7th Grade English Language Arts: Parts of Speech, Subjects, and Predicates

Vocabulary practice flashcards covering parts of speech (nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, interjections) and sentence structure (subjects and predicates) for 7th grade English.

Noun

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

Common Noun

Names any general person, place, or thing (e.g., basketball, video, coin, woman, coach).

Proper Noun

Names a particular person, place, or thing, and always begins with a capital letter (e.g., Winston Churchill, Babe Ruth, Mount Rushmore, Chicago).

Collective Noun

A noun that names a group of people or things (e.g., jury, herd, flock, family, fleet).

Abstract Noun

A noun that names an intangible thing or idea (e.g., love, pride, faith, happiness).

Concrete Noun

A noun that names a tangible person, place, or thing (e.g., Mr. Smith, chair, house, Parker).

Pronoun

A word used in place of one or more nouns.

Personal Pronoun

A pronoun that refers to people and things, categorized into first person (I, me, we, us), second person (you), and third person (he, she, it, they).

Possessive Pronoun

A pronoun that refers to something that belongs to someone or something (e.g., mine, yours, his, hers, ours, its, theirs).

Reflexive Pronoun

A pronoun formed by adding -self or -selves to certain personal pronouns (e.g., myself, himself, herself, itself, ourselves, themselves, yourself, yourselves).

Interrogative Pronoun

A pronoun used to ask a question (e.g., which, who, whom, whose).

Demonstrative Pronoun

A pronoun used to point out a specific person or thing (e.g., this, that, these, those).

Indefinite Pronoun

A pronoun that often does not refer to a specific or definite person or thing and usually lacks a definite antecedent.

Adjective

A word that modifies a noun or a pronoun by answering: What kind?, Which one(s)?, How many?, or How much?.

Verb

A word that expresses a state of being or action.

Action Verb

A verb that tells what physical or mental action a subject is performing, has performed, or will perform (e.g., deliver, howled, skated, turn, help).

Linking Verb

A verb that connects the subject to a noun or an adjective in the predicate, including forms of 'to be' and words like appear, become, feel, grow, look, remain, smell, sound, stay, taste, and turn.

Helping Verb

A verb that assists the main verb in a sentence (e.g., am, is, are, was, were, be, been, being, has, had, have, do, does, did, may, might, must, can, could, shall, should, will, would).

Adverb

A word that modifies or describes verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs, usually answering the question How? and often ending in -ly.

Preposition

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

Conjunction

A word that connects words or groups of words.

Coordinating Conjunction

A single connecting word used to join words or groups of words.

FANBOYS

An acronym representing the seven coordinating conjunctions: for, and, nor, but, or, yet, and so.

Correlative Conjunctions

Pairs of connecting words used to join sentence elements (both/and, either/or, neither/nor, not only/but also, whether/or).

Subordinate Conjunction

A word that connects a dependent clause to an independent clause (e.g., after, although, as, when, while, until, before, because, if, since).

AAAWWUBBIS

An acronym used to remember common subordinate conjunctions: after, although, as, when, while, until, before, because, if, since.

Interjection

A word that expresses strong feeling or emotion, usually appearing at the beginning of a sentence followed by an exclamation point or a comma.

Subject

The person or thing in a sentence that performs the action, usually appearing near the beginning of the sentence.

Predicate

The part of a sentence that explains what the subject is doing, containing the main verb and any modifying words, phrases, or clauses.

Simple Subject

The single word (person's name, subject pronoun, or main noun) that represents the subject, ignoring all modifiers.

Simple Predicate

The main verb (action, linking, or helping) of the sentence or clause that states what the subject is doing, ignoring all modifiers.

Complete Subject

The simple subject along with all of its modifiers (such as articles, adjectives, and prepositional phrases).

Complete Predicate

The simple predicate along with all of its modifying words, phrases, and clauses.

Compound Subject

Multiple subjects within a single sentence that are joined by a conjunction and share a verb.

Compound Predicate

Multiple predicates within a single sentence that are joined by a conjunction and share a subject.