Language Skills Review: Grammar Fundamentals

Vocabulary flashcards defining prepositions, nouns, verbs, adverbs, and conjunctions based on language skills lecture notes.

Preposition

A word that shows the relationship between a noun and other words in a sentence.

Preposition of Place

A preposition that indicates the location or position of something, such as in, on, under, beside, or between.

Preposition of Movement

A preposition that describes the direction or movement of something, such as across, along, or through.

Preposition of Time

A preposition that helps specify when something happens, such as at, in, on, during, or before.

Noun

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

Common Noun

A noun that refers to general, non-specific people, places, things, or ideas, and is not capitalized (e.g., dog, city, book, idea).

Proper Noun

A specific and unique noun that always starts with a capital letter because it refers to individual people, places, or things (e.g., John, Sydney, Hairy Porrer).

Concrete Noun

A tangible noun perceived through the 5 senses, including things you can see, touch, taste, smell, or hear (e.g., table, flower, music).

Abstract Noun

A noun representing intangible concepts that cannot be perceived through the 5 senses, like ideas or emotions (e.g., love, happiness).

Collective Noun

A noun that refers to groups of people or things as a single entity (e.g., team, family, herd).

Compound Noun

A noun formed by combining two or more words to create a single noun, which can be hyphenated (e.g., toothbrush, mother-in-law, keyboard).

Possessive Noun

A noun that indicates ownership or possession, formed by adding an apostrophe and an 's' to a singular noun (e.g., Mary's book).

Plural Noun

A noun indicating more than one of something, typically formed by adding 's' to a singular noun.

Verb

A word that shows an action, a state of being, or an event.

Action Verb

A verb that describes physical or mental actions (e.g., run, jump, think, laugh).

Linking Verb

A verb that connects the subject in a sentence to a word (e.g., is, am, seem, become).

Modal Verb

A verb that indicates likelihood (e.g., can, could, may, might, shall, should, will, would).

Adverb

A word that describes or gives more information about a verb, adjective, or another adverb.

Conjunction

A word that joins other words, phrases, or clauses together.

Coordinating Conjunction

A conjunction used to connect words, summarized by the acronym FANBOYS (For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So).

Subordinating Conjunction

A conjunction that introduces dependent clauses and joins them to independent clauses, creating complex sentences (e.g., because, although, if, since, while).