Key Elements & Definitions of Grammar

Question 1

Noun

Answer 1

Names a person, place, or thing.

Question 2

Subject pronoun

Answer 2

Indicates who or what “performs” the action of a sentence as in: I, you, he, she, it, they, and we are subjects.

Question 3

Object pronoun

Answer 3

Indicates who and what “receives” action me, you, him, her, it, us, and them are objects.

Question 4

Singular Noun

Answer 4

Names, person, place, or thing.

Question 5

Plural Noun

Answer 5

Names more than one.

Question 6

Possessive Noun

Answer 6

Shows ownership.

Question 7

Adjective

Answer 7

Tells what kind of, which one, or how many.

Question 8

Adverb

Answer 8

Tells how, where, when, and to what extent.

Question 9

Verb

Answer 9

Word that expresses action or a state of being.

Question 10

Predicate

Answer 10

The sentence part that says something about the subject. It contains the verb or verb phrase.

Question 11

Direct object

Answer 11

Is a noun that follows an action verb. It receives the action.

Question 12

Tense of a Verb

Answer 12

Shows the time of action: past, present, and future.

Question 13

Participles

Answer 13

Verb that functions as an adjective

Question 14

Preposition

Answer 14

A word that shows relationship between a noun or a pronoun. Over, under, into…

Question 15

Prepositional phrase

Answer 15

A group of words that included a preposition, an object of the preposition, and any modifiers/ or comparison of that object. By Makayla Bennett