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| Part of Speech | words with the same usage |
| Common Noun | general name of any person, place or thing. |
| Proper Noun | the name of a particular person, place, or thing. |
| Singular Noun | names one person, place, or thing. |
| Plural Noun | names more than one person, place, or thing. |
| Pronouns | words used in place of nouns. |
| Personal Pronoun | refer to people and are used in place of their names. |
| Number | can be singular or plural |
| Gender | can be masculine or feminine |
| Person | identifies the speakers reference to self (1st), another (2nd) or others (3rd) |
| Nominative Pronouns | used as subjects in sentences |
| Objective Pronouns | used as objects in sentences; commonly found after verbs or after prepositions |
| Possessive Pronouns | show ownership |
| Relative Pronouns | relate one part of a sentence to another part. |
| Reflexive Pronouns | reflects an action back to a noun or pronoun used earlie in the sentence. |
| Antecedent | the word th pronoun replaces. |
| Verbs | names an action or state of being. |
| Action Verbs | shows an action that the subject does. |
| Linking Verbs | links a noun with another noun or pronoun |
| Helping Verbs | used with other verbs |
| Principal Parts | three forms of verbs: present, past and past participle (uses helping verbs) |
| Regular Verb | one whose past tense and past participle are both formed by adding -ed or-d to the present tense. |
| Irregular Verb | one whose principal parts do not follow the pattern of a regular verb (i.e. see/saw) |
| Tense | shows the time of the action it describes |
| Simple Tenses | present, past, and future |
| Present Tense | an action that happens now or on a regular basis. |
| Past Tense | an action that occurred in the past. |
| Future Tense | an action that has not yet happened but will occur in the future, it is formed by using a helping verb with the present form. |
| Perfect Tense | action that is completed by a certain time. |
| Present Perfect Tense | action began in the past and continues in the present. |
| Past Perfect Tense | action that was completed before another action in the past. |
| Future Perfect Tense | action that will be completed before an action in the future. |
| Plural Form of A Verb | does not end in -s; used with a plural subject. |
| Singular Form of a Verb | base form of a verb plus -s or -es; used with the singular form of a verb with a third-person singular subject. |
| Compound Subject | has two or more parts |
| Adjectives | words that describe nouns and pronouns |
| Comparative Form of Adjectives | used to compare two things. |
| Superlative Form of Adjectives | used to compare three or more things. |
| Adverbs | used to add meaning to verbs; they often tell when, how, where, or to what degree. |
| Double Negative | the use of two negative words in the same clause or sentence. |
