| A | B |
| simple subject | It is the key word or words in the complete subject. It is usually a noun or a pronoun. |
| simple predicate | It is the key word or words in the complete predicate. It is always a verb. |
| conjunction | they are used to connect words or groups of words. |
| interjection | a word or group of words that expresses feeling. |
| noun | A word that names a person, a place, a thing, or an idea is called a noun. |
| concrete noun | A noun that names something that can be seen, smelled, heard, tasted, or touched is called a concrete noun. |
| abstract noun | An abstract noun names an idea, a quality, or a feeling. |
| common noun | refers to any person, place, thing or idea. |
| proper noun | It identifies a particular person, place, thing, or idea and is always capitalized. |
| collective noun | names persons, animals, or things that act together as a group. |
| compound noun | is made up of two or more words acting as a single noun. |
| verb | expresses physical action, mental action, or a state of being. |
| linking verb | It expresses a state of being. It links the subject with a noun or an adjective in the predicate that names or describes the subject. |
| helping verb | In a verb phrase the main verb expres action or the state of being. The other verbs are these. |
| transitive verb | expresses acton that is received by a noun or pronoun in the predicate called the direct object. |
| intransitive verb | A verb that does not send its action to a word in the predicate. |
| direct object | always a noun or pronoun that answers the question whom? or what? after the verb. |
| indirect object | answers the questions tor or for whom? and to or for what? It always comes before the direct object. |
| adjective | A word that modifies a noun or a pronoun. It tells which, what kind, or how many. |
| adverbs | Words that modify verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs. It can tell how, when, where, or to what extent about the word it modifies. |
| personal pronouns | They are classified by person number, and gender. They take the place of a noun. |
| interrogative pronouns | When you ask a question you often begin it with this type of pronoun. |
| demonstrative pronouns | these pronouns are used to point out particular persons and things. |
| indefinite pronouns | These pronouns do not refer to definite persons or things. |
| reflexive pronoun | a pronoun that refers to the subject. |
| intensive pronoun | emphasizes a noun or another pronoun. |
| prepositional phrase | it begins with a preposition, ends with the object of the preposition. |
| preposition | a word that shows the relationship between a noun or a pronoun and anoter word in a sentence. |