English 7 Parts of Speech
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 parts of speech | adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, interjections, nouns, pronouns, prepositions, verbs |
| concrete noun | A thing that can be seen, heard, smelled, touched, or tasted |
| abstract noun | names ideas, qualities, or feelings that cannot be seen or touched |
| collective noun | a noun that is singular in form but refers to a group of people or things |
| noun subject | "Towns" are sometimes located near rivers. |
| noun object | The firefighters rushed into the "building". |
| possessive noun | noun that shows ownership or relationship |
| pronoun | a word that takes the place of a noun |
| personal pronoun | refers to the one speaking (first person), the one spoken to (second person), or the one spoken about (third person) |
| relative pronoun | Start a dependent clause (Who, that, which, whom, whose) |
| antecedent | the word, phrase, or clause to which a pronoun refers. |
| intensive pronoun | emphasizes a noun or another pronoun in the same sentence |
| reflexive pronoun | reflect to "self" (myself, yourself, yourselves, himself, themselves, itself...NOT: hisself, ourself, theirselves)) |
| indefinite | pronoun that may or may not be already named |
| verbs | action words |
| present tense verb | happening now |
| future tense verbs | action that will take place |
| past tense verb | tells about something that happened in the past. |
| linking verb | Verb that connects the subject of a sentence with a word that describes it. Express a state of being (is, help, smell, taste, feel, was, were, sound) |
| helping verb | "helps" an action verb or a linking verb |
| irregular verbs | The past and the past participle of irregular verbs are not formed by adding -d or -ed |
| demonstrative adjective | tells which one; examples: this, that, these, and those |
| compound adjectives | They are adjectives that are made up of two or more words ex: hour-long |
| indefinite adjectives | When placed before a noun, they bring more information about the noun and become a limiting adjective. Examples: all, enough, few, much, many, more, most, never, some, etc. |
| predicate adjective | adjective that follows a linking verb and modifies the subject of the verb. |
| positive adjective | adjective used when no comparison being made; example: This is a HOT day. |
| superlative adjectives | compare three or more items. Superlative adjectives can be most often recognized by the added suffix of -est. |
| comparative adjective | an adjective used to compare two items; example: Today is HOTTER than yesterday. |
| prepositions | words that connect nouns or pronouns to other parts of a sentence |
| prepositional phrase | a phrase beginning with a preposition |
| object of a preposition | the noun or pronoun that follows a preposition. |
| conjunctions | for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so |
| correlative conjunctions | either or, neither nor, not only but also |
| subordinating conjunctions | used to join a dependent clause to an independent clause (if, when, while, because, as if, because, unless, although and many more) |
| commas | separate items in a series,separate two or more adjectives preceding a noun, and before and , but , or, nor, for, and yet when they join independent clauses |
| capitalization | capitalize: people's names and initials, personal titles and abbreviations, family relationships, the pronoun I, ethnic groups, languages, nationalities, religious terms (denominations, sects, sacred days, sacred writings, deities), the first word of every sentence, the first word of a quotation, the first word of greetings or closings in a letter, the first word of each entry in an outline, letters that introduce major subsections of outlines, titles, geographical names (this includes ALL proper nouns), historical events, time abbreviations, school subjects and class names |
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