Grammar Review Flashcards

Flashcards for reviewing grammar concepts including nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections.

Noun

Names a person, place, thing, or idea.

Common Noun

A noun that names a general person, place, thing, or idea (e.g., man).

Proper Noun

A noun that names a specific person, place, thing, or idea and is capitalized (e.g., Mr. Smith).

Concrete Noun

A noun that can be perceived by the senses (e.g., dog).

Abstract Noun

A noun that represents an idea, quality, or state (e.g., hatred).

Collective Noun

A noun that represents a group of individuals (e.g., class, jury).

Compound Noun

A noun made up of two or more words (e.g., stairway, lieutenant governor).

Pronoun

Takes the place of one or more nouns.

Personal Pronoun

Refers to specific individuals or groups (e.g., I, you, he, she, it, we, they).

Reflexive Pronoun

Refers back to the subject of the clause (e.g., myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself, ourselves, yourselves, themselves).

Intensive Pronoun

Emphasizes a noun or pronoun (e.g., myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself, ourselves, yourselves, themselves).

Demonstrative Pronoun

Points out a specific person, place, thing, or idea (e.g., this, that, these, those).

Interrogative Pronoun

Introduces a question (e.g., who, whom, whose, which, what).

Relative Pronoun

Connects a clause or phrase to a noun or pronoun (e.g., that, which, who, whom, whose).

Indefinite Pronoun

Refers to a non-specific person, place, thing, or idea (e.g., all, another, any, anybody, anyone, anything, both, each, either, everyone, everything, few, many, more, most, much, neither, nobody, none, no one, nothing, one, other, several, some, somebody, something, such).

Adjective

A word that modifies a noun or pronoun.

Article

The most frequently used adjectives: a, an, and the.

Verb

A word that expresses action or a state of being.

Verb Phrase

Consists of a main verb and one or more helping verbs.

Helping Verbs

Verbs that help the main verb. Often forms of “to be” (am, is, are, was, were, be, being, been) and other verbs such as can, could, did, do, does, had, has, have, might, must, shall, should, will, would, may.

Action Verb

Expresses action (e.g., write, describe, remember, run, believe).

Transitive Verb

Expresses action directed toward a receiver and takes a direct object.

Intransitive Verb

Does not transfer action to a receiver and does not take a direct object.

Linking Verb

Connects the subject to a noun or adjective that describes or identifies the subject (e.g., am, is, are, was, were, seems, become, sounds).

Adverb

Modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb.

Preposition

A word that shows the relationship of a noun or pronoun to another word.

Prepositional Phrase

The preposition, its object, and any modifiers of that object.

Conjunction

A word that joins words or word groups.

Coordinating Conjunction

Connects words, phrases, or clauses of equal grammatical rank (e.g., for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so).

Correlative Conjunction

Pairs of conjunctions that connect words, phrases, or clauses of equal grammatical rank (e.g., both…and, either…or, whether…or, not only…but also, neither…nor).

Subordinating Conjunction

Starts a subordinate clause and joins it to an independent clause (e.g., after, although, as, as if, as long as, as soon as, because, before, even though, if, once, in order to, since, so that, than, though, unless, until, when, whenever, where, wherever, whether, while).

Interjection

A word that expresses emotion and has no grammatical relation to the rest of the sentence.