Academic Vocabulary, Pt. 1
The category that a word belongs to based on its grammatical function.
PART OF SPEECH
The grammatical process of making a statement, negative.
NEGATION
Indicates when an action takes place.
TENSE
The reversal of the typical subject-verb order in a sentence, often used to form questions.
INVERSION
A word that shows the relationship between a noun or pronoun and other words in a sentence.
PREPOSITION
Making sure that words match in gender, number, or person.
AGREEMENT
A word that names a person, place, thing, or idea.
NOUN
A word that modifies or describes a verb, adjective, or another word of its same type.
ADVERB
A verb that does not follow the regular conjugation patterns and must be memorized separately.
IRREGULAR VERB
The base form of a verb before any endings are added during conjugation.
STEM