grammar Flashcards
Pronoun
A word used in place of one or more nouns or pronouns (they, it he)
Noun
Names, a person, place, thing, or idea
Adjective
Modifies a noun or pronoun (what kind, which one, how many, how much)
Verb
Expresses action or a state of being
Preposition
Shows the relationship of a noun or pronoun called the objective of the preposition, to another word
Conjunction
Joins words or groups
Interjection
Expresses emotion and has no grammatical relation to the rest of the sentence
Personal pronoun
Refers to one speaking, the one spoken to or the one spoken about (I, me, my, you, your, yours, him, he, she, her)
Reflexive pronoun
Refers to the subject of a sentence and functions a complement or as an object of a preposition (not needed)
Intensive pronoun
Emphasizes its antecedent (needed)
Demonstrative pronoun
Points out a specific person, place, thing, or idea. (Example. This, that, these, those)
Interrogative pronoun
Introduces a question (example. who, whom, whose, which, what)
Relative pronoun
Introduces a subordinate clause
That, which, who, whom, whose) (example the women WHO
Indefinite pronoun
Noun that may not be specifically named (all, another, nobody, such)
Proper noun
names and particular person, place, thing, or idea
Collective noun
In a singular form, names a group (ex. Jury, band, family, class,)
Compound noun
Two or more words that come together to name a person, place, thing, or idea. (Example. Stairway, bookcase, caulking fan, sister-in-law)
Articles
Most frequently used adjectives are a, an, and the)
Indefinite article
A, an because they refer to any member or group in general
Action verb
Expresses either physical or mental activity (speak, think)
Helping verb
usually come before the actual verb
Linking verb
Connects the subject to a word or a word group that identifies or describes the subject (could be, had been, grow, look, appear)
Transitive verb
Has an object- a word that or word group that tells who or what receives the action of the verb
Intransitive verb
does not have a object
Adverb
Modifies a verb, an object, or another adverb (tells where, when, how, or to what extent)
Common noun
Names any of the one nouns
Subordinating conjunction
Begins as a subordinate clause and connects it to an independent clause
Correlative conjunction
Are pairs on conjunctions that join words or word groups that are used in the same way
