjective
- Verb
- Adverb
- Article
- Preposition
- Conjuntion
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Name some typical Subordinating Conjunctions.
Although, because, if, unless, so that, while, that & whatever.
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Some major Coordinating Conjunctions are:
but, and, or , nor & for.
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Give examples of Coordinating Conjunctions.
- Good or evil
- Over the river and through the woods.
- They invited us but we couldn't come.
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What is a Predicate Noun?
- A Noun in a sentence that refers to the Subject of the sentence.
- ie: Mary is a Girl
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What are the most common Linking Verbs in the English language?
To be or to become.
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How can we tell that a word is a preposition or subordinating conjunction?
- If it introduces a clause, it is a SUBORDINATING CONJUNCTION.
- The clause will contain a subject and a verb.
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What is a sentence?
A sentence is a group of words that act together as a complete unit.
Typically a sentence consists of at least a subject and a verb.
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What is a subject of a sentence?
The subject of a sentence is the person or thing that is related to the action.
The subject performs the action in an active sentence, but is acted upon in a passive sentence.
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How do you find the subject of a sentence in English?
Look for the verb first, then ask, who? or what? before the verb the answer will be the subject.
- ie:
- Peter studies German.
- Who studies German?
- answer: Peter
- Peter is the subject.
- Did the packages come yesterday?
- What came yesterday?
- answer: the packages.
- The packages is the subject.
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What is a verb?
- A verb is a word that expresses the action of a sentence. An action is not necessarily a physical action
- ie:
- A physical activity – to run, to walk, to hit, to sit.
A mental activity – to dream, to think, to believe, to hope.
A condition – to be, to become, to seem.
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What are the two types of verb in English and German?
transitive and intransitive verbs
https://www.grammarly.com/blog/transitive-verbs/
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Which verb takes a direct object?
How is it abbreviated in dictionaries?
A transitive verb.
v.t.
- ie:
- The boy threw the ball.
she lost her job.
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Which verb cannot take a direct object?
An Intransitive verb.
- ie:
- Laura arrives today.
- Ryan is sleeping.
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What is a Transitive Verb?
Transitive verbs are verbs that take an object, which means they include the receiver of the action in the sentence. In the example sentence “she gives a gift,” the verb gives is transitive and a gift is the direct object because it receives the action (a gift is what is being given).
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