Parts of Speech
These words connect 2 more words, phrases, or clauses.
Coordinating conjunctions.
A grouping of words that act as one part of speech.
Phrases.
Verbs are also known as these 'a' words.
Actions.
A noun when it represents who or what a sentence is about.
The subject.
These parts of speech modify or describe nouns and pronouns.
Adjectives.
The acronym FANBOYS names all of the words of what part of speech?
Coordinating conjunctions.
This type of sentence gives a command.
Imperative.
Verb phrases always include one main verb and 1 or more of these:
Helping verbs.
A part of speech that refers to another instance of a noun with less specificity is called a:
Pronoun.
Adverbs modify or describe verbs and...
Adjectives and adverbs.
This part of speech connects a noun and another word and relates to the direction or time of the word it modifies.
Preposition.
Parts of speech connected by a coordinating conjunction are referred to by this 'c' word.
Compound.
When a subject is doing 2 or more actions, we call those actions:
Compound verbs.
A noun that a preposition refers to is called the:
Object of the preposition.
These 3 parts of speech work to modify or describe another word in a sentence:
Adverbs, adjectives, and prepositional phrases.
An independent clause must have at least these 2 parts of speech:
Nouns and verbs.
What are the 7 coordinating conjunctions?
For, and, nor, but, or, yet, so
These types of verbs do not transfer their action to a direct object.
Intransitive Complete Verbs.
These nouns or pronouns receive the action of a transitive active verb.
Direct object.
These parts of speech act as either adverbs or adjectives and are always in a phrase.
Prepositions.
The parts of speech (name at least 7).
Nouns, verbs, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, and coordinating conjunctions.
A group of words that contains a subject and verb and expresses a complete thought.
Independent clause.
These verbs transfer their action to a direct object.
Transitive Active Verbs.
We have learned these three jobs that nouns can perform in a sentence.
Subjects, objects of the preposition, and direct objects.
Adjectives answer these 4 questions:
Whose, what kind, which one, and how many.