These are both common, like "house," and proper like "The White House."
What are nouns?
100
These modify nouns or pronouns by giving specific information, like what kind, how many, or which one.
For example: green grass, two swimmers, this book
What are adjectives?
100
This is a word that expresses action or a state of being.
What is a verb?
100
These are words that express strong feelings or sudden emotions. They are often followed by an exclamation point (!) or a comma (,).
For example: Hey! Look at that hawk in the sky.
What are interjections?
100
These express the relationship between other words, typically nouns and verbs by describing where, how, or when.
What are prepositions?
200
These come in 1st person, like "I," 2nd person, like "you," and 3rd person, like "she" or "it."
What are pronouns?
200
These indicate time, place or manner. These answer the question when, where, or how often. They only modify verbs, adjectives and adverbs, NEVER nouns.
What are adverbs?
200
This tense of verbs indicates action that will take place, but hasn't yet. These verbs are often accompanied by "will" and "shall."
What is future tense?
200
What's their function? Well, to join words or groups of words together. There are three kinds: coordinating, correlative, and subordinating.
What are conjunctions?
200
Use this trick to figure out if a word is this type of speech: place the word before the phrase "the fence." If it makes sense, you will know the part of speech is a...
For example: before the fence, under the fence, across the fence, past the fence, over the fence
What is a preposition?
300
These MUST agree with its antecedent (noun that comes before) in number and in gender.
For example: Mary is invited to the party. She is fun to talk to.
What are pronouns?
300
The words "this," "that," "these," and "those" are used to point out a particular person, place or thing.
What are adjectives (demonstrative adjectives)?
300
These verbs change to past tense or past participle by adding "-d" or "-ed" to the present tense forms.
For example: I walk downtown. (present tense)
I walked downtown. (past tense)
I had walked downtown. (past participle)
What are regular verbs?
300
These are called "matching making" conjunctions because they connect equal parts of a sentence.
For example: and, or, but, for, nor, so, yet
What are coordinating conjunctions?
300
These words represent the prepositions in the following sentence:
John is sitting beside the lake below the green umbrella with the red flag.
What are "beside," "below," and "with?"
400
This names an idea, quality, or state of mind.
For example: happiness
What is an abstract noun?
400
The following words are this part of speech: finally, seldom, already, frequently, often, usually.
What are adverbs?
400
These are verbs which DO NOT form their past and past participle tense by adding "-d" or "-ed."
For example: "grow, grew, grown" and "see, saw, seen"
What are irregular verbs?
400
These are called "seesaw" conjunctions and ALWAYS work in pairs.
For example: either/or, neither/nor, not only/but also
What are correlative conjunctions?
400
These phrases represent the prepositional phrases in the following sentence:
She called out in a loud voice throughout the day.
What are "in a loud voice" (tells how she called) and "throughout the day" (tells when she called)?
500
These indicate ownership, like: my, mine, yours, his, hers, its, ours, theirs, etc.
What are possessive pronouns?
500
By adding these suffixes to adverbs and adjectives you can change the degree of comparison.
For example: A Ford is fast, a BMW is faster, and a Ferrari is fastest.
What is "-er" or "-est?"
500
This is a group of words that does the work of a single verb. There is a principal verb and one or more helping verbs.
For example: The teacher was trying to control the class.
What are verb phrases?
500
These are called "linking" conjunctions. They connect unequal parts of a sentence and help answer questions, like what, why, or how.
For example: because, although, since, while
What are subordinating conjunctions?
500
The following words represent the prepositions in the song lyric below:
"Over the river, and through the woods, to Grandmother's house we go..."