| A | B |
| noun | person, place, thing, idea |
| verb | show action or are linking (passive) |
| adjective | used to modify a noun or pronoun |
| adverb | used to modify a verb, adjective, or adverb |
| preposition | shows the relationship of a noun/pronoun to some other word in the sentence |
| conjunction | joins words or groups of words |
| pronoun | words used in place of a noun (she, he, it...) |
| proper nouns | are capitalized |
| adjectives answer these questions... | what kind? which one? how many? |
| articles | a, an, the |
| adverts answer these questions... | how? when? where? how much? |
| correlative conjunctions | used in pairs (either/or, neither/ nor, both/and) |
| coordinating conjunctions | join equal parts of a sentence (and, but...) |