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| word used to identify any of a class of people, places, or things common noun |
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| word that can functionby itself as a noun, phrase & that refers either to the participants in the discourse or tosomeoneor to something mentioned elsewhere in the discourse. examples; I, YOU, SHE, IT, THIS |
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a word or phrase naming attribute, added to or grammatically related to a noun to modify or describe it examples; TELLS US WHAT SOMETHING IS DOING
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| word used to describe an action, state, or occurence & forming the main part of the predicate of a sentence, such as HEAR, BECAME, HAPPEN..... SMELLED |
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| word of phrase that modifies or qualifies an adjective, verb, or otheer adverb or a word group. expressing a relation of place, time, circumstance, manner, cause, degree. usually ends with -ly examples; GENTLY, QUITE, THEN,THERE |
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| a word governing & usually preceding, a noun or pronoun & expressing a relation to another word or element in the clause as in "the man on the platform" example; OF, ON, TO, FOR, IN, BESIDE |
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a word used to connect clauses or sentences or to coordinate words in the same clause. examples; AND, BUT, IF, NOT, YET, FOR, SO
F.A.N.B.O.Y.S = F-FOR, A-AND, N-NOR, B-BUT, O-OR, Y-YET, S-SO
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| either member of a matched pair of words, of which the second is a coodinating conjunction. examples; NEITHER-NOR, EITHER-OR, BOTH-AND, NOT ONLY, BUT-ALSO, WHETHER-OR |
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| a conjunction placed between words, phrases, clauses, or sentences oof equal rank. examples; AND, BUT, OR |
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| noun that is not capitalized. example; She said her jealousy for Abbey started as a little thing and grew into a monster. |
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| replaces things/people that are not specific. examples; EVERYTHING, EVERYONE, ANYONE, SOMEONE, ANY, ALL, FEW, MANY, NONE, NOBODY, SOMEBODY |
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