Parts of Speech
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31 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 noun | a word or word group that is used to name a person, place, thing, or idea |
| pronoun | a word that is used in place of one or more nouns or pronouns |
| adjective | a word that is used to modify a noun or pronoun |
| verb | a word that is used to express action or a state of being |
| adverb | modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb (tells where, when, how, to what extent) |
| preposition | a word that shows the relationship of a noun or pronoun to another word |
| conjunction | a word that joins words or word groups |
| interjection | a word that expresses emotion (has no grammatical relation to the rest of the sentence) (Oh! Ouch! Ah! Hey! Yikes!) |
| proper noun | names a particular person, place, thing, or idea and is capitalized |
| common noun | names any one of a group of persons, places, things, or ideas and is usually not capitalized |
| concrete noun | names a person, place, or thing that can be perceived by one or more of the five senses |
| abstract noun | names an idea, a feeling, a quality, or a characteristic (cannot by touched) |
| compound noun | consists of two or more words used together as a single noun (may be with a -, a single word, or two words) |
| collective noun | a word that names a group (class, herd, assortment) |
| personal pronoun | refers to the person speaking, being spoken to, or spoken about |
| reflexive pronoun | refers to the subject of a sentence and function as a compliment or object of a preposition |
| demonstrative pronoun | are used to point out a specific person, place, thing, or idea (this, that, these, those) |
| interrogative pronouns | ask/ introduces a question (who, whom, which, what, whose) |
| relative pronoun | introduce a subordinate clause (what, which, whom, whose) |
| indefinite pronoun | refers to one or more persons, places, things, or ideas that may or may not be specifically named (all, another, either, nobody, somebody, several) |
| demonstrative adjective | can function as either pronouns or adjectives/ they modify nouns and pronouns (this, that, these, those) |
| indefinite articles | (a, an) refer to any member of a general group |
| definite article | (the) refers to someone/ thing specific |
| transitive verb | a verb that expresses an action directed toward a person, place, or thing (from subject to object) |
| intransitive verb | a verb that expresses action or tells something about the subject without the action passing to an object (receiver) |
| action verb | express either physical or mental action |
| linking verb | connects subject to a word or word group that identifies/ describes the subject (they are intransitive) |
| verb phrase | consists of at least one main verb and one or more helping verbs (AKA auxilary verbs) |
| helping verb | helps main verb express action or a state of being |
| coordinating conjunction | joins words or word groups that are used in the same way (and, but, or, yet) |
| correlative conjunction | are pairs of conjunctions that join words or word groups that are used in the same way |
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