Literature Terms
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- noun
- names a person, place, thing, or idea
- predicate adjective
- after a linking verb to describe the subject of the sentence
- proper noun
- names a specific person, place, thing, or idea
- abstract noun
- name ideas, qualities, or feelings
- subject pronoun
- used as the subject of the sentence
- intransitive
- an action verb that does not have a direct object
- double negative
- using 2 negative words used together in the same sentence
- adverb
- a word that modifies, or describes, a verb, an adjective, or another adverb
- proper adjective
- formed from proper nouns; always begin w/a capital letter
- imperative sentence
- gives a command or makes a request
- correlative conjunction
- pairs of conjunctions (either or)
- demonstratives
- this, that, these, those
- contraction
- a word made by combining 2 words into one by leaving out 1 or more letters and adding an apostrophe
- indirect object
- is not directly affected by the action, but can either receive the direct object or have the action done for them ex. I gave (to) Mary a chocolate!
- object of the preposition
- The noun or pronoun that ends the prepositional phrase
- subject
- tells whom or what the sentence is about
- interjection
- a word or phrase that expresses feelings but has no grammatical connection to the sentence
- past perfect
- names an action that happened before another event or action in the past
- prepositional phrase
- a phrase beginning with a preposition
- preposition
- a word that connects a noun or a pronoun to another word in a sentence
- run-on sentence
- 2 or more sentences incorrectly written as 1 sentence
- past progressive
- names an action or condition that was continuing for some time in the past
- main verb
- primary action or state of being
- compound sentence
- contains 2 or more simple sentences joined by a comma and a coordinating conjunction or by a semicolon
- comparative
- compares 2 things or people
- predicate adjective
- always follows a linking verb ; modifies the subject of the sentence
- antecedent
- the noun or group of words to which a pronoun refers to
- intensive prooun
- adds emphasis to a noun or pronoun that has already been named
- indefinite pronoun
- does not refer to a particular person, place, or thing (Another, anybody, anyone, anything, each, either, everybody, everyone, everything, much, neither, nobody, no one, nothing, one, somebody, someone, and something
- object pronoun
- used as the object of a verb or of a preposition
- present progressive
- names an action or condition that is continuing in the present
- possessive noun
- names who or what owns or has something
- predicate adjective
- follows a linking verb and describes what the subject is like
- auxiliary verb
- helps the main verb tell about an action or make a statement
- tense
- tells when an action takes place
- adverb phrase
- a prepositional phrase that tells about a verb, an adjective, or another verb
- action verb
- a word that names an action and tells what a subject does
- compound subject
- 2 or more simple subjects that have the same predicate form a compound subject; subjects are joined by and, or, or but
- singular noun
- names 1 person, place, thing, or idea
- demonstrative pronouns
- when this, that, these, and those point out something and take the place of nouns
- plural noun
- names more than 1
- interrogative pronoun
- used to introduce an interrogative sentence; Who, Whom, Whose, Which, What
- complete predicate
- the simple predicate and all of its modifiers
- past participle
- usually formed by adding -ed to a verb
- direct object
- the object that receives the direct action of the verb
- reflexive pronoun
- refers to a noun or another pronoun and indicates that the same person or thing is involved
- present participle
- formed by adding -ing to a verb
- interrogative sentence
- asks a question
- future tense
- names an action that will take place in the future
- concrete noun
- name things that you can recognize with your senses
- adjective
- a word that provides information about the size, shape, color, texture, feeling, sound, smell, number, or condition of a noun or pronoun
- possessive pronoun
- shows who or what has something
- collective noun
- gives a single name to a group of individuals
- predicate noun
- follows a linking verb and tells what the subject is
- personal pronoun
- replaces the subject or object in a sentence
- simple sentence
- has 1 subject and one preicate
- predicate
- tells what the subject does or has
- present tense
- names an action that is happening now or happens regularly
- compound predicate
- has 2 or more simple predicates, or verbs, that have the same subject
- common noun
- names a any person, place, thing, or idea
- complete subject
- the simple subject and all of its modifiers
- compound noun
- are nouns made up of 2 or more words
- sentence
- a group of words that expresses a complete thought
- superlative
- compares more than 2 things or people
- coordinating conjunction
- connects words or phrases in a sentence (and, or, but, yet, so, nor, for)
- simple subject
- usually a noun or pronoun; is the main word or group of words in the complete subject
- present perfect
- names an action that happened some time in the past
- adjective phrase
- a prepositional phrase that tells about a noun or pronoun
- past tense
- names an action that already happened
- declarative sentence
- makes a statement
- transitive
- must have a direct object
- appositive
- noun placed next to another noun to identify it or add information about it
- exclamatory sentence
- to express strong feeling
- appositive phrase
- a group of words that includes an appositive and other words that describe the appositive
- pronoun
- a word that takes place of a noun or a group of nouns
- compound preposition
- consists of more than 1 word (instead of)
- simple predicate
- always a verb; is the main word or group of words in the complete predicate
- linking verb
- connects the subject of a sentence with a word in the predicate that identifies or describes the subject
- verb phrase
- consists of one or more helping verbs followed by a main verb
- demonstrative adjectives
- when this, that, these, and those describe nouns
- intensifier
- an adverb that modifies or intensifies an adjective or adverb
- sentence fragment
- does not have both a subject or a predicate is an incomplete sentence