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Nouns
Pronouns
Verbs
Modifiers
Phrases
100
This is the one type of noun that every sentence contains; it's what the sentence is about.
What is a subject?
100
A word such as IT or THEM which takes the place of a more specific noun.
What is a pronoun?
100
A word that expresses action, state of being, or condition. Along with the subject, it begins a complete thought.
What is a verb?
100
A word that modifies (describes) a noun or a pronoun.
What is an adjective?
100
A group of words that never contains a subject and a verb.
What is a phrase?
200
A noun that can be seen or touched. Examples include CAR, BOOK, and DESK.
What is a concrete noun?
200
The type of pronoun that includes I, YOU, HE, SHE, and IT.
What is personal pronouns?
200
The 23 words that sometimes appear before a main verb.
What is a helping verb?
200
A word that modifies (describes) an adjective, a verb, or another adverb.
What is an adverb?
200
A phrase that begins with a preposition (PR) and ends with an object of preposition (OP).
What is a prepositional phrase?
300
A noun that names a group. Examples include CLASS, TEAM, or FLOCK.
What is a collective noun?
300
The list of pronouns that includes EVERYONE, SOMEONE, MANY, and FEW.
What is indefinite pronouns?
300
An action word that always has a complement.
What is a transitive verb?
300
The only kind of word that normally appears between a helping verb and a main verb.
What is an adverb.
300
Prepositional phrases can answer these two kinds of questions, depending on whether they describe a noun or a verb.
What are adverb and adjective?
400
Two of the six things that nouns can do in a sentence.
What are subject, direct object, object of a preposition, indirect object, predicate nominative (SC), or appositive?
400
The subject of the sentence "Open your book to page 21."
What is (You) understood?
400
A state of being or condition verb is that is followed by a predicate nominative or a predicate adjective.
What is a linking verb?
400
One of the four questions an adverb provides the answer for.
What is Where? When? How? or To what extent?
400
If a prepositional phrase immediately follows a verb, that verb will almost always be this type.
What is intransitive?
500
A noun that is not perceived by the senses, including LOVE, STRENGTH, and SITUATION.
What is an abstract noun?
500
The subject in the sentence "This year we all need to make progress."
What is we?
500
An action, state of being, or condition verb that never has a complement.
What is an intransitive verb?
500
The three most common adjectives, they are also called articles or noun markers.
What are A, AN, THE?
500
A phrase that renames or clarifies the noun that it follows.
What is an appositive phrase?