Parts of Speech

Something that can be seen heard smelled touched or tasted

Concrete noun

Abstract noun

Hyphenated noun

An idea feeling quality or characteristic

Abstract noun

Concrete noun

Personal pronouns

A noun made up of more than one word

Compound noun

Common noun

Proper noun

Names any one of a class of people, places or things such as student, school, state

Common noun

Proper noun

Compound noun

Names a specific person, place or thing such as Emma, St James, Ohio

Proper noun

Common noun

Pronoun

Words that take the place of a noun (he, she)

Pronoun

Noun

Personal pronoun

The noun for which a pronoun stands for

Antecedents of pronoun

Pronoun

Personal pronoun

Refers to the person speaking, spoken to, or the person, place or thing spoken about

Personal pronouns

Antecedent of pronouns

Indefinite pronouns

Ends in self or selves and adds info to the sentence by pointing back to a noun or pronoun in the setnence.

Reflexive pronouns

Intensive pronouns

Singular demonstrative pronouns

Ends in self or selves and simple adds emphasis to a noun or pronoun in the sentence

Intensive pronouns

Demonstrative pronouns

Reflexive pronouns

This, that

Singular demonstrative pronouns

Plural demonstrative pronouns

Interrogative pronouns

Direct attention to specific people or things

Demonstrative pronouns

Singular demonstrative pronouns

Plural demonstrative pronouns

These, those

Plural demonstrative pronouns

Singular demonstrative pronouns

Interrogative pronouns

That, which, who, whom, whose

Relative pronouns

Plural demonstrative pronouns

Interrogative pronouns

Used to begin a question (what, which, who who, whose)

Interrogative pronouns

Relative pronouns

Singular demonstrative pronouns

Refer to people, places, or things often without specifying which ones like "some of the players"

Indefinite pronouns

Relative pronouns

Interrogative pronouns

A word that expresses time while showing an action, condition or the fact that something exists

Verb

Noun

Adverb

A verb that tells what action someone or something is performing - shows visible and mental

Action verb

Linking verb

Transitive verb

Is directed towards someone or something named in a sentence - Bill reads fiction novels

Transitive verb

Intransitive verb

Action verb

Verb does not direct action towards someone or something -Bill reads every night before bed

Intransitive verb

Transitive verb

Kinking verb

A verb that connects a word at or near the beginning of the sentence with a word or near the end - words like am, are, is, was, were

Linking verbs

Action verb

Transitive verb

In order to determine whether a verb is linking or action

Substitute am, is, or are in the sentence and if it makes sense its a linking verb

Substitute am, is, or are in the sentence and if it doesn't makes sense its a linking verb

Substitute the, at, or in the sentence and if it makes sense its a linking verb

In order to determine whether a verb is linking or action

Substitute am, is, or are in the sentence and if it doesn't make sense it's an action verb

Substitute the, and, or in the sentence and if it doesn't make sense it's an action ver

Substitute it, the , but in the sentence and if it doesn't make sense it's an action ver

Verbs that can be added to another verb to make a single verb phrase - any forms of BE can be used

Helping verb

Linking verb

Action verb

A word used to describe a noun or pronoun to give it a more specific meaning

Adjective

Noun

Verb

Indicates that the noun it modifies refers to a specific person or thing

Definite article

Indefinite article

Article

Indicates the noun they modify to anyone class, people, places or thing

Indefinite article

Definite article

Article

A noun used as an adjective answers the questions

What kind or which

How or why

Yes or no

A proper noun used as an adjective or an adjective formed from a proper noun

Proper adjective

Proper noun

Proper adjective

Modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb

Adverb

Adjective

Proper adjective

An adverb modifying a verb answers the questions

Where? When? In what matter OR to what extent?

Why? what?

Who? what?

Made up of more than one word

Compound adjective

Proper adjective

Adjective

An adverb modifying an adjective answers on one question

To what extent?

Why?

When?

A word that relates a noun or pronoun that appears with it to another word in the sentences

Prepositions

Adverbs

Pronouns

A group of words that includes a preposition and a noun or pronoun

Prepositional phrases

Prepositions

Conjunctions

A word used to connect words or groups of words

Conjunction

Coordination conjunction

Prepositional phrases

Connects similar words ot group of words and always appears in pairs

Coordination conjunction

Conjunction

Correlative conjunctions

What words are in fanboys

For and not but or yet so

For am not but or yet so

For at nor but out you said

Examples of correlative conjunctions

Both and either or neither nor but only also

Is it not just

But never ever every

Connects two complete ideas by making one of the ideas subordinate or less important to the other

Subordinating conjunctions

Correlative conjunctions

Conjunctions

Examples of subordinating conjunctions

After, before, even, though, if, once, that, that, though, until, whether, while

Who, what, when, what, why

That, this, those, think, then, them

A word that expresses feeling or emotion and function independently of the sentence - ouch, joy, yahoo

Interjection

Conjunctions

Prepositions

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