| A | B |
| noun | a person, place, thing, or idea |
| pronoun | a word that takes the place of a noun |
| adjective | word that modifies a noun or pronoun |
| adverb | a word that modifies a verb, adjective, or adverb |
| interjection | a word that is used to express emotion; set apart from the sentence by a comma or an exclamation point |
| conjunction | a word used to join words or groups of words |
| action verb | a word that expresses physical or mental action |
| linking verb | a word that helps to make a statement; connects subject to the predicat |
| helping verb | a word that helps express action or make a statement |
| preposition | word that shows the relationship between a noun or pronoun and some other word in the sentence |
| article | a,an, the; always act as adjectives |
| prepositional phrase | a group of words showing relationship; begins with a preposition and ends with the noun or pronoun most closely following (object of the preposition) |