Active Voice
-A sentence is said to be in the active voice when the subject is the peformer of the action of the verb.
Adverb of Manner
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An adverb of manner answers the question how? Adverbs of manner end in -ly.
Adverb of Degree
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An adverb of degree answers the question how much?
Adverb of Time
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An adverb of time answers the question when?
Adverb of Place
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An adverb of place answers the question where?
Articles
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An article is a word placed before a noun to show whether the noun refers to a specific person, animal, place, thing, event or idea or whether it refers to an unspecified person, thing or idea.
Attributive Adjective
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An attributive adjective is connected directly to the noun it describes and always precedes it.
Auxiliary Verbs
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A verb is a called an auxillary or helping verb when it helps another verb, called the main verb form on of its tenses.
Conditional Form
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The conditional form of the verb implies a condition.
Conditional Perfect
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To have in the conditional + the past participle of the main verb.
Conjunction
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A conjunction is a word that links two or more words or groups of words.
Coordinating Conjunction
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A coordinating conjunction joins words, phrases (groups of words without a verb), and clauses (groups of words with a verb), that are equal. The major coordinating conjunctions are and, but, or, nor, for, and yet.
Declarative Sentence
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A declarative sentence makes a statement.
Definite Articles
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A definite article is used before a noun when we are speaking of a specific person, place, animal or thing. There is one definite article in English, the.
Demonstrative Adjective
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A demonstrative adjective is a word used to point out a noun.
Demonstrative Pronouns
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Demonstrative pronouns are used to point out persons or things.
Dependent Clause
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A dependent clause does not express a complete sentence.
Descriptive Adjective
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A descriptive adjective is a word that indicates a quality of a noun or pronoun. It describes the noun or pronoun.
Direct Object
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A direct object is a noun or pronoun that receives the action of the verb directly, with a preposition between the verb and the noun or pronoun. It answers the question whom? or what? asked after the verb.
Future Perfect
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To have in the future tense + the past participle of the main verb.
Imperative
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The imperative is used to give someone an order.
Imperative Mood
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The imperative mood is used to give commands or orders.
Indefinite Articles
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An indefinite article is used before a noun when we are speaking about an unspecified person, animal, place, thing, event or idea.
Indefinite Pronouns
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Indefinite pronouns are used to introduce relative subordinate pronouns.
Indicative Mood
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The indicative mood is used to state the action of the verb, that is to indicate facts.
Indirect Object
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An indirect object is a noun or pronoun that receives the action of the verb indirectly. It answers the question whom? or what? asked after the verb.
Infinitive
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The infinitive form is the name of the verb.
Interrogative Adjective
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An interrogative adjective is a word that asks for information about a noun.
Interrogative Pronouns
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Interrogative pronouns are used to ask questions.
Interrogative Sentence
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An interrogative sentence asks a question.
Intransitive Verb
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An intransitive verb does not require a direct object.
Main Clause
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A main clause expresses a complete sentence.
Mood
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Mood is a grammatical term for a category of a verb used to indicate the attitude of a speaker toward what he or she is saying.
Objects
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Objects are nouns or pronouns indicating towards what or whom the action of the verb is directed.
Object of a Preposition
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An object of a preposition is a noun or pronoun that follows a preposition and is related to it. It answers the question whom? or what? asked after the preposition.
Participle
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A participle is a form of a verb that can be used in one of two ways: with an auxillary verb to indicate certain tenses, or as an adjective to describe something.
Past Perfect (pluperfect)
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To have in the simple past + the past participle of the main verb.
Perfect Tenses
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The perfect tenses are compound verbs made up of the auxillary verb to have + the past participle of the main verb.
Personal Pronouns
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A personal pronoun replace nouns referring to persons or things that have been previously mentioned.
Possessive
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The term possesive means that one noun owns or posseses another noun.
Possesive Pronouns
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Possesive pronouns are used to show ownership or possession.
Present Perfect
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To have in the present tense + the past participle of the main verb.
Progressive Tenses
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The progressive tenses are used to talk about actions that are in progress at a specific moment in time; they emphasize the moment that an action takes place.
Reflective Pronoun
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A reflective pronoun refers back to the subject of the sentence.
Relative Pronoun
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A relative pronoun is a word used at the beginning of a clause giving additional information about someone or something previously mentioned.
Subjunctive
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The subjunctive is a mood used to express a wish, hope, uncertainty or other similar attitude toward a fact or idea. Since it stresses the subject's feelings about the fact or idea, it is usually subjective about them.
Passive Voice
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A sentence is said to be in the passive voice when the subject is the receiver of the action of the verb.
Predicate Adjective
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A predicate adjective is connected to the noun it describes, always the subject of the sentence, by linking verbs such as to be, to feel, to look.
Preposition
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A preposition is a word that shows the relationship of one word (usually a noun or pronoun) to another word (usually another noun or pronoun) in the sentence.
Possesive Adjective
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A possesive adjective is a word that describes a noun by showing who posseses that noun.
Reciprocal Action
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Action between two or more persons or things.
Reflective Verb
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A reflective verb is a verb which is accompanied by a pronoun, called a reflective pronoun, that serves "to reflect" the action of the verb back to the subject. Reflective pronouns end with -self in the singular and -selves in the plural.
Subject
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In a sentence the subject is the person or thing that performs the action of the verb.
Subject Pronoun
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A subject pronoun is a used as a subject of a verb.
Subjunctive Mood
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The subjunctive mood is used to express an attitude or feeling toward the action of the verb.
Superlative
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The superlative is used to stress the highest or lowest degrees of a quality.
Subordinating Conjunction
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A subordinating conjunction joins a main clause to a dependent clause; it subordinates one clause to another. Typical subordinating conjunctions are before, after, since, although, because, if, unless, so that, while, that and when.
Subordinate Clause
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A subordinate clause is a clause introduced by a subordinating conjuction. Typical subordinating conjunctions are before, after, since, although, because, if, so that, while, that, and when.
Transitive Verb
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A transitive verb takes a direct object.
Voice
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Voice in the grammatical sense refers to the relationship between the verb and its subject. There are two voices, active and passive.
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