Grammer 2
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- Noun
- word that names a person, a place, a thing, or an idea
- concrete noun
- names an object that occupies space or can be recognized by any of the senses; things you can hear, see, taste, touch, smell, or feel
- abstract noun
- names an idea a quality or a characteristic
- proper noun
- name of a particular person, place, thing, or idea
- common noun
- is the general name of a person place, thing, or idea
- collective noun
- names a group
- pronoun
- word that takes place of a noun, a group of words acting as a noun or another pronoun
- antecedent
- word or group of words that a pronoun refers to
- personal pronoun
- refers to a specific person or thing by indicating the person speaking, the person being spoken to, or any other person or thing being spoken about
- reflexive pronoun
- refers or reflects back, to a noun or pronoun used earlier in the sentences (adds information)
- intensive pronoun
- adds emphasis to a noun or pronoun
- demonstrative pronoun
- points out specific persons, places, things, or ideas
- interrogative pronouns
- used to form questions
- relative pronoun
- used to begin a special subject-verb word group
- indefinate pronoun
- refers to persons, places, or things in a more general way than a noun does
- verbs
- words that expresses action or state of being and is necessary to make a statement
- action verb
- tells what someone or something does
- transitive verb
- is an action verb that is followed by a word or words that answer the question "what" or "whom"
- intransitive verb
- an action verb that is followed by a word that answers the question "when" or"why"
- linking verb
- links or joins the subject of a sentence with a word or expression that identifies or describes the subject. DOESN'T SHOW ACTION
- verb phrase
- consists of a main verb and all its auxiliary or helping verbs
- adjective
- word that modifies a noun or pronoun by limiting its meaning
- adverb
- a word that modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb by making its meaning more specific
- preposition
- word that shows the relationship of a noun or pronoun to some other word in a sentence
- compound preposition
- prepositions that is made up of more than one word
- conjunction
- word that joins single words or groups of words
- correlative conjunctions
- work in pairs to join words and groups of words of equal weight in a sentence
- subordinating conjunction
- joins 2 clauses or ideas in a such a way as to make one grammatically dependent upon the other
- conjective adverb
- used to clarify the relationship between clauses of equal weight in a sentence
- interjection
- word or phrase that expresses emotion or exclamation
- sentence
- a group of words expressing a complete thought
- subject
- part of the sentence about which something is being said
- predicate
- the part that says something about the subject
- simple subject
- the key noun or pronoun that tells what a sentence is about
- simple predicate
- verb or verb phrase that tells something about the subject
- complete subject
- consists of the simple subject and all the words that modify it
- complete predicate
- consists of the simple subject and all the words that modify it or complete its meaning
- compound subject
- made up of two or more simple subjects that are joined by a conjunction and have the same verb
- compound predicate
- made up of two or more verbs or verb phrases that are joined by a conjunction and have the same subject
- complement
- word or group of words that completes the meaning of a verb
- direct object
- answers the question "what" or "whom" after an action verb
- indirect object
- answers the question "to whom" "for whom" "to what" or "for what" after an action verb
- object complement
- answers the questions "what" after a direct object
- subject complement
- follows a subject and a linking verb and identifies or describes the subject
- predicate nominative
- a noun or pronoun that follows a linking verb and points back to the subject to identify it further
- predicate adjective
- follows a linking verb and points back to the subject and further describes it
- phrase
- a group of words that acts in a sentence as a single part of
- prepositional phrase
- a group of words that begins with a preposition and usually ends with a noun or pronoun
- appositives
- a noun or a pronoun that is placed next to another noun or pronoun to identify or give additional information about it
- appositive phrase
- an appositive plus any words that modify the appositive
- verbal
- a verb form that function in a sentences as a noun, an adjective, or an adverb
- verbal phrase
- a verbal plus any complements and modifiers
- participle
- a verbal plus any complements and modifiers
- participle phrase
- contains a participle plus any complements and modifiers
- gerund
- verb form that ends in -ing and is used in the same way a noun is used
- gerund phrase
- a gerund plus any complements and modifiers
- infinitive
- a verb form that is usually preceeded by the word "to" and is used as a noun, an adjective, or an adverb