Nouns
A thing that you can not see, hear, taste or touch.
What is an abstract noun
A pronoun takes the place of this.
What is a noun?
Adjectives describe or limit these two parts of speech.
What are nouns and pronouns
A verb can express action or state of this.
What is being?
An adverb modifies or describes these three parts of speech.
What are verbs, adjectives and other adverbs?
A particular person, place thing or idea
What is a proper noun?
There are four qualities of pronouns. This quality tells if something is male, female, or neuter?
What is gender?
This type of adjective is formed from a proper noun and always gets a capital letter.
What is a proper adjective?
This is a group of words that does the work of a single verb. It includes the main verb and its helping or auxiliary verbs.
What is a verb phrase?
Adverbs usually end in these two letters.
What are LY?
When a group of persons or things are considered one unit.
What is a collective noun?
There are four qualities of pronouns. This quality tells if something is singular or plural.
What is number?
A, An and The are this type of limiting adjectives.
What are articles?
A verb expresses an action that passes from a doer to a receiver. This action verb has a direct object.
What is a transitive verb?
What is an adverb of negation?
A noun in a prepositional phrase.
What is the object of the preposition?
There are four qualities of pronouns. This quality tells what point of view a story is written from.
What is person?
This is a word that can either be a pronoun or an adjective depending on how it is used in a sentence.
What is a pronominal?
This verb has no receiver of its action.
What is an intransitive verb?
These adverbs tell about the intensity of something. They include; almost, nearly, quite, just, too, enough, hardly, scarcely, completely, very, extremely
What are adverbs of degree?
When two nouns follow each other, the first noun is the subject of the sentence, the second noun, followed only by a comma, provides more information about the subject.
What is a noun in apposition?
This word means something that precedes something else (goes before). In language, it is the word that a pronoun refers back to.
What is an antecedent?
First, Second, Third are examples of this type of limiting adjectives.
What are ordinal numbers?
A verb that show a relationship between the subject of the sentence and a noun or adjective being linked to it.
What is a linking verb?
These adverbs tell where something happens. They do not modify adjectives or other adverbs. Some examples of these adverbs: here, everywhere, outside, away, and around
What are adverbs of place?