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| 1042858273 | Noun | a person place or thing. ex. DANIEL is sledding. | 0 | |
| 1042858274 | Verb | tells what the subject does Ex: The dog RAN to his master. | 1 | |
| 1042858275 | Pronoun | takes the place of a noun. Ex: YOU will walk to the barn with HIM. | 2 | |
| 1042858276 | Adverb | Adds to/modifies a verb. Can also describe another adverb. answer where, when, why, how & may end in -ly Ex. Joshua swam QUICKLY. | 3 | |
| 1042858277 | Adjective | Adds to/modifies a noun. Can also describe an adjective. Ex. Abbey is SMART and STRONG. | 4 | |
| 1042858278 | Preposition | shows relationship between a verb, adj, or adv. Ex: Vanessa just walked PAST Breanna. | 5 | |
| 1042858279 | Conjunction | used to connect a set of words with another set of words. Ex. I will go to the library, BUT my mom will go to the market. | 6 | |
| 1042858280 | Interjection | used to express sudden or strong feeling. ex. WOW! That 11 year old girl raises chickens. | 7 | |
| 1042858281 | antecedent | the noun that a pronoun refers back to Because JACK is happy, he always has a smile on his face. | 8 | |
| 1042858282 | clause | contains BOTH a subject and a verb | 9 | |
| 1042858283 | phrase | not a complete sentence because NO VERB | 10 | |
| 1042858284 | list of common prepositions | above, behind, for, since, about, below, from, to, across, beneath, in, toward, after, beside, inside, through, up, by, near, except, on, off, with, before, except | 11 | |
| 1042858285 | conjunctions | and, but, or, so, because | 12 | |
| 1042858286 | simple sentence | A sentence with one independent clause Mrs.Applehausenbooty waited for the train. | 13 | |
| 1042858287 | compound sentence | sentence with two or more independent clauses Mr. Fricknickfurter waited for the train, but the train was late. | 14 | |
| 1042858288 | agreement | The correspondence of a verb with its subject in person and number, and of a pronoun with its antecedent in person, number, and gender. | 15 | |
| 1042899761 | appositive | A noun, noun phrase, or series of nouns used to identify or rename another noun, noun phrase, or pronoun. Ex: Saint Valentine, the patron saint of lovers, was never married In this sentence, "the patron saint of lovers" is an appositive that identifies the subject, "Saint Valentine." | 16 | |
| 1045449047 | Article | A type of determiner that precedes a noun: a, an, or the. | 17 | |
| 1045457768 | Auxiliary | A verb (such as have, do, or will) that determines the mood or tense of another verb in a verb phrase. Also known as a helping verb. Contrast with lexical verb. | 18 | |
| 1045467006 | comparative | The form of an adjective or adverb involving a comparison of more or less, greater or lesser. Comparatives in English are either marked by the suffix -er or preceded by the word more or less. | 19 | |
| 1045493694 | conditional | The conditionals are used to talk about possible or imaginary situations. | 20 | |
| 1045656496 | contraction | A shortened form of a word or group of words, with the missing letters usually marked by an apostrophe. Contractions are commonly used in speech and in colloquial forms of writing. Words containing two contractional clitics marked with apostrophes (such as shouldn't've) are called double contractions. Double contractions are rarely seen in contemporary writing. | 21 | |
| 1045665236 | count noun | A noun that refers to an object or idea that can form a plural or occur in a noun phrase with an indefinite article or with numerals. Contrast with mass noun (or noncount noun). Most common nouns in English are countable--that is, they have both singular and plural forms. Many nouns have both countable and non-countable uses, such as the countable "dozen eggs" and the non-countable "egg on his face." | 22 | |
| 1045665237 | noncount noun | A noun (such as advice, bread, rice, knowledge, luck, peace, spaghetti, and work) that names things that in English cannot usually be counted. A mass noun (also known as a noncount noun) is generally used only in the singular. Many abstract nouns are uncountable, but not all uncountable nouns are abstract. Contrast with count noun. | 23 | |
| 1045671400 | demonstrative | A determiner that points to a particular noun or to the noun it replaces. There are four demonstratives in English: the "near" demonstratives this and these, and the "far" demonstratives that and those. A demonstrative pronoun distinguishes its antecedent from similar things. When a demonstrative precedes a noun, it is sometimes called a demonstrative adjective. | 24 | |
| 1045715631 | determiner | A word (the, a, an, this, that, each, every, some, many) or a group of words that introduces a noun. Determiners include articles, demonstratives, quantifiers, and possessive determiners. Determiners are functional elements of structure and not formal word classes. | 25 | |
| 1045715632 | direct object | A noun or pronoun in a sentence that receives the action of a transitive verb. Ex: "But if thought corrupts |language|, language can also corrupt |thought|." (George Orwell) | 26 | |
| 1045715633 | Future Tense/Aspect | A verb tense or form indicating action that has not yet begun. There is no separate inflection (or ending) for the future in English. The simple future is usually expressed by placing the auxiliary will or shall in front of the base form of a verb ("I will leave tonight"). Other ways to express the future include (but are not limited to) the use of: a present form of be plus going to: "We are going to leave." the present progressive: "They are leaving tomorrow." the simple present: "The children leave on Wednesday." | 27 | |
| 1045715634 | gerund | A traditional grammatical term for a verbal that ends in -ing and functions as a noun. Adjective: gerundial. A gerund (also known as an -ing form) with its objects, complements, and modifiers is called a gerund phrase, or simply a noun phrase. Like nouns, gerunds and gerund phrases can function as subjects, objects, and complements. However, unlike nouns, gerunds do not take inflections; in other words, they do not have distinct plural forms. | 28 | |
| 1045732229 | infinitive | A verbal--often preceded by the particle to--that can function as a noun, an adjective, or an adverb. Adjective: infinitival. "We do not write be understood. We write in order to understand." - C.S. Lewis C.S. Lewis's observation contains two infinitive phrases--one passive ("to be understood") and the other active ("to understand"). | 29 | |
| 1046316386 | intransitive verb | not taking a direct object. e.g., look in look at the sky | 30 | |
| 1046316387 | transitive verb | able to take a direct object (expressed or implied) e.g., saw in "He saw the donkey" | 31 | |
| 1046316388 | irregular noun | man/men, child/children, corps/corps, foot/feet, | 32 | |
| 1048649591 | tense | The time of a verb's action or state of being, such as present or past. | 33 | |
| 1048649592 | past tense | A verb tense (the second principal part of a verb) indicating action that occurred in the past and which does not extend into the present. The simple past tense of regular verbs is marked by the ending -d, -ed, or -t. Irregular verbs have a variety of endings. The simple past is not accompanied by helping verbs. | 34 | |
| 1048649593 | present perfect | An aspect of the verb expressing an action that began in the past and which has recently been completed or continues into the present. Also known as the present perfective. The present perfect is formed by combining has or have with a past participle (usually a verb ending in -d, -ed, or -n). | 35 | |
| 1048649594 | present perfect progressive/continuous | A verb construction (made up of has/have + been + a present participle) that emphasizes the ongoing nature of an action that began in the past and continues in the present. "I have been waiting. I have been searching. I am a man under the moon, walking the streets of earth until dawn. There's got to be someone for me." (Henry Rollins, Solipsist, 1998) | 36 | |
| 1048649595 | past perfect | An aspect of the verb that designates an action which has been completed before another past action. Also known as the past perfective or the pluperfect. Formed with the auxiliary |had| and the past participle of a verb, the past perfect indicates a time further back in the past than the present perfect or the simple past tense. | 37 | |
| 1048649596 | past perfect progressive/continuous | A verb construction (made up of |had been| + a present participle) that points to an activity or situation that was ongoing in the past. | 38 | |
| 1048649597 | phrasal verb | A complex verb made up of a verb (usually one of action or movement) and a prepositional adverb--also known as an adverbial particle (of direction or location). There are hundreds of phrasal verbs in English, many of them (such as tear off, run out [of], and pull through) | 39 | |
| 1048649598 | possessive adjective/determiner | A determiner used in front of a noun to express possession or belonging (as in "my phone"). The possessive determiners in English are my, your, his, her, its, our, and their. | 40 | |
| 1049095656 | Prepositions | Prepositions convey the following relationships: agency (by); comparison (like, as . . . as); direction (to, toward, through); place (at, by, on); possession (of); purpose (for); source (from, out of); and time (at, before, on). | 41 | |
| 1049095657 | reflexive pronoun | A pronoun ending in -self or -selves that is used as an object to refer to a previously named noun or pronoun in a sentence. Reflexive pronouns usually follow verbs or prepositions. | 42 | |
| 1049095658 | formulaic subjunctive | A set expression in the subjunctive mood (such as "God |save| the Queen!" or "God |bless| America), usually found in an independent clause. The formulaic subjunctive generally conveys the meaning of let or may. It is distinctive only in the third-person singular of the present tense. (In other words, the -s ending is omitted.) | 43 | |
| 1049095659 | mandative subjunctive | The use of the subjunctive mood in a subordinate clause that follows an expression of command, demand, or recommendation. It is distinctive only in the third-person singular of the present tense. (In other words, the -s ending is omitted.) Ex: I recommend that your son |talk| to the counselor. | 44 | |
| 1049095660 | past subjunctive | The use of were in a clause that expresses an unreal or hypothetical condition in present, past, or future time (for example, "If I were you . . ."). | 45 | |
| 1049095661 | superlative | The form of an adjective or adverb that indicates the most or the least of something. Superlatives are either marked by the suffix -est or preceded by the word most or least. "The sweetest joy, the wildest woe, is love" -Philip James Bailey, Festus | 46 |
