Grammar terms
grammar terms
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- indefinite articles
- "a" and "an"
- subject pronouns
- pronoun form used when the word is the subject of the sentence: he she they you it who
- conjunction
- a word that joins words, phrases, or clauses.
- modal auxiliaries
- include a class of verbs that indicate necessity, ability, possibility, permission, or obligation
- preposition
- a word indicating a relationship between two things which may be spatial, temporal, grammatical or metaphorical.
- clause
- any group of words that has a subject and a verb (or Predicate)
- examples of prepositions
- about, above, across, after, against, along, amid, among, around, at, before, behind, below, beneath, beside, between, beyond, by, down, for, from, in, into, like, near, of, off, on, out, over, past, sans, since, through, to, towards, under, unto, up, upon, with, within, etc.
- adjective
- used to modify (describe) a noun.
- examples of modal auxiliaries
- can, could, would, should, ought, might, may, must, have to, had to.
- gerund
- a verb with an -ing ending that functions as a noun.
- countable noun
- a noun that can be preceded by a number indicating how many.
- pronoun
- a form that takes the place of a noun or a noun phrase.
- adverb
- a word that is used to modify the meaning of a verb, adjective, sentence or even another adverb.
- uncountable
- noun that cannot be preceded by a number indicating how many (E.g. mud, water, rice, love)
- English articles
- "a", "an", and "the"
- verb
- a word that shows action or state of being.
- definite article
- "the" indicates a definite entity that both the reader and writer recognize.
- object of the preposition
- the noun at the end of a prepositional phrase
- intransitive verb
- a verb that is not followed by an object.
- subject
- the noun or noun phrase of the MAIN verb in the sentence.
- antecedent
- the noun which the pronoun replaces or represents
- run-on sentence
- in written English occurs when two independent clauses are joined together with commas, inappropriate conjunctions, or no punctuation at all.
- conditional sentence
- a complex sentence that potentially expresses a hypothesis that is contrary to fact.
- Infinitive
- a basic verb form that is not marked for tense or person. It is usually preceded by the word "to."
- object pronouns
- pronoun form used when the word receives the action of the sentence or a preposition: him, her, them, whom, you, it
- possessive pronoun
- pronoun form used as an adjective to indicate ownership: his, her, their, its, your whose
- transitive verb
- a verb that required an object - it happens to something.
- sentence fragment
- a group of words that does not constitute a complete sentence.