ENGLISH GRAMMAR TERMS

EASY WAYS TO REMEMBER

Nouns

A person, place, thing, or idea.

Person: boy, girl, man, woman

Place: America, Oregon, Keizer, Weddle, home

Thing: house, table, desk, pencil

Idea: justice, liberty, freedom

Verbs

Shows action or a state of behavior.

Examples:working running playing jumping

Adjectives

Describes a noun or pronoun.The small boat foundered on the wine dark sea.

The coal mines are dark and dank.

The back room was filled with large, yellow rain boots.

A battered music box sat on the mahogany sideboard.

AdverbModifies a verb

Adverbs of manner describe how something happens.carefully correctly eagerly easily

Adverbs of place describe where something happens.here home in out outside somewhere

Adverbs of purpose describe why something happens.so to in order to because

Adverbs of frequency describe how often something happens.always every never

Adverbs of time describe when something happens.after already during finally

ArticleThose little words that precede and modify nouns.

the teacher a college a bit of honey that personthose people whatever purpose either way your choiceSometimes these words will tell you whether it is a specific or general thing

the garage out back

A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!

PrepositionLinks to nouns, pronouns, and phrases

A preposition shows the relationship of its object to the rest of the sentence.

The book is on the table.

The books are book is leaning against the wall.

The book is beside the table.

She held the book over the table.

She read the book during class.

ConjunctionLinking words, phrases, and clauses

"and" "but" "or" "nor" "for" "so" "yet"

I ate the pizza and the pasta.

Call the movers when you are ready.

ContractionsA combination of two words and shortening the words by

replacing a one or two letters with an apostrophe.I am I'm

do not don't will not won't

is not isn'tit is it's

are not aren'tcould not couldn'tthey are they'rewere not weren't

I hope you learned something new or remembered something from your past.

Enjoy the song.