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Grammar Overview

Terms in this set (22)

The Eight Parts of Speech
Noun, Pronoun, Verb, Adjective, Adverb, Conjunction, Interjection, and Preposition
What is a Noun?
Person, Place, Object, or Idea; Answers Who or What
What is a Pronoun?
Takes the Place of a Noun
What is a Verb?
An Action--Something People Could Do OR Linking (Most Common Linking Verbs: am, is, are, was, were, seem)
What is an Adjective?
An Adjective modifies/describes a Noun or Pronoun; Answers the Questions: Which One? What Kind? How Many? How Much?
What is an Adverb?
An Adverb modifies/describes a Verb, Adjective, Other Adverb, or Verbal; Answers the Questions: When? Where? Why? How? To What Extent? Under What Condition?
What is a Conjunction?
A Conjunction Connects Two Parts (Coordinate and Correlative Join Equal Parts; Subordinate Joins a Secondary Idea to a Main Idea)
Difference between a Clause and a Phrase
A Clause Always Has a Subject and a Verb; A Phrase Could Have One or the Other or Neither
Difference between an Independent Clause and a Dependent Clause
An Independent Clause is a Complete Thought (a Sentence); A Dependent Clause is an Incomplete Thought (a Fragment) because the Dependent Clause Begins with a Relative Pronoun or Subordinate Conjunction
Three Types of Verbals
Gerund, Participle, and Infinitive
Gerund
Noun that Always Ends in "ING"
Participle
Adjective that Could End in "ing"; Present Participle Ends in "ing" while Past Participle Usually Ends in "ed" or "en"
Infinitive
To + a Verb Form; the Infinitive Can Function as a Noun, an Adverb, or an Adjective
What is a coordinating conjunction
Connects two equal parts
What are common coordinating conjunctions?
FANBOYS-for, and nor, but, or, yet, so
What are two types of clauses?
Dependent and Independent
What are the six relative pronouns?
Who, whose, whom, which, that , what
What are five common subordinating conjunctions?
Since, because, after, although, before as, as if, when, whenever
What is a verbal?
A word that looks and sounds like a verb but is not
What three parts of speech can an infinitive act as?
Noun, adverb, adjective
Name 5 common prepositions
For, with, up, down, below, around, to , than, as,
What three words are articles and will always act as an adjective?
A, an, the
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