0.1 English Terms Must Knows

Understanding Terms is a key stepping stone to learning S

Prefix?

Shown at the start of a word

EX: Anti-, De-, Un-, Dis-, etc.

Suffix?

Shown at the end of a word.

EX: -able, -ly, -ful, -ism, etc.

Verb?

Action word, State of being, or Occurrence.

EX: Run, Dance, Slide, Jump, Think, Do, Go, Stand, etc

Noun?

A Person, Place, Thing, or Idea (Thought, Plan, or Suggestion, something that is conceived in the mind)

EX: Teacher, Paris, Flower

Adjective?

A Word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun. Tells how it looks, smells, sounds, feels, or tastes; and how many.

EX: ‘I like old houses.” “The boy is tall and skinny.” “Jane is Smarter than her brother’

Preposition?

A word that shows the relationship of a Noun/Pronoun to another word.

EX: In, At, On, Of, To

An Infinitive?

Any Verb that has ‘to’ before it is an Infinitive. 

Ex: 'to love, to eat, to run, to believe, to follow, to laugh, to stare, to wonder’

A Gerund?

A Verb that ends in -ing. (Secretly a Noun!) 

EX: Flying an airplane can be fun; One of her responsibilities is attending every event; They arrived in France after Traveling all night

What is an Adverb?

A word that modifies a Verb, Adjective, or another Adverb. (Adjectives can only modify Nouns and Pronouns)- Usually describe an action in terms of how, when, where and to what extent it occurred.
EX: Loudly, Gently, Happily

What are Verb Tenses

Tense Communicates an event's location in time.

3 Main tenses: Past, Present, Future

These Tenses can be Simple, Perfect Continuous/Progressive and Perfect Continuous. 

Perfect formed with the verb: To Have

Continuous formed with the verb: To Be

What is a Participle?

A Verb (Action Word) that can be used as an Adjective (descriptor) or to form certain verb tenses.; Almost always end in -ing or -ed

EX: The Panda was happy to see the rising sun; Rise = Verb, Rising describes what the sun is doing

What is Declension?

Refers to the changes that a Noun, Pronoun, Adjective, takes to indicate its role in a sentence. When you Decline a noun, you add the proper Case Ending to it. Declension clarifies: Case and Number (Every Noun has both)

A Nouns case tells what it's doing in a sentence. 

A Nouns number tells how many. 

1. Cow -> Cows

*Verbs are not declined, they are conjugated

What is Conjugation?

Refers to how a Verb changes to show a different person, tense, number, or mood.

What are Infinitives?

The basic form of a verb; These can be used as a noun, adjective, or adverb.

EX: We came to see, let him see

What is Infinitive Article? What is Definite Article?

Infinitive: A or An; Definite Article: The