Unit 10 Grammar

word that names a person, place, thing, or an idea

Noun

shows possetion, owernship, or the general relasionship

Possesive Noun

object that occupies space or that can be recognized by any of the senses

Concrete Noun

names an idea, a quality, or a characteristic

Abstract Noun

name of a particular person, place, thing, or idea

Proper Noun

general not particular name of a person, place, thing, or idea

Common Noun

sometimes considered singular and sometimes plural (rule: singular is a group; plural is an individual member of a group

Collective Noun

takes place of a noun, a group of words acting as a noun, or a pronoun

Pronoun

refers to a specific person or thing by indicating the person speaking

Personal Pronoun

takes the place of the possesive form of a noun

Possesive Pronoun

refers or reflects back, to a noun or pronoun earlier in the sentance

Reflexive Prounoun

adds emphasis to another noun or pronoun in the same sentance

Intensive Pronoun

points out specific nouns

Demonstrative Pronoun

used to form questions

Interrogative Pronoun

used to begin a special subject-verb word group called a subordinate clause

Relative Pronoun

refers to persons, places, or things in a more general way than a noun does

Indefinate Pronoun

words that expresses action or a state of being and is necessary to make a statement

Verb

tells what someone or something does

Action Verb

action verb that is followed by a word or words that answers the question "what?" or "whom?"

Transitive Verb

an action verb that is not followed by a word that answers the question "what?" or "whom?"

Intransitive Verb

links or joins the subject of a sentence (often a noun or pronoun) with a word or expression that identifies or describes the subject

Linking Verb

consists of a main verb and all its auxillary, or helping, verbs

Verb Phrase

a word that modifies a noun or pronoun by limiting its meaning; it tells what kind, which one, how many, or how much

Adjective

the adjectives "a", "an", and "the"; "a" and "an" are called indefinite articles; they can refer to any one of a kind of person, place, or thing; "a" is used before consonant sounds and "an" is used before vowel sounds; "the" is called a definite article; it refers to a specific person, place, or thing

Ariticle

formed from a proper noun and begins with a capital letter

Proper Adjective

a word that modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb by making its meaning more specific

Adverb

used to clarify the relationship between clauses of equal weight in a sentence

Conjunctive Adverb

a word that shows the relashionship of a noun or pronoun to some other word in a sentence

Preposition

phrases that end with a noun or a pronoun

Object of the Preposition

made up of more than one word

Compound Preposition

a word that joins single words or groups of words

Conjunctions

joins words or groups of words that have equal gramatical weight in a sentence

Coordinating Conjunction

work in pairs to join words and groups of words of equal weight in a sentence

Correlative Conjuntion

joins two clauses or ideas in such a way as to make one grammatically dependent upon the other

Subordinating Conjuntion

a word or phrase that expresses emotion or exclamation; an interjection has no grammatical connection to other words

Interjection