Language Terms Flashcards
Parts of speech
The eight kinds of words
What two parts of speech are in every sentence
Noun and verb
What are the two main kinds of words
Nouns and verbs
Parts of sentence
The parts of ideas
Phrases
Little group of words
Clauses
Making simple or complicated ideas with subjects and predicates
Singular noun
A noun that means one thing, ex. Fisherman.
Plural noun
A noun meaning more than one thing, ex. Bagels.
Compound noun
Two nouns put together to mean one noun, ex. Mother-in-law.
Pronoun
Quick shortcuts that replaces longer nouns.
Ex: Instead of saying Mr. Man, you say he.
Verb
Saying that a noun or pronoun DOES or IS something.
Being verb
Means exist, ex: “Once, there WAS a hobbit.”
Action verb
Shows the noun or pronoun doing some action.
Ex: the fleet TURNED west toward the Seychelles.
Action verb “voice”
Active voice: The captain FIRED the cannon.
Passive voice: The cannon WAS FIRED by the captain.
Linking verbs
A linking verb says the subject IS something, for example, if I said James is a tyrant, IS links James to tyrant. It’s like math, both sides of the equal sign are equal, so James is a tyrant, James = tyrant.
Verb tense
Present tense: Sally HOISTS the sail.
Past tense: Sally HOISTED the sail.
Future tense: Sally WILL HOIST the sail.
Verb tense, progressive form
Each tense, present, past, and future have a progressive form.
Present tense: Sally IS HOISTING the sail.
Past tense: Sally WAS HOISTING the sail.
Future tense: Sally WILL BE hoisting the sail.
Perfect tenses
When an action has been completed as of a particular time, we use perfect tenses:
Present tense: Sally HAS HOISTED the sail.
Past tense: Sally HAD HOISTED the sail.
Future tense: Sally WILL. HAVE HOISTED the sail.
