Clauses
Phrases
Parts of Speech
100
A group of words that contains a verb and its subject and is used as part of a sentence.
What is a clause.
100
A group of related words that is used as a single part of speech and does not contain both a verb and its subject.
What is a phrase?
100
A word used to modify by telling how, when, where, or to what extent. Ex: The bird chirped today.
What is an adverb?
200
A subordinate clause that modifies a noun or a pronoun. Ex: Our town's civic center, which was renovated last year, has been declared a landmark.
What is an adjective clause?
200
Climbing the tree, the monkey disappeared into the branches. The concert scheduled for tomorrow at the park has been postponed.
What is a participial phrase?
200
A word that shows the relationship of a noun or pronoun to some other word in the sentence. I rode through the village.
What is a preposition?
300
A subordinate clause that modifies a verb, or an adjective. Donna sounds as if she has caught a cold.
What is an adverb clause?
300
Ex: She wants to be a truck driver. Ex: It is sometimes difficult to listen attentively.
What is an infinitive phrase?
300
A word used to modify a noun or pronoun. Ex: Strong winds were blowing across the plains.
What is an adjective?
400
Ex: I know that she is worried.
What is a noun clause?
400
Ex: The woman with the helmet is a motorcyclist.
What is a prepositional phrase?
400
The most frequently used adjectives which are a, an, and the.
What is an article?
500
Who, whom, whose, which that are words that introduce an adjective clause. They are more commonly known as
What is relative pronoun?
500
Ex: The sudden shattering of glass broke the silence. Ex: She enjoys hiking in the mountains.
What is a gerund phrase?
500
A word that expresses emotion and has no grammatical relation to other words in the sentence.
What is an interjection?
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