English Grammar
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- Nouns
- A word or word group used to name a person, place, thing, or idea
- Common Nouns
- names a noun that is NOT capitalized
- Proper Nouns
- Names a particular noun that IS capitalized
- Concrete Nouns
- Names a noun that can be precieved by one or more senses (sight, hearing, smell, touch, etc.)
- Abstract Nouns
- Names an idea, feeling, quality, or charachteristic (ex. freedom, well-being, beauty, kindness, Christianity)
- Compound Nouns
- consists of two or more words used together as a single noun. They maybe be one word, seperated words, or joined by a "-"
- Collective Nouns
- Words that name a group (ex.audience,chorus,crew, committe, band,flock)
- Pronoun
- A word that is used in place of one or more nouns or pronouns
- Antecedent
- word that the pronoun stands for or refers to
- First Person
- refers to one speaking (I, Me, My, Mine, We, Us, Our, Ours)
- Second Person
- the one spoken to (you, your, yours)
- Third Person
- the one spoken about (he, him, his, she, her, hers, it, its, they, them, their, theirs)
- Reflexive Pronouns
- refers to subject of a sentence and functions as a compliment or as an object of a preposition
- Intensive Pronouns
- emhphasizes an antecedent
- Demonstrative Adjectives and Pronouns
- The words this, that, these, those can be used as both adj. and pronouns. When they modify nouns or pronouns they are called demonstrative adjectives. When they take the place of the nouns or pronouns they are called demonstrative pronous.
- Articles
- Most frequently used adjectives (a,an,the)
- Verbs
- word this is used to express action or state of being. Verbs are classified in 2 ways 1. as transitive or intransitive verbs 2. as action, helping, or linking verbs
- Action Verbs
- expresses physical or mental action
- Linking Verbs
- connects the subject to a word or word group that identifies or describes the subject
- Be Verbs
- most commonly used linking verbs are forms of the verb BE
- Verb Phrases
- consists of atleast one main verb and one or more helping verbs
- Adverbs
- modifies a verb, an adjective or another adverb. Tells where, when, how, or to what extent (how long or how much)
- Adverbs that modify verbs answer to the questions...
- ...where, when, how, to what extent
- Prepositions
- a word that shows the relationship of a noun or pronoun to answer another word
- Rules of Prepositions
- Many words that can be used as a prep. as well as an adverb. you must ask wherther the weord relates a noun or pronoun to a word.
- Prepositon Phrases
- A prep., its object, and any modifiers of the object together for a prepositional phrase.
- TO + A VERB =
- AN INFINITIVE
- HINT
- Be carful not to confuse a prepositional phrase that begins with to with an infinitive that begins with to.
- Remember...
- a prep. phrase alweays has a noun or pronoun as its object. An infinitive is the word to plus a verb.
- Conjunctions
- Start things out (FANBOYS)
- F
- FOR
- A
- AND
- N
- NOR
- B
- BUT
- O
- OR
- Y
- YET
- S
- SO
- Interjection
- word that expresses emotion. has no grammatical relation to the rest of the sentence.