English Grammar Ch 1 -2 10th Grade

Montgomery Bell Academy, Definitions

Pronoun

A word that takes the place of a noun or another pronoun

Appositive/ NAPP

a noun that renames, identifies, or explains the noun it follows.

Definite Article

is used before a noun to indicate that the identity of the noun is known to the reader.

Indefinite Article

is used before a noun that is general or when its identity is not known

Adverbial Noun

a noun which answers the questions of an adverb.

Collective Noun

nouns that use the same form for singular or plural.

Abstract Noun

name a quality, a condition, or an idea

Coordinating Conjunctions

for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so

Correlative Conjunctions

used in pairs; neither nor, either or

Expletive

a word that fills the normal place of another part of speech; there, here

Predicate Nominative

follows a linking verb and renames or describes the subject

Predicate Adjective

also follows a linking verb and renames or describes the subject.

Predicate Pronoun

a pronoun that follows a linking verb and identifies the subject of a verb in a sentence

participle, participle phrase

_____ that is a verbal acts as an adjective. A participle and its modifiers and complements form a ______.

Gerund, Gerund Phrase

a _____ is formed from the present participle of the verb, it always ends in –ing; verb functioning as a noun A ______ includes the gerund along with its complements and modifiers

Possessive Gerund

subject of Gerund should always be in possessive form

Infinitive, Infinitive Phrase

The first principal part of the verb plus to forms the ______. An ______ together with its modifiers and complements forms an ________. ________ may be used as nouns, adjectives, or adverbs.

Subject of the Infinitive

Infinitives with subject most commonly occur with verbs of wishing, commanding, advising, and the like and after some verbs of believing, declaring, and perceiving. A pronoun used as the subject of an infinitive will be in the objective case.