Parts of Speech Flashcards
singular or plural nouns (cat/cats)
countable nouns
air, water, furniture, luggage
non-countable (mass) nouns
names of people or places with a capital
proper nouns
nouns usually treated as singular rather than plural (jury, team, government)
collective nouns
continuous (present-progressive) verbs that act as nouns e.g., I like cycling
gerunds
a quality, state, or action (happiness, beauty, youth)
abstract nouns
2 nouns joined to make another noun (hairbrush, paper plane)
compound nouns
(pronouns) someone, anyone, everybody
indefinite pronoun
pronouns showing ownership (mine, yours, his, hers, its, etc)
possessive pronouns
this/that, that/those
demonstratives or demonstrative pronouns
myself, herself, ourselves
reflexive pronouns
adjectives (one, fifty)
numerical adjectives
big, round, red
qualitative adjectives
“which” book?
“what” ideas?
interrogative adjectives
what kind of verbs come in front of the main verb (be, have, do, shall, will)
auxiliary verbs
referring to the possibility or necessity of an action (can, could, might, must, ought to, should, would)
modal verbs
I was teaching English.
past continuous
I have taught English.
I had taught English.
(plus, what’s the 2nd verb called)
present perfect
past perfect
(past participle)
adding “ed” to a verb to make it past
regular verbs
past tense not adding “ed”
irregular verbs
to eat, eaten
A verb followed by a direct object.
The dog “ate” the food.
transitive verbs
A verb that does not have a direct object.
She laughed.
intransitive verbs
The subject does the action.
The boy hit the ball.
active voice
The subject receives the action.
passive voice
A verb phrase with a unique meaning.
take off, turn in, turn up, break in
phrasal voice
Adverbs that modify the meaning of an adjective.
dangerously ill, very, rather, totally
adverbs of degree
Adverbs used to comment on the whole statement.
Unfortunately, …
sentence adverbs
Adverbs that describe when something happened.
yesterday, today, tomorrow
I’ll go over there tomorrow afternoon
adverbs of time
on, under, between, next to, over
prepositions of place
before, after, between such and such a time
prepositions of time
Words used to join two sentences, phrases or words.
and, or, but, for, yet, so, neither/nor, either/or
coordinating conjunctions
Words used to join a subordinate clause to a main clause.
if, when, because, since, although, unless, as though, that
subordinating conjunctions
however, therefore, moreover, consequently, thus, in fact
adverbial conjunctions
oh, phew, ugh, hooray, ah
interjections/exclamations
