Writing Coach Chapter 13 – Flashcards
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noun
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part of speech that names person, place, thing, or idea
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collective noun
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names a group of people or things. ex: choir, crew
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compound noun
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noun made up of two or more words acting as a single unit. ex: bird dog, self-rule, porthole
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common noun
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names any one of a class of people, places or things. ex:building, writer, book
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proper noun
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names a specific person, or thing. ex: June, John, Jones Diary
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concret nouns
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names something you can see, touch, taste, hear, or smell. ex: person, cannon, road, city, music
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abstract nouns
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names something you can not percieve through any 5 senses. ex: hope, improvement, independence,
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pronouns
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words that stand for nouns or for words that take place of nouns ex: she, her, they, their
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antecedents
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nouns or words that take the place of nouns to which prouns refer ex: Heather
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personal pronouns
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refer to the person speaking (first person), the person spoken to (second person), or the person, place, or thing spoken about (third person)
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reflexive pronouns
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ends in -self or -selves and indicates that someone or something in the sentence acts for or on itself
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intensive pronouns
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ends in -self or -selves and simply adds emphasis to a noun or pronoun in the sentence
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reciprocal pronoun
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each other, and one another refer to a plural antecedent. express mututal action or relationship.
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demostrative pronoun
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directs attention to a specific person, place thing. this, that, these, those
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relative pronoun
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introduces an adjective clause and connects it to the word that the clause modifies.that, which, who, whom, whose
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interrogative pronoun
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used to begin a question. what, which, who, whom, whose
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indefinate pronoun
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refers to a person, place, or thing that may or may not be specifically named. words ending in -other, -body, -one, all, any, both, few
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verbs
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a word or group of words that express time while showing an action, a condition, or the fact that something exists.
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action verb
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tells what action someone or something is performing
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linking verb
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connects its subject with a noun, pronoun, or adjective that identifies or describes the subject. am, is, are, were, etc.
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transitive verbs
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directs action toward someone or something named in the same sentence. answers the question what
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intransitive verbs
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does not direct action toward anyone or anything named in the same sentence. doesn't answer the question what.
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verb phrase
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consist of a main verb, and one or more helping verbs
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adjective
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describes a noun or pronoun or gives a verb a more specific meaning. answers, "what kind. which one. how many. how much."
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articles
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three common ones, a, an, the
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indefinate articles
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a, an, only ones because they refer to any one of a class of nouns
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definate articles
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the, only one because it refers to a specific noun
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Proper adjectives
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proper nouns, used as adjective or adjectives. monday, england, docotor, etc
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particaples
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verbs ending in -ing and -ed
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adverb
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verb that modifies a verb, an adjective or another adverb. answers the question, when. where. in what way. to waht extent.
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preposition
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relates the noun or pronoun that appears with it to another word in the sentence
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prepositional phrase
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a group of words that includes a preposition and a noun and pronoun
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conjunction
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used to connect other words or group of words, and. but. or .nor. for. yet.
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correlative
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have this in the. both...and. not only... but also. either... or. whether... or. neither... nor.
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subornating
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joins two complete ideas by making one of the ideas suborniating to, or dependent upon, the other
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interjection
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word that expresses feeling or emotion and functions independently of a sentence. ouch! wow! etc.
