A group of related words that is used as a single part of speech and that does not contain both a verb and its subject.
What is a phrase?
100
The main word or word group that tells whom or what the sentence is about.
What is a subject?
100
A word or word group that is used to name a person, a place, a thing, or an idea.
What is a noun?
100
A word that shows the relationship between a noun or pronoun to another word.
What is a preposition?
100
Vantage point from which a writer tells a story. In broad terms there are three possible points of view: omniscient, first person, and third person limited.
What is point of view?
200
A verb form that can be used as an adjective.
What is a participle?
200
the main word or word group that tells something about the subject.
What is predicate?
200
A word that is used in place of one or more nouns.
What is a pronoun?
200
A word that joins words or word groups.
What is a conjunction?
200
The voice telling the story.
What is narrator?
300
A verb form ending in --ing that is used as a noun.
What is a gerund?
300
A word or word group in the predicate that identifies or describes the subject.
What is a subject complement?
300
A word that is used to modify a noun or pronoun.
What is an adjective?
300
A word that expresses emotion but has no grammatical relation to the rest of the sentence.
What is an interjection?
300
Mask or voice assumed by a writer.
What is a persona?
400
A verb form that can be used as a noun, an adjective, or an adverb.
What is an infinitive?
400
A complement that does not refer to the subject and follows a transitive verb.
What is an object.
400
A word that expresses action or a state of being.
What is a verb?
400
A verb that connects the subject to a word or word group that identifies or describes the subject.
What is a linking verb?
400
The writer’s or speaker’s distinctive use of language in a text.
What is voice?
500
A noun or a pronoun placed beside another noun or pronoun to identify or describe it.
What is an appositive?
500
In a request or command, the subject of the sentence is usually not stated.
What is the understood subject?
500
A word that modified a verb, an adjective, or an adverb.
What is an adverb?
500
A verb that expresses either physical or mental action.