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| Subject | part of a sentence about which something is begin said |
| Simple Subject | main word in the complete subject |
| Predicate | part of the sentence that says something about the subject |
| When he subject comes in the middle of a sentence.. | a part of the predicate usually stands before it. |
| When the subject comes at the end of the sentence... | the whole predicate stands before it. |
| Simple predicate or verb | main word or group of words in the complete predicate |
| Simple predicate is always a ... | verb |
| A verb that consists of more than one word is called... | a verb phrase |
| Not or never are never part... | of a verb or a verb phrase. |
| Compound subject | consists of two or more connected subjects that have the same verb |
| Imperative subject | sentemce that gives a command or makes a request |
| Interrogrative sentence | asks a question |
| Exclamatory sentencw | expresses strong feeling |
| Noun | word that names a person, place, thing or idea |
| Pronoun | word used in place or one or more than one noun. |
| Personal Pronous | I, me, my mine, you, your, yours, he, hime, his, she her, hers it, its, we, us, our , ours, they, them, their, theirs |
| Adjective | word that modifies a noun or a pronoun |
| Verb | word that express actionor otherwise helps to make a statement |
| Action verb | expresses mental or physical actin. |
| Linking verb | does not show action but connects the subject with a word in the predicate |
| Helping verb | main verb to express action or make a statement |
| Adverb | word that modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb |
| Preposition | word that shows the relationship between a noun or pronoun and some other word in the sentence |
| Interjection | exclamatory word that expresses strong emotion; has no grammatical relationship to the rest of sentence |
| Indirect object | answers the question "to what?" "to whom?" "for what?" "for whom?" after an action verb; comes before the direct objectwhat |
| Linking verbs do... | not have indirect object, are never in prepositional phrases and may be compound |
| Predicate nominative and predicate adjective | are called subject complements, never action verbs; they refer to the subject and follow linking verbs |
| Predicate nominative | a noun or pronoun that explains or identifies the subject of the sentence; follows linking verb; never in prepositional phrases |
| Predicate adjective | an adjective that modifies the subject and follows linking verb i.e. The crowd became restless. became, restless |
| Phrase | group of related words that is used as a single part of speech; does not contain both subject and verb |
| Prepositional phrase | begins with a preposition and ends with a noun or pronoun; may be used as an adjective or adverb |
| Adjective phrase | modifies a noun or a pronoun |
| Verbal | word that is formed from a verb but is used as a noun, adjective or adverb |
| Participle | verb form that can be used as adjective |
| Participial phrase | group or related words that contains a participle and acts as an adjective |
| Infinitive | word that can be used as a noun, adjective, or adverb; word "to" usually comes before an infinitive i.e. To jog a mile, the place to meet |
| To plus a noun or pronoun | is a prepositional phrase, not an infinitive i.e. to the movies |
| Infinitive phrase | group of related words that contains an infinitive, used as adjective, adverb or noun |
| Participles | a verb form that can be used as adjective, two kinds present "ing" and past "-ed,-d,-t,-n" |
| Participle may be modified by | a adverb or by a pre positional phrase; may also have complement |
