AP Literature - Grammar Terms Flashcards

6089338089	Subject	part of the sentence or clause about which something is being said	0
6089349092	Predicate	part of a sentence (or clause) which tells us what the subject does or is	1
6089355388	Verb	A word that represents an action or a state of being	2
6089357355	Object	the entity that is acted upon by the subject	3
6089366068	Direct Object	a noun or pronoun that receives the action of a verb or shows the result of the action	4
6089366069	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
6089368112	Clasue	unit of grammar that contains at least one predicate (verb) and a subject	6
6089368113	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
6089410209	Preposition	a word governing, and usually preceding, a noun or pronoun and expressing a relation to another word or element in the clause	8
6089412932	Prepositional Phrase	a series of words made up of a preposition and its object	9
6089412933	Article	a word (prefix or suffix) that is used alongside a noun to indicate the type of reference being made by the noun	10
6089415233	Definite Article	'The' is the one and only definite article in English	11
6089415234	Indefinite Article	The word a or an introducing an unspecified noun or the name of a general category	12
6089417321	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
6089462225	Antecedent	an expression (word, phrase, clause, sentence, etc.) that gives its meaning to a pro-form (pronoun, pro-verb, pro-adverb, etc.)	14
6089465553	Postcedent	Postcedents are the opposites of antecedents. postcedents appear behind or after the nouns or pronouns which are used to refer to them. In other words, they succeed the referring word.	15
6089483991	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	16
6089488963	Demonstrative Pronoun	Pronouns that point to specific things: this, that, these, and those	17
6089488964	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 )	18
6089488965	Gerund	A verb that acts as a noun. (e.g., swimming is fun, where "swimming" is the gerund"	19
6089491465	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)	20