English Flashcards
Noun
Names a person, place, or thing.
Subject pronoun
Indicates who or what “performs” the action of a sentence as in: I, you, he, she, it, they and we are subjects.
Object pronoun
Indicates who and what “receives” action me, you, him, her, it, us and them are objects.
Singular noun
Names person person place or thing.
Plural noun
Names more than one.
Possessive noun
Shows ownership.
Adjective
Tells how, where, when, and to what extent.
Adjective
Tell what kind of, which one, or how many.
Adverb
Tells how, where, when, and to state of being.
Predicate
The sentence part that says something about the subject. It contains the verb or verb phrase.
Direct Object
Is a noun that follows an action verb. It receives the action.
Tense of a verb
Shows the time of action: past, present and future.
Commas
Are used to separate items in a series, to separate parts of dates, to separate parts of names.
Colons
Are used to separate hours and minutes in time or to introduce a list and follow a business letter.
Semicolons
Are used to separate independent clauses in a sentence.
Parentheses
Are used to show that information is not part of main statement.
Quotations marks
Used to show the beginning and end of someone’s exact words.
Sentence
A group of works the express a complete thought; has a subject and a predicate.
Simple sentence
A sentence the expresses only one complete thought.
Compound sentence
Made up of 2 simple sentences joined by a comma and the word and, but, or.
Sentence fragment
A word group that has no subject or predicate or does not express a complete thought.
Run- on sentence
Consists of 2 or more sentence joined without a conjunction.
Independent clause
Another name for a simple sentence.
Dependent clause
Has a subject and a verb but CANNOT stand alone as a sentence for it has no complete thought.
Complex sentence
Consist of one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses.
Compound-complex sentence
Consist of 2 or more independent clauses and at least one dependent clause.
