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Part of Speech Rev
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| subject | noun or pronoun, focus of sentence |
| predicate | action or linking verb, tells what sentence does or is |
| noun | person, place, thing or idea |
| pronoun | takes the place of a noun |
| action verb | is an action that is being performed |
| linking verb | connects subject with a predicate adjective or noun |
| Adjective | modifies or describes a noun or pronoun |
| adverb | modifies or describes a verb |
| prepositional phrase | a preposition and its object, acts as adverb or adjective |
| personal pronoun | have person, number, case, and gender: examples: I, me, you, he, they |
| indefinite pronoun | antecedent is not know: examples: anyone, something, nobody, everyone |
| antecedent | noun referred to and replaced by a pronoun |
| interrogative pronoun | used to ask questions, examples: who, whose, whom, which, what |
| transitive verb | action verb where they action has to be performed on something |
| direct object | receives the action of the verb EX: hit the BALL |
| intransitive verb | action verb that stands alone |
| conjunction | joins words, phrases, or sentences |
| FANBOY | coordinating conjunctions: For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So |
| correlating conjunctions | conjuctions that come in pairs: not only/but also, either/or, neither/no |
| subordinating conjunctions | make one sentence dependent on the other: examples: because, although, since whenever |