English Grammer Review

Grammer: (Review grammar activities on Schoology for basic parts of speech)

• Noun Types

  • Persons

  • Places

  • Things

  • Ideas

  • Animals

• Common Noun Examples

  • Scientists

  • Women

  • City

• Proper Noun Examples

  • Mary

  • John

  • Jamal

• Concrete Nouns

  • Something that can be perceived by one or more senses (Touch, Taste, ect.)

    • Poison

    • Silk

    • Fire

• Abstract Nouns

  • Something that is an idea, feeling, or quality

    • Freedom, kindness, Buddhism 

• Compound Nouns

  • A noun that comes in multiple words. They may come in multiple words, separate words, or hyphenated words

    • Firefighter

    • Prime minister

    • Sister-in-law

• Collective Noun

  • Names a group

    • Audience

• Pronoun

  • Used in place of a noun

    • He, she

• Reflexive pronoun

  • Refers to the subject of a sentence and functions as a complement or as an object of a preposition

    • Myself, Yourself, Ourselves

• Intensive pronoun

  • Intensive pronoun emphasizes the sentence and has no grammatical function

    • Albert himself wanted to enter the function

• Demonstrates pronoun

  • Points to or out of something

    • That is my mom

• Interrogative Pronoun

  • Introduces a question

    • Who, whom, which, what, whose

• Relative Pronoun

  • Introduces a subordinate clause

    • Isabel is my friend who is training for the Boston marathon

• Adjective

  • Modifies and describes a word

    • The gray shirt

• Demonstrative Adjective

  • Different from a demonstrative pronoun, it is when it is followed by the object

    • Demonstrative Adjective: I like that shirt

    • Demonstrative Pronoun: I like that

• Articles

  • A, an, and the

• Main Verb

  • The main word that is an action or state of being

    • Is leaving

• Helping Verb

  • The verb that supports the main verb

    • Is leaving

• Linking verb

  • A word that connects the subject to a word or group of words that describes the subject

    • Are, was, were, has been

• Transitive Verbs

  • A verb that expresses an action directed towards a person, place, or thing

    • DeMarcus mailed the package

• Intransitive Verbs

  • Expresses action or tells something about the subject without the action passing to a receiver or object

    • The children ate quickly

    • After she told her story, how we laughed

• Adverb

  • The adverb describes the verb

    • Please step up

    • May we go tomorrow

• Preposition

  • Shows the relationship between a noun or pronoun to another word

    • Near

    • Behind

    • From

• Conjunction

  • Joins a group of words and another group of words together

• Interjection

  • Has no grammatical function but to express emotion

    • Ow!

    • Uh-Oh…

    • Boy-Oh-Boy