41 Grammar Terms

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Flashcards for 41 grammatical terms and definitions
Gerald Baalham
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Adjective a word naming an attribute of a noun, such as sweet, red, or technical.
adverb a word or phrase that modifies the meaning of an adjective, verb, or other adverb, expressing manner, place, time, or degree (e.g. gently, here, now, very ). Some adverbs, for example sentence adverbs, can also be used to modify whole sentences.
Agreement the words a writer uses need to align in number and in gender (when applicable).
article A type of determiner that precedes a noun: a, an, or the.
auxiliary verb determines the mood or tense of another verb in a verb phrase. Also known as a helping verb.
comparative the form of an adjective or adverb used to compare two things. To create a comparative, remember that with short adjectives add -er to the end, and longer ones use more before the adjective: EG: The Nile is longer than the Amazon. - Long >> Longer EG: Many students find writing more difficult than reading. - Difficult >> More Difficult
compound noun made up of two or more words. Most compound nouns in English are formed by nouns modified by other nouns or adjectives. For example: The words tooth and paste are each nouns in their own right, but if you join them together they form a new word - toothpaste.
conditional Conditional Clause and Main Clause If I have enough money, (conditional clause) I will go to Japan. (main clause) I will go to Japan, (main clause) if I have enough money (conditional clause) 1. First conditional: If I have enough money, I will go to Japan. 2. Second conditional: If I had enough money, I would go to Japan. 3. Third conditional: If I had had enough money, I would have gone to Japan.
conjunction a word like AND, BUT, WHEN, OR, etc., which connects words, phrases or clauses.
continuous Both tenses have a continuous form. These continuous tenses are formed with the verb be and the –ing form of the verb. He’s getting on the train. Everybody will be waiting for us. The children were always shouting.
contraction A shortened form of a word or group of words (such as doesn't and won't), with the missing letters usually marked by an apostrophe.
count noun A Count Noun is a noun that has both a singular and a plural form. Plurals of Count Nouns are normally made by the addition of '-s'. eg: A horse - Two horses. Nouns that do not have plural forms are called uncountable nouns or mass nouns.
demonstrative pronoun This; that; these; those; none and neither are Demonstrative Pronouns that substitute nouns when the nouns they replace can be understood from the context.
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