Key Terms Flashcards
Prepostion
a word or group of words used before a noun, pronoun, or noun phrase to show direction, time, place, location, spatial relationships, or to introduce an object
Adjective
a word naming an attribute of a noun, such as sweet, red, or technical.
Adeverb
An adverb is a word or an expression that generally modifies a verb, adjective, another adverb, determiner, clause, preposition, or sentence
Verb
word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence, and forming the main part of the predicate of a sentence, such as hear, become, happen
Noun
noun is a word that represents a concrete or abstract thing, such as living creatures, places, actions, qualities, states of existence, and ideas.
Pronoun
word that you use to refer to someone or something when you do not need to use a noun, often because the person or thing has been mentioned earlier. Examples are ‘it’, ‘she’, ‘something’, and ‘myself’.’
Determiner
a word that modifies, describes, or introduces a noun.
Conjuction
a word used to connect clauses or sentences or to coordinate words in the same clause (e.g. and, but, if ).