Vocabulary Term | Definition |
1st person pronouns | I, me, we, my, us, our, mine |
2nd person pronouns | you, your |
3rd person pronouns | they, it, he, she, him, her, his, theirs, their |
nominative case | used in the subject or PN |
objective case | used as DO, IO, OP |
relative pronouns | that, which, who, whom, whose; intro. adj. or noun dep. clauses |
demonstrative pronouns | this, that, these, those |
verb phrase | helping verb(s) + main verb (action or linking) |
DO questions | What? Who? |
IO questions | to / for whom? to / for what? |
Participle | verbal acting as an adjective; past (ends in -d / -ed; present ends in -ing) |
Gerund | verbal acting as a noun; ends in -ing |
Infinitive | to + verb; acts as a noun, adj., or adv. |
coordinating conjunctions | for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so |
correlative conjunctions | neither...nor, either...or, not only...but also, both...and |
subordinating conjunctions | intro. an adv. dep. clause; because, after, since, before, while, when (+more) |
simple sentence | 1 independent clause |
compound sentence | 2 or more independent clauses |
complex | 1 ind. clause + 1 or more dep. clauses |