English 9-Unit 11 Review

Two or more words used as a single noun are called

• collective noun

• compound noun

• common noun

• proper noun

A noun complement that follows a linking verb and renames the subject is a

• direct object

• predicate nominative

• object of a preposition

• indirect object

Direct objects answer the question

• whom or what

• to whom or for whom

• which one or what kind

• how or why

A word that follows a noun and explains or identifies that noun is called

• direct object

• direct address

• object of a preposition

• appositive

both gerunds and noun infinitives can be used in sentences as

• subjects

• direct objects

• predicate nominatives

• all of these

Keeping the same grammatical structure for coordinating ideas is called

• diagramming

• unity

• parallelism

• none of these

Signal words such as that, whom, who, which can introduce

• infinitives

• gerund phrases

• noun clauses

• prepositional phrases

Indirect objects may only appear in sentences that contain

• linking verbs

• predicate nominative

• direct objects

• prep phrases

Expressions stating amounts are singular when the amount in considered as

• separate parts

• a unit

Noun clauses are clauses that are

• dependent

• independent