Gram (Subjects, Verbs, Predicates, POS)

Simple subject

Main noun or word group that tell whom or what the sentence is about

Peripatetic

Nomadic (wandering; traveling from place to place, especially working or based in various places for relatively short periods)

A number used as an adjective; either a cardinal adjective (such as one) or an ordinal adjective (such as first).

Numerical adjectives

Mine, yours, his, hers, its, ours, theirs - are examples of what type of adjectives?

Possessive

The part of a sentence or clause containing a verb and stating something about the subject (e.g., went home in John went home) is called....

Predicate

Be, am, is, are, was, were, been, being, appear, become, feel, grow, look, seem, remain, smell, sound, stay, taste, turn

State-of-being (linking) verbs

SVO narrative

Subject-verb-object narrative (In linguistic typology, subject-verb-object (SVO) is a sentence structure where the subject comes first, the verb second, and the object third. ... SVO is the second most common order by number of known languages, after SOV.)

Proprioception

The sense of the relative position of one's own parts of the body and strength of effort being employed in movement. (Proprioception is tested by American police officers using the field sobriety test to check for alcohol intoxication. The subject is required to touch his or her nose with eyes closed; people with normal proprioception may make an error of no more than 20 millimeters, while people suffering from impaired proprioception (a symptom of moderate to severe alcohol intoxication) fail this test due to difficulty locating their limbs in space relative to their noses.)

One of a small group of adjectives that modify the nouns to which they are applied by restricting rather than describing or qualifying.

limiting adjectives

________________ adjectives take several different forms: possessive, demonstrative, indefinite, interrogative and numerical

limiting adjectives

The most common ______________ verbs are forms of the verb to be: am, is, are, was, were, being, been. Other common linking verbs include: appear, become, feel, grow, look, remain, seem, smell, sound, stay, taste, and turn.

linking

A word that names a person, place, thing, or idea. Concrete nouns name people, places, or things that you can touch, see, hear, smell, or taste. Abstractions may include emotions, ideas, qualities, notions, wishes, passions, attributes, etc.

noun

An ____________ complement follows and modifies or refers to a direct object. It can be a noun or adjective or any word acting as a noun or adjective.

object

A compound _____________ (or compound verb) has two actions for the same subject. In other words, the subject of the sentence is doing more than one action. The easiest way to identify a compound predicate is to look for a compound verb, which occurs when two or more verbs belong to the same subject.

predicate

A _________________ is a word that takes the place of a noun, its antecedent. (ex: I, me, mine, myself, she, her, hers, herself, we, us, ours and ourselves.)

pronoun

The _________________ predicate is the main verb in the predicate that tells what the subject does.

simple

A _______________ complement follows a linking verb; it is normally an adjective or a noun that renames or defines in some way the subject.

subject

Both simple ____________ and simple ____________ can be compound, which means that more than one thing is going on, or is being gone on about.

subjects, predicates

Subject

the person, place, thing, or idea that is doing or being something (You can find the subject of a sentence if you can find the verb. Ask the question, "Who or what 'verbs' or 'verbed'?" and the answer to that question is the subject.)

A _______________ complement is a direct or indirect object of a verb.

verb

A verb used in forming the tenses, moods, and voices of other verbs.

Auxiliary (or helping) verbs

A number denoting quantity (one, two, three, etc.), as opposed to an ordinal number (first, second, third, etc.).

Cardinal number

The _________________ consists of all the words that divulge something about the subject

Complete predicate

The _______________________ includes the verb and all the words that tell what happened in the sentence

Complete predicate

The ____________________ subject is who or what is doing the verb, plus all of the modifiers (descriptive words) that go with it.

Complete subject

This, that, these, those - are examples of what type of adjectives?

Demonstrative

__________________________________ are adjectives that are used to modify a noun so that we know which specific person, place, or thing is mentioned. (Examples: This, that, these, those)

Demonstrative adjectives

Do you want tea? What is the auxiliary verb in this sentence?

Do (accompanying the main verb "want")

Adjectives that specify, quantify, or identify the noun presented (ex: our quesadillas, some hanky-panky, those dirty rats, much reflection)

limiting adjectives

Adjective complements are also called predicate adjectives; noun complements are also called predicate nouns or predicate nominatives. True or false?

True

Definite and indefinite articles (ex: "the" or "a") can also be limiting adjectives. True or false?

True

List of verbs that can be auxiliary: Be (am, are, is, was, were, being, been), can, could, dare, do (does, did), have (has, had, having), may, might, must, need, ought, shall, should, will, would. True or false?

True

There are only two articles "a" and "the," but they are used very often and are important for using English accurately. The word a (which becomes an when the next word begins with a vowel - a, e, i, o, u) is called the indefinite article, because the noun it goes with is indefinite or general. True or false?

True

An ____________ verb is a verb that expresses physical or mental action. The action verb tells us what the subject of our clause or sentence is doing-physically or mentally

action

A (modifying) word that describes or clarifies a noun. Describe nouns by giving some information about an object's size, shape, age, color, origin or material.

adjective

a word, phrase, clause, or sentence to which another word (especially a following relative pronoun) refers.

antecedent

The ________________ predicate of a sentence tells what the subject does or is. It includes a verb and all other details that describe what is going on. (Example: My father fixed the dryer.)

complete

A ___________ noun is a noun that is made up of two or more words. Most in English are formed by nouns modified by other nouns or adjectives. ... The word black is an adjective and board is a noun, but if you join them together they form a new word - blackboard.

compound

When a sentence has two or more subjects, that's called a "_______________ subject." The individual subjects in a compound subject are joined by a coordinating conjunction (and, or, neither, nor). When the subjects are joined by "and," the verb agrees with the pronoun "they."

compound

A _________________________ subject contains two or more subjects, joined by AND, OR, or NOR, which share the same verb, are doing the same thing, are sharing the same predicament

compound (ex: A debutante and a troll are squatting under the bridge; the innuendo and its consequences missed their mark completely)

The _________________________ adjectives can be simply defined as the type of adjectives that are used to express the size, color, or shape of a person, a thing, an animal, or a place. They are used to provide more information to a noun by describing or modifying it.

descriptive

An ___________________ adjective is used to describe a noun in a non-specific sense. They are often used to describe a noun to show an element of uncertainty. (Indefinite adjectives modify nouns or pronouns. Indefinite pronouns are standalone pronouns)

indefinite

Any, most, some, each, few, either are examples of...

indefinite adjectives

The words "which" and "what" are the two ________________________ adjectives and are used in interrogative sentences to modify nouns found in the question

interrogative