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| 6605181901 | Subject | part of the sentence or clause about which something is being said | 0 | |
| 6605181902 | Predicate | part of a sentence (or clause) which tells us what the subject does or is | 1 | |
| 6605181903 | Verb | A word that represents an action or a state of being | 2 | |
| 6605181904 | Object | the entity that is acted upon by the subject | 3 | |
| 6605181905 | Direct Object | a noun or pronoun that receives the action of a verb or shows the result of the action | 4 | |
| 6605181906 | Indirect Object | precedes the direct object and tells to whom or for whom the action of the verb is done and who is receiving the direct object - always a noun or pronoun that is not part of a prepositional phrase | 5 | |
| 6605181907 | Clause | unit of grammar that contains at least one predicate (verb) and a subject | 6 | |
| 6605181908 | Phrase | sequence of two or more words that make up a grammatical construction, usually lacking a finite verb and hence not a complete clause or sentence | 7 | |
| 6605181909 | Preposition | a word governing, and usually preceding, a noun or pronoun and expressing a relation to another word or element in the clause (of, around, by, under, over on, off, etc.) | 8 | |
| 6605181910 | Prepositional Phrase | a series of words made up of a preposition and its object | 9 | |
| 6605181911 | Article | a word (prefix or suffix) that is used alongside a noun to indicate the type of reference being made by the noun | 10 | |
| 6605181912 | Definite Article | 'The' is the one and only definite article in English | 11 | |
| 6605181913 | Indefinite Article | The word a or an introducing an unspecified noun or the name of a general category (a, an) | 12 | |
| 6605181914 | Pronoun | a word that takes the place of a noun (I, me, he, she, herself, you, it, that, they, each, few, many, who, whoever, whose, someone, everybody, etc.) | 13 | |
| 6605181915 | Antecedent | substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him"...John is the antecedent of him); broadly : a word or phrase replaced by a substitute. | 14 | |
| 6605181917 | Possessive Pronoun | it substitutes a noun phrase and can prevent its repetition. For example, in the phrase, "These glasses are mine, not yours", the words "mine" and "yours" are possessive pronouns | 15 | |
| 6605181918 | Demonstrative Pronoun | Pronouns that point to specific things: this, that, these, and those | 16 | |
| 6605181919 | Participle | a word formed from a verb (e.g., going, gone, being, been ) and used as an adjective (e.g., working woman, burned toast ) or a noun (e.g., good breeding ) | 17 | |
| 6605181920 | Gerund | A verb that acts as a noun. (e.g., swimming is fun, where "swimming" is the gerund" | 18 | |
| 6605181921 | Infinitive | a grammar term that refers to a basic verb form that often acts as a noun and is often preceded by the word "to." (e.g., to sing) | 19 |
