| 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 |