nouns and pronouns
Any person, place, or thing. A specific person, place or things.
What is a common and proper noun?
A word that shows or tells of an action. This can be a physical action or mental action.
What is a verb?
Words that describe how a noun or pronoun looks, smells, sounds, feels, or tastes.
What is a descriptive adjective?
These words tell how, when, where, how often, or to what extent about the verb they modify.
What is an adverb?
The group of words to which a preposition belongs, ending with a noun or pronoun. Names these words and what the noun or pronoun is known as.
What is a prepositional phrase? What is the object of the preposition?
Nouns that cannot be seen or touched. Nouns that can be seen and touched.
What is an abstract and a concrete noun?
Instead of expressing and action, some verbs express condition or state of being and serve as a link between words. The most common are forms of the verb be, which are: am, is, are, was, and were. Other common types of this verb are: appear, seem, look, smell, taste, feel, and sound.
What is a linking verb?
Words that tell how many, which one, or whose about a noun or pronoun. They include words like a, an, the.
What is a limiting adjective?
Adverbs like not (and its contraction form n't), never, hardly, surely, barely, and always are adverbs found in what phrases?
What is a verb phrase?
This type of word ALWAYS had an object. If there is no object this word is known as what?
What is a preposition? What is an adverb?
A noun that shows ownership. A word used in place of one or more nouns.
What is a possessive noun? What is a pronoun?
This verb expresses the action or being in the sentence.
What is a main verb?
Words like few, many, several, some, numerous, all, and much can be used as limiting adjectives.
What are indefinite pronouns?
Words like very, too, rather, so, quite, unusually, extremely, and especially are words that help describe adjectives.
What are adverbs of degree?
This word joins words or groups of words.
What is a conjunction?
The word or words to which a pronoun refers.
What is an antecedent?
This verb works with the main verb to help it express its meaning.
What is a helping verb?
Demonstrative pronouns like this, that, these, and those can be used as adjectives to tell which one about a noun when they point out a specific person, place or thing.
What are demonstrative adjectives?
This word shows the relationship between the noun or pronoun to another word in the sentence.
What is a preposition?
These conjunctions: both/and, either/or, neither/nor, not only/but also work in pair to join words or groups of words.
What are correlative conjunctions?
A pronoun that refers back to the subject used earlier in the same sentence.
What is a reflexive pronoun?
This contains a main verb and is preceded by one or more helping verbs.
What is a verb phrase?
The articles a, an, and the are limiting adjectives. An article is used before a noun in a sentence to tell that the noun is coming.
An and an refer to any noun.
The refers to a specific noun.
What is an indefinite article and what is a definite article?
This is a preposition that contains more than one word such as "according to" or "in front of"
What is a compound preposition?
A word or phrase that expresses feelings or emotions.
What is an interjection?