Grammar: Pronouns, Verbs, Prepositions, Adverbs, Conjunctions, Interjections, Nouns

Flashcards covering various types of pronouns, verbs, prepositions, adverbs, conjunctions, interjections, and nouns as introduced in the grammar lesson.

Reflexive Pronoun

A pronoun that reflects action back upon the subject of its sentence or clause, e.g., myself.

Intensive Pronoun

A pronoun that emphasizes a noun or pronoun in the same sentence, e.g., herself.

Demonstrative Pronoun

A pronoun that points out specific persons, places, things, or ideas, e.g., this, those.

Indefinite Pronoun

A pronoun that refers to unidentified persons, places, things, or ideas, e.g., each, most.

Interrogative Pronoun

A pronoun that introduces a question, e.g., who, what.

Relative Pronoun

A pronoun that introduces a subordinate clause, e.g., who, that.

Action Verb

A verb that expresses a physical or mental action.

Transitive Verb

An action verb that appears with a direct object.

Intransitive Verb

An action verb that does not have a direct object.

Linking Verb

A verb that links the subject of a sentence to a word in the predicate.

Auxiliary Verb

A helping verb combined with verbs to form verb phrases, e.g., is, has.

Preposition

A word that shows the relationship between a noun or pronoun and another word in the sentence.

Compound Preposition

A preposition formed from more than one word, e.g., according to.

Prepositional Phrase

Consists of a preposition, its object, and any modifiers of the object.

Adverb

A word that modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb.

Coordinating Conjunction

A conjunction that connects words or groups of words that have equal importance.

Correlative Conjunction

Pairs of conjunctions that join words or groups of words, e.g., either… or.

Subordinating Conjunction

A conjunction that introduces subordinate clauses and joins them to independent clauses.

Interjection

A word or phrase that expresses an emotion or strong feeling.

Noun

A word that represents a person, place, thing, or idea.