ACS 106 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Adjective Phrase, Linguistic Prescription, Adverb

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Arts and Contemporary Studies
• Course: ACS 106
• Professor: Jamin Pelkey

Document Summary

Nouns: words used to refer to people (boy), objects (backpack), creatures (dog), places (school), qualities (roughness), phenomena (earthquake), and abstract ideas (love) as if they were all. We begin proper nouns with a capital letter (cathy, latin, rome). Articles (determiner): words (a, an, the) used with nouns to form phrases classifying those. Things (you can have a banana or an apple) or identifying them as already known (i"ll take the apple). Adjectives: words used, typically with nouns, to provide more information about the things referred to; they describe the noun (large objects, a strange experience). Verbs: words used to refer to various kinds of actions (go, talk) and states (be, have) involving people and things in events (jessica is ill and has a sore throat so she can"t talk or go anywhere). Adverbs: words used, typically with verbs, to provide more information about actions, states, and events (slowly, yesterday).