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English Language
Nouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Noun | a word used to identify any of a class of people, places, or things. |
| Abstract Noun | a noun denoting an idea, quality, or state. |
| Proper Noun | a name used for an individual person, place, or organisation, spelled with an initial capital letter. |
| Collective Noun | a count noun that denotes a group of individuals. |
| Common Noun | a noun denoting a class of objects or a concept as opposed to a particular individual. |
| Concrete Noun | a noun denoting a material object. |
| Verb | a word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence. |
| Dynamic Verb | a verb that shows continued or progressive action on the part of the subject. |
| Stative Verb | a verb used primarily to describe a state or situation. |
| Auxiliary Verb | a verb used in forming the tenses, moods, and voices of other verbs. |
| Adjective | a word naming an attribute of a noun. |
| Descriptive | the type of adjectives that are used to express the size, colour, or shape of a person, a thing, an animal, or a place. |
| Evaluative | forming or giving an opinion of the amount, value or quality of something after thinking about it carefully. |
| Comparative adjective | an adjective indicating a greater degree of the quality that the adjective describes. |
| Superlative adjective | an adjective which takes the comparison of nouns to the highest degree. |
| Adverb | a word or phrase that modifies the meaning of an adjective, verb, or other adverb. |
| Adverb of Manner | the way or how something is done. |
| Adverb of Time | how long, or when a certain action has happened. |
| Adverb of Place | talks about the location where the action of the verb is being carried out. |
| Adverb of Degree | tell us about the intensity or degree of an action, an adjective or another adverb. |
| Exclamatory Sentence | a type of sentence that makes an exclamation. |
| Interrogative Sentence | a type of sentence that asks a question. |
| Imperative Sentence | a direct command. It can end in a full stop or an exclamation mark, depending on the forcefulness of the command. |
| Declarative Sentence | makes a statement or “declares” something: |
| Minor Sentence | a word, phrase, or clause functioning as a sentence, lacking the grammatical completeness and independence of a full sentence |
| Compound Sentence | a sentence with more than one subject or predicate. |
| Complex Sentence | a sentence containing a subordinate clause or clauses. |
| Simple Sentence | a sentence consisting of only one clause. |
| Main Clause | a clause that can form a complete sentence standing alone, having a subject and a predicate. |
| Subordinate Clause | a clause, typically introduced by a conjunction, that forms part of and is dependent on a main clause |
| Adverb of frequency | how often a certain action has happened. |
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