ASMR | Teacher Helps You with Grammar Test (over the shoulder POV)

hi okay i got everybody else set up with their tests are you good i'm gonna come sit and go through all of these questions with you here one second let me just pull up a little chair here all right so since you are new here first of all welcome to our class but i know you did just miss last semester we went over a few key grammar terms that we're going to be we're going to be building off of those for the rest of this semester so instead of just making you take this test blind we're going to tak

e this time while everyone else is working and i'm just going to go through each of the questions with you that way you can let me know what you know already what you don't know you can always come in for extra tutoring after class just let me know any day is fine with me i'm usually here until about 4 30 um but let me know if you need me to stay a little later as well okay so i'm just gonna grab a couple of pens pencils and we're gonna go over each of these well i'll try to be pretty thorough u

m how much of the english grammar were you working on in your last in your last school perfect well this starts out really easy it gets into some pretty specific things but let's just take a look okay all right so i want you to go ahead and take a look at number one okay so question one i just wanted you to indicate the verb in the following sentence john has a message for his mother so what we need to know of course first of all is what is a verb um so a sentence needs at minimum two components

it's gonna need a subject and it's gonna need a verb the verb shows action yes exactly or state of being um well if it's unclear you can know that verbs will tell you the time like the tense of the sentence so sometimes other words can show action so that can be difficult but here in this sentence john has a message for his mother has has a message for his mother we could change that to had and the time would change right exactly so that would be a b c or d john has a message for his mother and

that would be a would be the correct answer okay good i just wanted to give everybody a basic question first just to get you in the right mindset of the next couple of questions so question number two um do you know anything about transitive verbs so there are transitive and intransitive verbs and the transitive verb exerts action on an object so it actually needs that object in the sentence to make sense on its own so our question is transitive verbs need another word to complete the idea of t

he expression that gives us our answer right there well an intransitive verb it can live all by itself and still make sense you can think um you can think transitive transfer transferring the action intransitive in action so that would be a true it does need another word how are you doing does that make sense um so if there was a a sentence that would be like uh you know she threw the spear okay saying she threw on its own that wouldn't make um that wouldn't make much sense we need the spear we

need another word to complete that idea so that would be a transitive verb okay good perfect um so that would bring us to number three indicate which type of verb is used in the following sentence the tulip bloomed so we have either transitive or intransitive again think transitive transfer intransitive inaction so that would be intransitive correct so we have the tulip is the subject bloomed is the verb and there's no object needed intransitive fantastic okay moving on to number four [Music] in

dicate the direct object in the following sentence stephanie gave her mother a pencil well we're gonna have to go over direct versus indirect objects like we were just saying um the object gives meaning to a verb so one way we can determine it is whether it answers the question of who or what so we have stephanie as our subject good gave would be our verb so stephanie gave what she gave the pencil exactly so if stephanie gave what the pencil that would be the direct object now for answering the

question that stephanie gave to whom for whom or for what that would be indirect so stephanie gave the pencil to whom her mother her mother would be the indirect object but we're asking for the direct object here so that would be the pencil very good this can start to get pretty complicated very fast um but we can see number five here i'm asking for the what we just went over indicate the indirect object in the following sentence stephanie gave her mother a pencil once again indirect object that

would be to whom her mother gave to whom exactly so it'd actually be mother here we're thinking of her mother as a full idea but if we're given the option here we want the word mother mother is the indirect object okay fantastic now number six i want to move on to tenses the question is perfect tenses tell about actions that have not yet been completed so what we are requiring here is a working definition of a of the perfect tense yeah knowing about the different tenses that we use just natural

ly when we're speaking english sometimes it's hard to notice them so the perfect tense it's when you say something like i have seen that show already i have seen that show already i have seen it so the time the tense what is it have seen have seen what tense does that sound like the past it's already done it's completed so perfect tense is talking about something that has been completed so you want to look for has have and had that's gonna give you a big hint of whether something is in the perfe

ct tense so i have seen that show already i had seen that show already i will have seen that show already so that's talking about um so we have present perfect past perfect and then future perfect correct yeah we we are gonna have to know that a little bit not too much though if that's a little confusing for you do not worry about it i'm gonna be going over it a lot next week um just to really drive that home so let's talk about the future perfect will have will have seen so even though it hasn'

t happened yet in the context of the conversation it will have and you have to use the tents to talk about what we're talking about here okay um do you like broadway okay so if i were to say do you want to go to hamilton with me in december but you were planning on going to see it in november you don't want to go again in this moment you haven't already seen the show but when we're talking about december you use the the future perfect tense you will have seen hamilton by december so you're talki

ng about a completed action in the future but going back to number six i'm getting out of myself do perfect tenses tell about actions that have not yet been completed false so they're always talking about actions that are completed or will have been completed very good so now we're going to be talking about the present past and future perfect tense those are the things we were just going over so which perfect tense is used in the following sentence tom had walked all the way home before his mom

arrived so let's identify the verb had walked okay now you want to look specifically at the word had very good okay so had is in what tense is in the present past future past perfect so that would be be past perfect tense had walked does this page make sense okay i'm gonna go ahead and flip it to the next one number eight indicate whether the verb is active or passive in the following sentence the ball broke the veins so let's talk about active versus passive verbs so when a sentence has a subje

ct so what's the subject in this sentence the ball when it has a subject that acts upon its verb it's active if the subject isn't acting it's the recipient of the verb's action it's passive so is the subject doing something or having something done to them the ball broke the phase so the verb here we have the ball you have how you have identified as the subject what would the verb be broke so if we look at the subject in relation to the verb the ball broke the ball did the breaking so it is acti

ve correct so if we move on to number nine indicate whether the verb is active or passive in the following sentence the phase was broken so this is a tough one i can see where it would feel like it's active but it's passive so it would be easier if we filled in the context the vase was broken by the ball very good we're going to go over that a lot as well i know a lot of students were having trouble with that one yeah no problem absolutely we have a lot of good examples coming up this week so le

t's move on to number 10 if that's okay all right indicate the pronoun in the following sentence what is the soup of the day all right so we're getting into pronoun work do you know how to define a pronoun we're gonna see a little word hidden in here noun and we know what a noun is a person place or thing so it's not a verb it's not an adjective what makes something a pronoun is that it can be substituted for other nouns so you want to substitute nouns for pronouns to make sentences flow a littl

e better if we spoke like some languages don't use pronouns like english does but in english it sounds pretty silly if we say dogs love going to the park dogs walk with dogs owners and dogs get to sniff interesting things that's not really how um we tend to speak in english we say more like dogs love going to the park they walk with their owners and they get to sniff interesting things we know that in that case they are referring to dogs because we had the context the first dogs the one that giv

es the context that would be known as the antecedent but we don't have to worry about that yet there are a lot of details about pronouns let's focus on what the question's asking so in our answers here you can see the word demonstrative and interrogative do you know what those are so demonstrative pronouns are the words these this that and those interrogative pronouns are always in a question who whom [Music] whose which and what so the pronoun in the following sentence what is the soup of the d

ay you're noticing that that word what right there has one of the interrogative pronouns and you can find that as c perfect so we're going to look here again demonstrate versus interrogative on number 11 indicate the pronoun of the following sentence the name of that is mango do you notice any of the words standing out to you that and remember that the word that is a demonstrative pronoun find that in the answer key letter d good job moving on to 12 we're going to start talking about reflexive v

ersus intensive pronouns so this question asks you to identify the pronoun whether it's reflexive or intensive the ship's captain earned himself a good night's sleep again this is a subset of a noun reflexive versus intensive can be tricky because they look the same but they play different roles when we have reflexive it's reflecting back on the subject an intensive is adding intensity or emphasis to a noun you can identify reflexive and intensive pronouns because they end in self or selves so i

n this sentence here the ship's captain earned himself a good night's sleep himself would be the pronoun and now we have to decide what role it's playing in this sentence is it reflecting back on the subject or is it adding emphasis the ship's captain earned himself a good night's sleep so it's actually reflecting back onto the subject which is the ship's captain so that would be reflexive letter c i'll use my red pencil will be consistent very good i know that's tricky but we have another examp

le here in 13 i'd love to go over with you same thing we're going to identify the pronoun whether it's reflexive or intensive ship captains themselves often stay up all night driving the ship you see the word cells themselves and i will say usually you'll see intensive appearing right after the noun and it's also typically not integral to the sentence itself because it's only adding emphasis um you can the sentence can exist without this word so let's take this one out too and see how that sound

s ship captains often stay up all night driving the ship no problem we can hear that that's a full sentence so it's probably adding emphasis ship captains themselves up here if we were to say the ship's captain earned a good night's sleep but we can see in sentence number 12 if we took out the word himself we would be losing that that reflection that we were talking about how himself reflects back here if we were to just say the ship's captain earned a good night's sleep we would be missing part

of this sentence even though it sounds like it could make sense grammatically we could fill in the context in our in our heads does the reflexive part of that make sense to you okay yep this is um everything that we're just starting to go over and building upon in the next couple of weeks so we can always go into things in more detail perfect so let's get an answer for number 13 themselves and intensive well done so 14 we're going to start talking about indefinite pronouns indefinite pronouns u

sually refer to a specific person or thing is that true or false well as you might be able to guess indefinite pronouns it means something you're referring to that isn't clearly defined so it does not usually refer to a specific person or thing and that would be false but the page because i know 15 we're gonna talk about indefinite pronouns a bit more and i think this is going to help with the explanation here so all of the following are indefinite pronouns except a the word both be no one see n

either or d it so we're going to look at these words does the word or phrase no one referred to anything specific no we know that that one's an indefinite neither or neither not referring to anything specific and in the same vein the word both that could be a little tricky because well you're saying well it's defining too but no since it's not a specific thing like the word it might be referencing both is an indefinite pronoun as well so because it is referring to something clearly defined that

would be our answer because the other three are indefinite pronouns there is a list of common indefinite pronouns that you see we'll be going over that so you can study those and start to get more comfortable with them so when you see it you can easily identify them once you start breaking it down it can start to get a little confusing absolutely moving on to 16 we have two sentences and we're gonna fill in the blanks this chair is yours that is someone else's chair so what this question is goin

g over is a very specific instance of possessive words and possessive pronouns apostrophe use and a lot of common mistakes that you see honestly we see it a lot in native english speakers because we don't really follow the actual rules these are all pronounced the same yours else's but there is one that is always correct and always incorrect i can explain it to you because we have the word yours y-o-u-r-s no apostrophe this is already a possessive word it's a possessive pronoun referring to some

thing you own it already exists in a possessive realm you don't need to add an apostrophe something like um that cat is hers it already is a possessive pronoun so you don't need the apostrophe to make it possessive because it already is possessive if we have else's here like someone else's someone else is a compound noun by itself we're referring to something person place or thing usually someone else is a person we're going to need to make that possessive and by making it possessive we need to

add in our apostrophe so it will always be yours without an apostrophe and else's with an apostrophe always that would be c there you go perfect question 17 we're doing a couple other apostrophe work now this is it's versus it's this one is its own question because sometimes a is correct and sometimes b is correct it's not like number 16 where it's always yours and always else's with an apostrophe so we have it's and it's with an apostrophe you know this one a bit so if you're trying to explain

it to somebody who doesn't know when we see the word it's without an apostrophe that's the possessive pronoun just like yours and hers it's with an apostrophe it's actually working as a contraction not as something that's making it um possessive so it would be it is it is versus the possessive pronoun its so if we're trying to say it's hot today you're really saying it is hot today and we're looking for the contraction perfect b but if you're talking about possession um like the tree and its bra

nches you want that possessive pronoun the it's without the apostrophe very good very good all right number 18 which of the following is a superlative adjective so we're going to need to know what a superlative adjective is you know an adjective describes something and the superlative is describing something at its highest or worst limit of its quality okay so if we have the word good that's a very basic adjective we have better and we have best because best is the highest limit of its quality t

hat is the superlative but if you take something like with a negative connotation like bad we have worse and we have worst now worst is the lowest limit of its quality you could say it's the highest bad you could be if you want to think about it that way so the words like best and worst those would be superlatives so here the base adjective is actually the word rich correct so we have rich richer and richest richest would be the highest quality it could be and that would be your superlative adje

ctive great okay good i'm glad that one makes sense number 19 this is another rule that we like to go over and although it looks quite simple this is deceivingly involved this is the less versus fewer argument um so we have after the game jon had less baseballs or is it supposed to be jon had fewer baseballs the base rule to follow is that fewer is usually referring to something that is counted so if i put it this way you can count glasses of water you know clearly how many glasses of water you'

ve drank how many are on the table it's um something you can count but if i just take water in general you don't typically count that you don't have three water exactly so you might say i have fewer glasses of water where i have less water fewer would go with the countable one and less would go with the non-counted one unfortunately there are exceptions oh yes the exceptions are time money distance and weight okay so even though you can count 12 hours so for looking at time here something like 1

2 hours easily countable you would think that you'd want to say fewer you actually want to say less than 12 hours away instead of fewer than 12 hours away so that would be one of those exceptions and there are certainly instances in language where the correct usage is actually too forced and unnatural so it's okay to use the word less with some countable nouns because it's natural so if we take in a grocery store 12 items or less right grammatically it should be 12 items or fewer but it's an ins

tance in our language where that would feel too forced so it's okay that we use 12 items or less anyway this is something that we have to teach you but i feel quite heated about because it is very um again involved let's just think about the basics here not worry too much about the details yet the answer to question 19 would be fewer because you can count baseballs john had fewer baseballs very good very good okay one more question is your brain fried yet no you're doing great absolutely no don'

t worry because all of this is part of the content that we're going over for the next test so it's not like it's going to be all brand new things and this is the last thing sally is taller than her or she so we're going to have to look at the word van here in this context it's a conjunction that means it's joining two sentences together so really you're saying sally is taller than she is okay sally is taller than she is joining the two sentences together colloquially sally is taller than her is

very accepted so if you were to write that in an essay or anything that requires full thoughts i would not mark you incorrect but on a grammar test just so i know you understand grammatically it should be b sally is taller than she okay we had a couple of tricky ones at the end there but it does seem like most people are starting to finish up their test so i'll leave this with you so you can look over it again just let me know if there is anything that you want to talk to me about after class i'

m here every day this week you did great yes i are so happy to have you and i look forward to learning with you this year okay i'm gonna go help the other students and i will see you later all right well done you