- Adjective
- A word that modifies a noun or noun substitute.
- Adverb
- A word that modifies a verb, adjective or another adverb.
- Analysis
- A method of explaining something by examining its parts. See Rhetorical Models.
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- Clause
- A group of related words containing a subject/predicate
relationship. Clauses come in two main varieties: independent
and dependent. All sentences have at least one independent
clause.
- Conjunction
- A conjunction is a word that joins similar sentence
elements (grammatical units) together. Conjunctions fall into two main groups:
coordinating and subordinating.
- Conjunctive Adverb
- These pseudo parts of speech behave much like a conjunction or
preposition but have many of the characteristics of an adverb.
Conjunctive adverbs always have punctuation associated with them.
- Connector
- A connector joins various grammatical units to the sentence
or to each other. Prepositions and conjunctions function as connectors.
- Coordinating Conjunctions
- These specific parts of speech join together grammatical units
of equal importance together. The coordinating conjunctions are
"and," "but," "or," "nor," "for," "yet," and "so."
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- Dependent Clause
- A dependent, or subordinate clause , needs a main clause to explain it.
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- Functions, Sentence
- Sentence functions are what parts of speech do within the sentence. Sentence functions include: subject, predicate, object, complement, appositive, marker, and modifier.
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- Gerund
- A gerund is a verb that always has an "-ing" ending and alwaysfunctions as a noun.
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- Independent Clause
- An independent, or main clause, needs no other clause to explain it. A simple sentence contains one independent clause.
- Infinitive
- An infinitve is composed of the word "to" immediately
followed a verb with no endings. Infinitives can perform
any sentence function except that of predicate.
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- Modifier
- Any word, phrase, or clause that changes, by
limiting, the meaning of a noun or noun substitute
or a verb. Modifers include adjectives and adverbs and
various phrases and clauses that act as modifiers.
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- Noun
- Name of a person, place, or thing.
- Noun Substitutes
- Any word, phrase, or clause that substitutes for a noun.
Pronouns, of course, fall into this category, as do gerunds
and noun clauses.
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- Object
- An object is a noun or noun substitute that receives action
from a verb or uses a preposition to connect to the rest of
the sentence. Objects include direct, indirect, and object of
preposition.
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Parallel Structure
Structures that are joined together with similar grammatical forms.
“He likes hunting and fishing” is parallel.
“He likes hunting and to fish ” is not parallel.
Participle
A verb with some sort of verb ending functioning as a modifer.
Parts of Speech
The name of a word. The parts of speech are noun,
verb, pronoun, adjective,
adverb, article, conjunction, preposition, and interjection.
Phrase
A group of related words.
Preposition
A preposition is a connecting word. Prepositions first connect a
noun/object into a prepositional phrase and then that phrase is
connected to the rest of the sentence.
Pronoun
Pronouns are words that are substituted in place of nouns and are
a formal part of speech.
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- Rhetorical Models
- A method or model for writing compositions. A rhetorical model is a pattern. Among the rhetorical models are comparison & contrast, classification, and analysis. .
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- Sentence
- A sentence is group of related words containing a subject/predicate
relationship. A sentence must have at least one independent clause .
- Sentence Functions
- Click above for sentence functions.
- Subject
- The subject of a sentence is that noun, nouns or noun substitutes
that perform an action or exist because the sentence has a predicate.
The subject is what the sentence, or clause, is about.
- Subordinating Conjunction
- Subordinating conjunctions join sentence elements of unequal
importance, making one grammatical unit "less than" or subordinate
to the other. Subordinate conjunctions include words such as "because,"" if,"
and "since." Conjunctive adverbs (adverbial connectives) are often confused with
subordinate conjunctions.
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- Verb
- A verb is a word that most often functions as the predicate of a sentence. A verb shows action, being, or state of being. A verb functioning as a predicate shows what the subject does or that the subject exists. Within a verbal phrase, the verb functions as
either a modifier, subject, or object.
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- Word
- The word is atomic unit of grammar.
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