| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Nouns | Words which name a person, place, thing or abstract concept. |
| Pronouns | Words that are used in place of a noun. |
| Verbs | "Doing", "having" or "being" words. |
| Adverb | Words that give more information about verbs, adjectives or other adverbs. Usually though, its the verb that adverbs describe. |
| Adjectives | is a word that describes. It makes a noun or pronoun more precise. |
| 1st Person | I, me, my, mine, we, us, our, ours. |
| 2nd Person | You, yours, your. |
| 3rd Person | He, him, his, she, her, hers, it, its, they, them, their, theirs. |
| Common Noun | Name anything we can see, hear or touch. |
| Proper Noun | Use capital letters. Use capital letters for the names of people and their titles, geographic locations, days, months. They are also used for the names of firms, churchs, schools, religions, nationalities and languages. |
| Abstract Noun | Name concepts, qualities or feelings - something we can not see her or touch. |
| The infinitive form of the verb | Is 'to + verb'. |
| The finite form of the verb | A verb that indicates tense and has a subject. |
| Simple sentence | Contains one finite verb. |
| Complex sentence | Contains two or more verbs. |
| Regular verb | Uses 'ed' to form the simple past tense. Eg. walk / walked. |
| Irregular verb | Does not use 'ed' to form the simple past tense. Eg. buy / bought. |
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