Nouns
A person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a noun?
This shows an action or a state of being.
What is a verb?
These pronouns refer to people.
What are personal pronouns?
This is what every sentence should start with.
What is a capital letter?
This takes the place of a noun.
What is a pronoun?
A type of noun that refers to something general and is not capitalized.
What is a common noun?
This cateogry of verbs is used to create equivalences. (e.g. I am a teacher)
What are linking verbs?
These pronouns are used to ask questions.
What are interrogative pronouns?
Typically a noun (or pronoun) that performs the action in a sentence. (Who or what we're talking about)
What is a subject?
This describes a noun or pronoun?
This type of noun refers to something specific and named. This should always have a capital letter.
What is a proper noun?
These verbs apply their action to a direct object.
What is a transitive verb?
This group of pronouns includes the words: this, that, these, and those.
What are demonstrative pronouns?
A group of words that works together, but does NOT make a whole thought on its own
What is a phrase?
This can describe a verb, an adjective, or an adverb.
What is an adverb?
What is an abstract noun?
This type of verb precedes (comes before) a main verb. (e.g. I might give you a hint.)
What is a helping verb?
These pronouns are used to refer to oneself OR to create emphasis.
What is a reflexive pronoun?
A group of words that makes sense on its own. It has BOTH a subject and a predicate verb.
What is a clause?
This word is found at the beginning of phrases that indicate where or when something takes place.
What is a preposition?
This category of nouns sounds singular, but it refers to a large group of things. (e.g. a pack of wolves, a category of nouns, a bunch of bananas)
What is a collective noun?
The past tense of the word try. (Today, I try. Yesterday, I ______).
What is tried?
This pronoun is categorized as an interrogative, objective pronoun.
What is the pronoun "whom"?
Everything in a sentence that is NOT the subject. It starts at the main verb.
What is a predicate?
This part of speech is divided into two groups: coordinating (and, or, but, etc.) and subordinating (because, since, if, although, etc.).
What is a conjunction?