English Flashcards
(54 cards)
Noun
Names a person place or thing
Subject pronoun
Indicates who or what performs the action of a sentence as in I, you, he, she, it, they and we are subjects
Object pronoun
Indicates who and what receives action me, you, him, her, it, us, and then
Singular noun
Names person place or thing
Plural noun
Names more than one
Possessive noun
Shows ownership
Adjective
Tell what kind of, which one or how many
Adverb
Tells how, where,when,and to what extent
Verb
Word that expresses action or a state of being
Direct object
Is a noun that follows an action verb. It receives the action
Tense of a verb
Shows the time of action past, present, and future
Commas
Are used to separate items in series, to separate parts of dates, to separate parts of names
Colons
Are used to separate hours and minutes in time or introduce list and follow a business letter
Semicolons
Are used to separate independent clauses in a sentence
Parentheses
Are used to show that information is not part of a main statement
Quotations
Used to show the beginning and end of someone exact words
Sentence
A group of words that express a complete thought; has a subject and a predicate
Simple sentence
A sentence that expresses only one complete thought
Compound sentence
Made up of 2 simple sentences joined by a comma and the word and,but, or or
Sentence fragment
A word group that has no subject or predicate joined without a conjunction
Run-on sentence
Consists of 2 of more sentences joined without a conjunction
Independent clause
Another name for a simple sentence
Dependent clause
Has a subject and a verb but cannot standalone as a sentence it has no complete thought
Complex sentence
Consists of one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses
