Honor's English Parts Of Speech

Front 1

word used to show the relationship of a noun or pronoun to another word and they show location.

Back 1

preposition

Front 2

a noun that is singular but names a group

Back 2

collective noun

Front 3

expresses an action directed toward a peson or a thing
EX The British FOUGHT the French for control of parts of Canada.

Back 3

Transitive

Front 4

emphasizes a noun or another pronoun
EX. Yoko dilaed the long distance number HERSELF

Back 4

Intensive pronoun

Front 5

also called a STATE oF BEING VERB, links the subject with a noun, pronoun, or adjective
EX This apple TASTES crisp

Back 5

linking verb

Front 6

introduces a subordinate clause(a clause that cannot stand alone)
EX. I know WHO will be the guest speaker.
who whom whose which that

Back 6

relative pronoun

Front 7

word used in plave of one or more nouns

Back 7

pronouns

Front 8

word used to modify or describe a noun or a pronoun

Back 8

adjective

Front 9

expresses action without reference to an object
EX The British and the French FOUGHT for land control.

Back 9

Intransitive verb

Front 10

points out a person, plave , thing , or idea
THAT was a wonderful movie! I like THESE better then THOSE
this that these those

Back 10

demonstrative pronoun

Front 11

introduces a question
EX.WHAT is today's date? WHOSE umbrella is this?
who whom whose which what

Back 11

interrogative pronoun

Front 12

used to modify a verb, an adjective, or another adverb. It tells where, when how or to what extent, and how often or how much
EX. We stayed INSIDE. It was an UNUSUALLY quiet morning.

Back 12

adverb

Front 13

refers to a person, plave, or thing that is not specifically named
EX NOBODY knows yet who won the election. ALL of us need help.
all each either everyone several nobody someone

Back 13

indefinite pronoun

Front 14

a word used to join words or groups of works

Back 14

conjunction

Front 15

expresses activity, whether physical or mental
PHYS=run cook build swim walk
MENT=like trust remember forget worry
~can be transitive or intransitive

Back 15

action verb

Front 16

refers to the subject and directs the actions of the verb back to the subject
EX you can help YOURSELF

Back 16

reflexive pronoun

Front 17

words used to connect sentence parts taht are used in the same way.
coo- My mom AND dad said that I can go
cor- NEITHER Heta NOR Evan had read the book
and but or nor

Back 17

coordinating conjunctions and correlative conjenctions(pairs of conjenctions)

Front 18

word used to show action or a state of being

Back 18

verb

Front 19

a noun that cannot be physically touched

Back 19

abstract noun

Front 20

names a specific person, plave, or thing (always capitalized)

Back 20

proper noun

Front 21

a noun that can be physically touched

Back 21

concrete noun

Front 22

names a general person, place, thing, or idea

Back 22

common noun

Front 23

first person= i, my, mine, me, we, our, ours, us~ second person= you, your, yours~ third person= he, his, him, she, her, hers, it, its, they, their, theirs, them

Back 23

personal pronouns

Front 24

the noun that the pronoun replaces
EX. LIAN showed HER dad her new BOOK and put IT on the desk

Back 24

antecedent

Front 25

word used to express emotion. It has no grammatical relation to the other words i the sentence. It is set off from the rest of the sentence be an exclamation point or comma

EX. WOW! I can't believe we won that game in the fianl second
WELL, it certainly was an exciting game, wasn't it?

Back 25

interjection

Front 26

a person place thing or idea

Back 26

Noun