Nouns
names a specific person, place, thing, or idea
proper noun
Points out a specific person, place, or thing.
(this, that, these, those.)
Demonstrative Pronoun
Is a type of verb that tells what the action someone or something is performing.
Action Verb
Adjectives made up of more than one word, sometimes hyphenated or combined.
Compound Adjectives
Is a word that relates the noun or pronoun that appears with it to another word in the sentence.
Preposition.
Names a group of people or things.
collective noun
example: choir
Used as an object of a verb preposition, comes after the verb in a sentence.
Object Pronoun
Is a type of verb that connects its subject with a noun, pronoun, or adjective that identifies or describes the subject.
An adjective that compares two things or people with -er or more.
Comparative Adjective
A word that expresses feeling or emotion and functions independently within a sentence.
Interjection
Names who or what owns or has something.
Possessive Noun
The noun or group of words the pronoun refers to.
Antecedent
A type of verb that directs action toward someone or something named in the same sentence.
Transitive Verb
An adjective that compares more than two things or people with -est or most.
Superlative Adjective
Join two complete ideas by making one of the ideas dependent on the other.
Subordinating Conjunctions
Names things that you can see or touch.
Concrete Noun
Pronouns used to begin a question.
(what, which, who, whom, whose)
Interrogative Pronoun
A type of verb that does not direct action toward anyone or anything named in the same sentence.
Intransitive Verb
A word that modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb.
Adverb
These conjunctions join equal elements in sentences, but they always work in pairs.
Correlative Conjunctions
Names ideas, qualities, or feelings that cannot be seen or touched.
These two types of pronouns look the same, but function differently in sentences using the -self, -selves form of a word.
Reflexive and Intensive Pronouns.
Consists of a main verb and one or more helping verbs.
A few words that usually act as nouns that can function as adverbs that answer where and when. Some of these words are home, yesterday, today, tomorrow, mornings, afternoons, evenings, week, and year.
Nouns Functioning as Adverbs
Used as conjunctions to connect complete ideas. They are often used as transitions.
Conjunctive Adverbs