| A | B |
|---|
| noun | names a person, place, or thing |
| pronoun | take the place of a noun |
| adjective | modifier, usually describes a noun |
| adverb | modifier; usually modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb |
| action verb | the "engine" of the sentence, drives it; identifies the subject's action |
| linking verb | connects the subject and predicate; is an = |
| preposition | anywhere a cat can go |
| conjunction | connects subjects, concepts, or ideas |
| interjection | word that is inserted with no responsibility to any other word in the sentence |
| subject | what the sentence is about |
| predicate | evrything in a sentence other than the subject |
| direct object | answers the question "What?" or "Whom?" with the verb |
| indirect object | to what or to whom the action of a verb and its direct object is done |
| predicate nominative | a noun in the predicate that is the same as (= to)the subject |
| predicate adjective | an adjective in the predicate that modifies the subject |
| infinitive | verbal: to w/verb, serves as another part of speech but performs the function of the verb within its own phrase |
| gerund | verbal: often ending in ing, serves as another part of speech but also as a verb within its own phrase |
| participle | verbal: often ends in ing or ed, serves the function of a modifier but also as a verb within its own phrase |
| noun clause | group of words with a subject and a verb that performs the function of one noun in the sentence as a whole |
| GOING TO SCHOOL is what I love to do. | SUBJECT |
| GOING TO SCHOOL is what I love to do. | GERUND PHRASE |
| THAT I HAVE TO GO TO SCHOOL DAILY is driving me insane. | SUBJECT |
| THAT I HAVE TO GO TO SCHOOL DAILY is driving me insane. | NOUN CLAUSE |
| Everybody in English 11loves TO READ. | DIRECT OBJECT |
| Everybody in English 11 loves TO READ. | INFINITIVE |
| GOING TO SCHOOL, I was hit by another driver. | PARTICIPIAL PHRASE |
| Throw the ball to SCOOBY. | OBJECT OF THE PREPOSITION |
| object of a preposition | noun connected by a preposition to the rest of the sentence |
| Throw SCOOBY the ball. | INDIRECT OBJECT |
| School is COOL. | PREDICATE ADJECTIVE |
