English Grammar

Complement

A complement is a word or phrase that completes the meaning of a verb. There are four different types of complements.

Direct Object

A direct object answers the question what? Or whom? After an action verb. Looking for a transitive verb.

Prepositional Phrase

A prepositional phrase is a group of words that begins with a preposition and usually ends with a noun or pronoun, called the object or the preposition. functions as an adjective when it modifies a noun or pronoun. It functions as an adverb when it modifies a verb, adjective, or an adverb.

Conjunction

A word or group of words that connects other words.

Prepositions

A word that shows the relationship of a noun or pronoun to some other word in a sentence

Appositive

An appositive is a noun or a pronoun placed next to another noun or pronoun to identify it or add more information

Object Complement

Comes after an action verb, answers the question what? After a direct object. Completes the meaning of the direct object, tells us more about the direct object itself. Object complements can be an adjective, a noun or a pronoun. Must come after the direct object.

Complete Predicate

Contains the simple predicate plus all of its modifiers.

Complete Subject

Contains the simple subject and all of its modifiers.

Adverbs

Modifies verbs, adjectives, other adverbs, or entire clauses, they often answer of the following questions: How, When, Where, Why, To what extent?

Prepositional Phrases

Phrases that begin with a preposition usually end with a noun or pronoun, called the object of the preposition

Inverted Order

The predicate comes first and then the subject. The action is first, then the subject.

Coordinating Conjunction

They connect words or groups of words of equal grammatical weight. Combine complete sentences, or two or more of the same object, person.

Subject

What the sentence is about

Correlative Conjunctions

Work in pairs to join words or groups of words of equal grammatical weight.

Indirect Object

an indirect object answers the questions to whom? For whom? To what? And for what? After an action verb.

Compound Predicate

consists of two or more simple predicates that are connected/joined by a conjunction and have the same subject.

Compound Subject

consists of two or more simple subjects that are connected/joined by a conjunction and have the same verb.

Natural Order

in the natural order of a sentence, the subject precedes the predicate. Subject first then predicate.

Subject Complement

is a noun, pronoun or adjective that follows a subject and a linking verb and tells us more about the subject. Two types : Predicate nominative and predicate adjective.

Subordinating Conjunctions

join two clauses, or ideas, in such a way as to make one grammatically dependent upon the other. The idea, or clause, introduced by a subordinating conjunction is considered subordinate, or dependent, because it cannot stand alone as a complete sentence.

Appositive Phrase

the ______ plus all of its modifiers. A noun or a noun phrase that tells more about the noun or noun phrase that is the subject of the sentence.

Simple Subject

the key noun and pronoun that tells what the sentence is about

Predicate

the part of the sentence that tells us something about the subject

Simple Predicate

the verb or verb phrase that tells us something about the subject.