These name specific persons, places, things, or ideas.
What are proper nouns?
100
This is a word that takes the place of the name for a noun or a group of words acting as a noun.
What are pronouns?
100
These answer one of these four questions.
· Which one?
· What kind?
· How many?
· How much?
What are adjectives?
100
These join word(s) that have equal grammatical weight in a sentence and include the words and, but, or, nor, so, yet.
What are coordinating conjunctions?
100
This is a word that expresses an action or a state of being and is necessary to make a statement.
What is a verb?
200
These are formed by adding either -'s or -s' to show ownership by a noun
What are possessive nouns?
200
This refers to a specific person or thing in first, second, or third person and may be singular or plural.
What is a personal pronoun?
200
These are formed from Proper nouns and begin with a capital letter and are often created by incorporating suffixes such as:
-an, ian, -ese, ish, -ic
What are proper adjectives?
200
These work in pairs to join words of equal grammatical weight in a sentence.
What are correlative conjunctions?
200
These join the subject of the sentence with a word or expression that identifies or describes the subject.
What are linking verbs?
300
These name general persons, places, things, or ideas.
What are common nouns?
300
These point out specific persons, places, things, or ideas
What are demonstrative pronouns?
300
These answer one of these five questions.
· When?
· Where?
· How?
· To what extent/degree?
· Under what condition?
What are adverbs?
300
These join 2 clauses to make one (the dependent clause) grammatically dependent on the other and begin with this kind of word.
What are subordinating conjunctions?
300
These words assist other words in creating tense.
What are helping verbs?
400
These occupy space and are detectable by the five senses.
What are concrete nouns?
400
These refer to persons, places, or things in a more general way than a noun does.
What are indefinite pronouns?
400
These include negative words like never and not.
What are adverbs?
400
This lyric precedes the line: "Hooking up words and phrases and clauses. "
What is "Conjunction Junction. What's your function?"
400
These express emotion but have no grammatical connection to the sentence.
What are interjections?
500
These name qualities, ideas, and characteristics.
What are abstract nouns?
500
These are used to begin a subordinate (dependent) clause to relate information from the subordinate clause to the main clause.
What are relative pronouns?
500
These specific kinds of adjectives indicate the presence of a noun; the only three words currently used as this in the English language are a/an & the
What are articles?
500
These are used to clarify the relationship between clauses of equal grammatical weight and include words such as: however, thus, besides, also, equally.
What are conjunctive adverbs?
500
These show relationship of a noun or pronoun to some other word in a sentence, but a sentence should never end in one of these.