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A word that expresses action.
verb
"A", "an", and "the" are called.
articles
The name of a person, place, or thing.
noun
A word used to modify a noun or pronoun.
adjective
A word used to refer to a noun.
pronoun
Second form of adjectives and adverbs.
comparative
A verb whose past form is not formed with the -ed ending.
irregular verb
gerund
A noun that doesn't have a plural form,
e.g. knowledge, information, advice.
uncountable noun
When the subject of the sentence receives the action, e.g. John was given a book for his birthday.
passive voice
A pronoun used to indicate ownership, e.g. his, ours.
possessive pronoun
A word or group of words that receives the action of the verb.
Third form of a verb.
Third form of adjectives and adverbs.
superlative
A helping verb used to form questions and negatives.
auxiliary verb
A grammatical unit which contains a verb.
clause
A joining word, e.g. but, however, although.
conjunction
First form of adjectives and adverbs.
positive
A word expressing surprise or emotion.
interjection
A basic speech sound in which the breath is at least partly obstructed.
consonant
A verb that doesn't take a direct object, e.g. "rains" in the sentence It rains.
intransitive verb
When two or more words are habitually used together, e.g. fast food.
collocation
A change in or an addition to the form of a word that shows a change in the way it is used in sentences.
inflection
A combination of two vowel sounds.
diphthong
A word or lexical unit formed by combining two or more words, e.g. blackbird, living room.
compound