| A | B |
| noun | name of a person, place, or thing |
| pronoun | a word that takes the place of a noun |
| adjective | a word that modifies a noun or pronoun |
| verb | a word that shows action, being, or links a subject to its subject complement |
| conjuction | a word that joins two words or two groups of words |
| adverb | a word that modifies a verb, adjective, or adverb |
| definitive article | the |
| interjection | shows emotion but has no grammatical function |
| predicate adjective | a subject complement that is an adjective |
| subject | the noun or subject pronoun that the sentence is about |
| subject pronouns | I, you, he, she, it, we, you, they |
| direct object | the noun or object pronoun that receives the action of the action verb |
| object pronouns | me, you, him, them, her, it , us |
| fragment | an incomplete thought |
| phrase | a group of words that does not have a subject and its predicate |
| prepositional phrase | a phrase beginning with a preposition used as a modifier |
| subordinating conjuctions | if, as, since, when, because |
| gerund | an -ing verb form used as a noun |
| participle | a verb form of various endings used as an adjective |
| 3 degrees of adjectives | positive, comparitive, superlative |
| clause | a group of words that has a subject and its predicate |
| independent clause | a clause that is a complete thought |
| dependent clause | a clause that is not a complete thought |
| simple sentence | a sentence with one independent clause |
| compound sentence | a sentence with two or more independent clauses |
| complex sentence | a sentence with an independent clause attached to a dependent clause |
| sentence purposes | declarative, imperative, interrogative, exclamatory |
| declarative | a sentence that makes a statement |
| imperative | a sentence that makes a command |
| exclamatory | a sentence that exclaims |
| interrogative | a sentence that asks a question |