| A | B |
| subject | who or what the sentence is about |
| predicate | what the subject of a sentence does or is |
| verb | action word or state-of-being word: simple predicate |
| noun | names a person, place, thing, or idea |
| common noun | names any person, place, thing, or idea |
| proper noun | names a specific person, place, thing, or idea and is always capitalized |
| preposition | the word that begins a prepositional phrase |
| prepositional phrase | a group of words that start with a preposition and end with a noun or pronoun |
| phrase | a group of words that function in a sentence as a single part of speech |