ICCS English vocab. 7th

Terms	Definitions
sentence	a group of words that expresses a complete thought.
two parts of a sentence	subject and predicate.
verb	a word used to express an action, a condition, or a state of being.
common noun	a general name for a person, place, thing or idea.
possessive form of a noun	shows ownership or relationship.
object of a preposition	the noun or pronoun following the preposition.
pronoun	a word that is used in place of a noun or another pronoun.
personal pronoun	a pronoun such as we, I, he, them, and it.
direct object	a word or group of words that names the reciever of the action of an atction verb.
indirect object	a word or goup of words that tells to whom or what an action is performed.
linking verb	links its subject to a word in the predicate.
four basic parts of a verb	past, past participle, present, present participle.
adjective	a word that modifies, or describes, a noun or pronoun.
adverb	a word that modifies a verb, adjective, or another adverb.
conjunction	a word used to join words or group of words.
gerund	a verbal that ends in -ing and acts as a noun.
participle	a verb form that acts as an adjective.
infinitive	a verb form that usually begins with the word to and acts as a noun, adjective, or an adverb.

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