Parts of speech Flashcards
Noun
a person, place, thing, or idea
Common noun
Names a general noun, begins with a lower case letter.
Personal pronouns
1st person-pronouns having to do with me. 3rd person- pronouns having to do with you.
3rd person-pronouns having to do with everyone else.
Possessive personal pronoun
A pronoun indicating possession, for example mine, yours, hers, theirs
Adverb
A word or phrase the modifies or qualifies an adjective, verb, or other advert or word group, expressing a relation of place, time, circumstance, manner, cause, degree, etc
Articles
A word that goes before a noun such as a, an, and the
Conjunction
A word used to connect clauses or sentences or to coordinate words in the same clause, like and, but, if
Coodinating
A conjunction placed between words, phrases, clauses, or sentences, like and, but, or
Action verb
A verb that expresses something that a person, animal, object, or process in nature
Present tense
A tense expressing an action that is currently going on or habitually performed
Verbal
Relating to, or in the form of words
Participle
A word formed from a verb, such as going, gone, being, been, etc, and used as an adjective or a noun
Simple subject
A subject that has just one noun as the focus of the sentence
Complete subject
Has to have a subject and a verb and the verb has to be finite
Simple predicate
The basic word or words that explain what specific action the subject of the sentence is doing
Transitive verb
Of a verb able to take a direct object (expressed or implied)
Intransitive verb
A verb that doesn’t require a direct object, to indicate the person or thing acted upon.
Complete predicate
All the words in a sentence or clause except the subject and words that describe the subject.
Compliment
A word, phrase or clause that is necessary to complete the meaning of a given expression.
Direct object
A noun phrase denoting a person or thing that is the recipient of the action of a transitive verb.
Prepositional phrase
A group of words that begin with a preposition and ends with a noun, pre noun, or noun phrase
Object of the preposition
A noun or pronoun that comes after a preposition
Clause
A sentence in rank and in traditional grammar said to consist of a subject and predicate.
Independent clause
A clause that can stand by itself as a simple sentence
Compound sentence
A sentence with more than one subject
Imperative sentence
A sentence that expresses a direct command, request, invitations, warning, or instruction
Capitalization
The action of writing or printing in capital letters or with an intial capital
Possessive noun
Shows ownership
Past tense
Happened previously
Declarative sentence
Makes a statement and ends in a period
Semicolon
Joins 2 independent clause, can be used in series with commas for clarity, and can be used in a compound sentence
Apostrophe
Used to make words possessive, and to make contractions
Nominative personal pronoun
Singular - I, you, he, she, it
Plural - we, you, they
Participle phrase
Participle plus its modifier and objects
Object of the participle
Follows participle and tells “what”
Simple sentence
One independent clause
Proper noun
Names a specific noun; begins with a
Capital letter
Relative pronoun
Starts and adj dependent clause, that, which, who, whom, whose
Demonstrative pronoun
Demonsrates which one, this, that, these, those
Linking verb
Links two words together, is, be, am, are, was, were, been, being, appear, become, feel, grow, look, remain, seem, smell, sound, stay, taste, etc/
Interjection
Expresses emotion but has no real connection in the sentence
Predicate nominative
Is a noun or pronoun, follows a linking verb, and renames the subject
Dependent clause
Can never stand alone, starts with a relative pronoun, a subordinating conjunction, or a noun clause identifier
Adj dependent clause
usually starts with a relative pronoun, acts like an adjective
Complex sentence
One independent clause = one or more dependent clause
Exclamatory sentence
Expresses a strong feeling and ends in an exclamation mark
Quotation marks
Quotes titles, etc, quotes dialogue, etc
Pronoun
Takes the place of a noun
Adjective
Modifies a noun, tells which on, how many, and what kind
Preposition
shows a relationship between a noun or pronoun and some other word in a sentence
Objective personal pronoun
Singular- me, you, him, her, it
Plural- us, you, them
Helping verb
Helps an action verb or linking verb
Interrogate sentence
Asks a question and ends in a question mark
