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| proper noun | names a particular person,place, thing, or idea. |
| common noun | refers to a class of persons, places, things, or ideas. |
| compound noun | is a noun that consists of two or more words. |
| pronoun | a word that takes the place of a noun |
| antecedent | the noun or pronoun that a pronoun replaces |
| personal pronouns | are in the first person, the second person, and the third person and are used to show person, number, gender, and case. |
| action verb | describes the behavior or action of someone or something. |
| linking verb | is a verb that connects a noun or a pronoun with words that identify or describe the noun or the pronoun. |
| articles | adjectives such as a, an, and the. |
| indefinite articles | adjectives that do not point out a particular person, place, or thing (a or an). |
| definite articles | points out a particular person, place, thing, or idea. |
| proper adjective | ia a proper noun that modifies another noun or pronoun; it always begins with a capital letter. |
| prepositions | is a word that expresses a relation between a noun or a pronoun and another word in the sentence. |
| conjunction | a word that connects individual words or a group of words. |
| interjections | ia an exclamatory word that usually expresses an emotion. |
| sentence | a group of words that has atleast one subject and one predicate and that expresses a complete thought. |
| declarative sentence | a sentence that makes a statement. |
| simple subject | is the noun or the pronoun that tells whom or what the sentence is about. |
| simple predicate | is the verb or verb phrase that describes the action or states the condition of the subject. |
| compound subject | is a simple subject that consists of two or more nouns or pronouns. |
| compound predicate | is a simple predicate that consists of two or more verbs or verb phrases. |
| complete predicates | consists of the simple predicate along with its modifiers and the words that complete the meaning of the verb. |
| complement | is a word or a group of words completes the meaning of the predicate. |
| direct objects | is a noun or a pronoun that follows an anction verb and answers the question Whay? or Whom? |
| compound object | consists of two or more objects that complete the same predicate |
| indirect object | is a noun or a pronoun that comes before the direct object and names the person or thing to whom or for whom an action is done. |
| subject complement | is a word that comes after a linking verb and identifies or describes the subject of the sentence. |
| predicate nominative | ia a noun or a pronoun that follows a linking verb and identifies the subject of the sentence. |
| predicate adjective | is an adjective that follows a linking verb and modifies the subject of the sentence. |
| phrases | ia a group of related words used as a single part of speech. |
| prepositional phrase | consists of a preposition, its object, and any modifiers of that object. |
| adjectove phrases | prepositional phrases that function as an adjective when it modifies a noun or a pronoun. |
| adverb phrase | when a prepositional phrase functions as an adverb when it modifies a verb, and adjective, or an adverb. |
| participle | is a verbe that is used in a sentence as an adjective. |
| participial phrase | consist of a participle and any word that modify the participle or complete its meaning. |
| infinitive | consists of the first princilal part , or basic form, of the verb. |
| clause | a group of related words that contains both a subject and a predicate. |
| independent clause | a clause that can stand by itself in a sentence. |
| subordinate (dependent) clauses | a group of words that has a subject and a predicate but cannot stand alone in a sentence |
| adjective clause | when a subordinate clause functions as an adjective if it modifies a noun or a pronoun. |
| simple sentence | a sentence that contains one independent clause and no subordinate clauses. |
| compound sentence | is a sentence that contains two or more independent clauses that are joined. |
| complex sentence | is a sentence that consists of one independent clause and one or more subordinate clauses. |
| compound-complex sentence | ia a sentence that consists of two or more independent clauses and one or more subordinate clauses. |
| complete sentence | a group of words that has at least one complete subject and one complete predicate and that express a complete thought. |
| sentence fragment | ia a word group that lacks a subject or a predicate or does not express a complete thought. |
| run-on sentence | consists of two or more complete sentences that are written at though they were one sentence. |
| infininive | is thw verb in its most basic form, the form given in the dictionary as the entry word. |
| present participle | consists of the infinitive plus -ing. |
| regular verbs | verbs that form the past and the present participle by adding -d or -ed to the infinitive. |
| irregular verbs | verbs that donot form the past participle by adding -d of -ed to the infinitive. |
| tense | makees clear whether something is happening now, has happend in the past, or will happen in the future. |
