The 8 Parts Of Speech

Front 1

word that names a person, place, thing, or idea

Back 1

noun

Front 2

general name for a person, place thing or idea

Back 2

common noun

Front 3

name of a particular person, place, thing, or idea

Back 3

proper noun

Front 4

name of something perceived by the senses

Back 4

concrete noun

Front 5

name of an idea, quality, or state

Back 5

abstract noun

Front 6

one person, place, thing, or idea

Back 6

singular noun

Front 7

more than one person, place, thing, or idea

Back 7

plural noun

Front 8

name of a group of people or things

Back 8

collective noun

Front 9

single noun formed from two or more words

Back 9

compound noun

Front 10

noun that shows ownership or relationship

Back 10

possessive noun

Front 11

a word used in place of a noun or another pronoun.

Back 11

pronoun

Front 12

the word that a pronoun stands for is called its...

Back 12

antecedent

Front 13

show ownership or relationship

Back 13

possessive pronouns

Front 14

Name 12 possessive pronouns

Back 14

my, mine, your, yours, his, her, hers, its, our, ours, their theirs

Front 15

Name 11 personal pronouns

Back 15

I, me, you, he, him, she, it, we, us, they them

Front 16

reflects action back upon the subject of its sentence or clause

Back 16

reflexive pronoun

Front 17

emphasizes a noun or pronoun in the same sentence

Back 17

intensive pronoun

Front 18

points out specific persons, places, things, or ideas

Back 18

demonstrative pronouns

Front 19

refers to unidentified persons, places, things, or ideas

Back 19

indefinite

Front 20

introduces a question

Back 20

interrogative

Front 21

introduces a subordinate clause

Back 21

relative pronoun

Front 22

a word used to express action, condition, or state of being

Back 22

verb

Front 23

expresses physical or mental action

Back 23

action verb

Front 24

links the subject of a sentence to a word in the predicate

Back 24

linking verb

Front 25

combined with verbs to form verb phrases

Back 25

helping verbs

Front 26

List 9 helping verbs

Back 26

be, had, do, might, would, will, must, could, and would

Front 27

modify nouns or pronouns

Back 27

adjective

Front 28

adjectives tell...

Back 28

what kind, which one, how many, or how much

Front 29

most common adjectives

Back 29

articles

Front 30

refer to unspecified members of groups of people, places, things, or ideas

Back 30

indefinite articles

Front 31

name the 2 indefinite articles

Back 31

a, an

Front 32

refers to a specific person, place, thing, or idea

Back 32

definite article

Front 33

name 1 definite article

Back 33

the

Front 34

modify verbs, adjectives, or other ______

Back 34

adverbs

Front 35

adverbs answer the ?s...

Back 35

where, when, how, and to what extent

Front 36

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

Back 36

preposition

Front 37

consists of a preposition, its object, and any modifiers of the object

Back 37

prepositional phrase

Front 38

the noun or a pronoun that follows the preposition

Back 38

object of the preposition

Front 39

connects words or groups of words

Back 39

conjunction

Front 40

connects words or word groups that have equal importance in a sentence

Back 40

coordinating conjunction

Front 41

pairs of conjunctions that join words or groups of words

Back 41

correlative conjuction

Front 42

name 7 coordinating conjunctions

Back 42

for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so

Front 43

name 3 pairs of correlative conjunctions

Back 43

both...and, either...or, not only...but also

Front 44

clauses that cannot stand alone as complete sentences

Back 44

subordinate clause

Front 45

introduces subordinate clauses and join them to independent clauses

Back 45

subordinating conjunctions

Front 46

name 10 subordinating conjunctions

Back 46

after, although, as, because, if, since, so that, until, when, while

Front 47

used to express relationships between independent clauses

Back 47

conjunctive adverb

Front 48

a word or phrase that expresses an emotion or strong feeling

Back 48

interjection