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A comprehensive overview of the english language's parts of speech and their functions within a sentence. Learn about adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, interjections, nouns, prepositions, pronouns, verbs, clauses, phrases, and their roles in constructing grammatically correct sentences.
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ADJECTIVE: Describes a noun or pronoun; tells which one, what kind or how many.
ADVERB: Describes verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs; tells how, why, when, where, to what extent.
CONJUNCTION: A word that joins two or more structures; may be coordinating, subordinating, or correlative.
INTERJECTION: A word, usually at the beginning of a sentence, which is used to show emotion: one expressing strong emotion is followed by an exclamation point (!); mild emotion followed by a comma (,).
NOUN: Name of a person, place, or thing (tells who or what); may be concrete or abstract; common or proper, singular or plural.
PREPOSITION: A word that connects a noun or noun phrase (the object) to another word, phrase, or clause and conveys a relation between the elements.
PRONOUN: Takes the place of a person, place, or thing: can function any way a noun can function; may be nominative, objective, or possessive; may be singular or plural; may be personal (therefore, first, second or third person), demonstrative, intensive, interrogative, reflexive, relative, or indefinite.
VERB: Word that represents an action or a state of being; may be action, linking, or helping; may be past, present, or future tense; may be singular or plural; may have active or passive voice; may be indicative, imperative, or subjunctive mood.
CLAUSE: A group of words that contains a subject and complete predicate: may be independent (able to stand alone as a simple sentence) or dependent (unable to stand alone, not expressing a complete thought, acting as either a noun, adjective, or adverb).
CONJUNCTION: A word that joins two or more elements. (See PARTS OF SPEECH)
DIRECT OBJECT: the noun that receives the action of the verb.
INDIRECT OBJECT: The noun that names the person or thing for whom or to whom the action of the verb is directed; cannot be present without a direct object; will precede the direct object in the sentence.
MODIFIER: A descriptive word, usually an adjective or adverb or any phrase or clause functioning as an adjective or adverb.
OBJECT OF A VERBAL: A noun that receives the action of a verbal (infinitive, participle, or gerund).
PHRASE: A group of words that does not contain a subject and predicate and acts as one unit as a part of speech (noun phrase, verb phrase, prepositional phrase, verbal phrase).
PREDICATE: The main verb of a sentence (including helping verbs) plus its modifiers, objects, and/or complements.
PREDICATE ADJECTIVE: An adjective that follows a linking verb (state of being verb) and renames the subject of the sentence.
PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE: A group of words beginning with a preposition and ending with a noun (the object) and used as an adjective or an adverb.
SENTENCE: A group of words containing a subject and a predicate and conveying a complete thought or idea: may be simple (one independent clause), compound (two or more independent clauses), complex (one independent and one or more dependent
Mary cried all afternoon.
S V adverb