A Guide to the Scranton Preparatory School English Entrance Exam Kathleen M. Mihailoff Parts of Speech ....................................................................................................................................... 4 Noun ...................................................................................................................................................................... 4 Proper Noun .................................................................................................................................................................... 4 Common Noun ................................................................................................................................................................ 4 Abstract Noun ................................................................................................................................................................. 4 Concrete Noun ................................................................................................................................................................ 4 Collective Noun .............................................................................................................................................................. 4 Pronoun ................................................................................................................................................................ 4 Personal Pronoun ......................................................................................................................................................... 5 Reflexive Pronoun......................................................................................................................................................... 5 Intensive Pronoun ........................................................................................................................................................ 5 Relative Pronoun ........................................................................................................................................................... 5 Interrogative Pronoun ................................................................................................................................................ 6 Demonstrative Pronoun ............................................................................................................................................. 6 Indefinite Pronoun ....................................................................................................................................................... 6 Adjective .............................................................................................................................................................. 6 Verb........................................................................................................................................................................ 7 Action Verb ...................................................................................................................................................................... 7 Transitive Verb .............................................................................................................................................................. 7 Intransitive Verb ........................................................................................................................................................... 7 Linking Verb .................................................................................................................................................................... 7 Helping Verb (Auxiliary Verb) ................................................................................................................................. 7 Adverb................................................................................................................................................................... 7 Preposition .......................................................................................................................................................... 8 Conjunction ......................................................................................................................................................... 8 Coordinating Conjunction ......................................................................................................................................... 8 Correlative Conjunction ............................................................................................................................................. 8 Subordinate Conjunction ........................................................................................................................................... 9 Interjection ......................................................................................................................................................... 9 Verbal .................................................................................................................................................................... 9 Infinitive ............................................................................................................................................................................ 9 Participle........................................................................................................................................................................... 9 Gerund ............................................................................................................................................................................. 10 Parts of the Sentence .......................................................................................................................... 10 Subject ............................................................................................................................................................... 10 Predicate ........................................................................................................................................................... 10 Complement ..................................................................................................................................................... 10 Direct Object.................................................................................................................................................................. 11 Indirect Object .............................................................................................................................................................. 11 Predicate Nominative ................................................................................................................................................ 11 Predicate Adjective ..................................................................................................................................................... 11 Phrases .............................................................................................................................................................. 11 Prepositional Phrase.................................................................................................................................................. 11 Adjectival Phrase ......................................................................................................................................................... 11 Adverbial Phrase ......................................................................................................................................................... 11 Participial Phrase ........................................................................................................................................................ 12 Gerund Phrase .............................................................................................................................................................. 12 Infinitive Phrase .......................................................................................................................................................... 12 Infinitive Clause ........................................................................................................................................................... 12 Appositive Phrase ....................................................................................................................................................... 12 Noun Phrase .................................................................................................................................................................. 12 Clauses ............................................................................................................................................................... 12 Independent Clause.................................................................................................................................................... 12 Subordinate Clause (Dependent Clause) ........................................................................................................... 13 Adjectival Clause ......................................................................................................................................................... 13 Adverbial Clause .........................................................................................................................................................