nouns
person, place, thing, idea
concrete noun
anything you can see, hear, touch, taste or smell
abstract noun
idea, quality, characteristic
collective noun
names a group
proper noun
capitalized; specific person, place, thing, or idea (named)
common noun
no specific, general (not named)
concrete OR abstract AND common OR proper
all nouns are what...?
collective
sometimes nouns are what...?
pronouns
words that take the place of a noun or another pronoun
antecedent
the word the pronoun refers to
antecedent
all pronouns what what...?
personal pronouns
person....speaking, being addressed, being discussed
possessive pronoun
shows possession or owndership
reflexive pronoun
reflects back to a noun or pronoun earlier in the sentence (adds information)
intensive pronoun
adds emphasis, does not add information
demonstrative pronoun
pronoun that is a specific person, place things or idea
interrogative
asks a question
relative
begins a subject-verb word group called a subordinate clause
indefinite
general, but not specific
verbs
expresses action or a state of being and is necessary to make a statement
action
verb that tells what someone or something does
linking verb
verb that links or joins subject to something describing or renaming the subject
verb phrase
consists of more than one verb
auxiliary/helping verb
verb form of be, have, and others
actions verbs
these verbs can be transitive or intransitive
transitive action verb
verb that answers the question what or who and have a direct object
intransitive action verb
verbs that do not answer the questions what or whom and do not have a direct object
adjective
modify or describe a noun or pronoun, they answer the question what kind, which one, and how many
article
a" and "an" are the indefinite articles and "the" is the definite article
the
definite article (the word)
a, an
indefinite article (the word)
proper adjective
proper nouns is used to modify a noun or pronoun
adverbs
modify verbs, adjective , and other adverbs;
how, when, where, to what extent
the question an adverb answers
negative
what type of words act as adverbs
negative adverbs
not, never, hardly, nowhere, barely and n't words are examples of what?
conjunction
word that joins single words or groups of words
coordinating
conjunction that has equal grammatical weight
correlative
conjunctions that work in pairs to join words of equal grammatical weight
subordinating
conjunction that joins clauses or ideas such as a way to make one dependent upon the other
conjunctive adverb
conjunction used to clarify the relationship between clauses of equal weight in a sentence.
interjection
a word or phrase that expresses emotion or exclamantion
words that are interjections
words that have no grammatical connection to other words
verbal
verb behaving badly; verb acting as something other than a verb
gerund
verb acting like a noun
participle
verb acting like an adjective
infinitive
to + a verb, acting like something other than a verb
preposition
word that shows the relationship between two things
appositive
noun renaming a noun