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A word or group of words that modifies nouns or pronouns.
Adjectival Element
One of the 4 kinds of sentences: it makes a statement and ends with a period.
Declarative Sentence
The adjectives the, a (or an)
Article
Names any person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun
One of the 4 kinds of sentences: gives a command and ends with a period or exclamation point.
Imperative Sentence
Exclamatory Sentence
One of the 4 kinds of sentences: asks a question and ends with a question mark.
Interrogative Sentence
A verb that helps another verb express its meaning. Am, is, are, was, were, be, being, been...
Helping Verb
A part of speech used to show the relationship between certain words in a sentence.
Preposition
Classes of words with the same kind of meaning and use. Nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, pronouns, conjunctions, and interjections.
Eight Parts of Speech
Principal elements in a sentence: a noun or pronoun and is what the sentence is about.
Subject
A group of words containing a subject and a predicate.
Clause
A part of speech, used to define or describe the meaning of a noun or pronoun. Answers the questions how many, whose, which one, or what kind.
Adjective
A word or group of words that completes the meaning of the action verb.
Objective Element
A group of words expressing a complete thought.
Sentence
Am, is, are, was, were, be, being, been. Express a state of being when they behave like linking verbs.
Be Verbs
A part of speech that modifies a verb, an adjective, or an adverb. Answers the questions how, when, or where.
Adverb
A verb that joins the subject to the predicate. Express a state of being.
Linking verbs
Objective element that tells what the subject is acting on. It is a noun or pronoun after a transitive verb.
Direct Object
The last comma before the conjunction in a series of words, phrases, or subordinate clauses.
Oxford Comma
One of the principal elements in a sentence. It tells something about the subject like what it is doing or being.
Predicate
A part of speech that shows action or a state of being.
Verb
Phrases, clauses, principal elements, and modifiers.
Order of Analysis
A verb that does not take an objective element or join the subject to the predicate.
Intransitive Verb
A group of words that includes a preposition followed by a noun or pronoun. Answers the questions when, where, or how.
Adverbial Prepositional Phrase