8th grade English nouns pronouns and verbs

compound noun

a noun made up of two or more words

collective noun

a noun that names a group of individual people or things

relative pronoun

a pronoun such as that, which. who, whom, or whose that begins a subordinate clause and connects it to another idea in the sentence

helping verb

a verb added to another verb to make a single verb phrase that indicates the time at which an action takes place or whether it actually happens, could happen, or should happen

personal pronoun

a word such as I, me, you, we, us, he, him, she, her they, and them that refers to the person speaking; the person spoken to; or the person place or thing spoken about

indefinite pronoun

a word such as anyone, each, or many that refers to a person place or thing without specifying which one

linking verb

a word that expresses its subjects state of being or condition

noun

a word that names a person place or thing

pronoun

a word that stands for a noun or for another word that takes the place of a noun

action verb

a word that tells what action someone or something is performing

interrogative pronoun

a, word such as which and who that introduces a question

intransitive verb

an action verb hat does not take a direct object

transitive verb

an action verb that takes a direct object

proper noun

names a specific person place or thing

common nouns

names any one of a class of people places or things

antecedent

the noun (or group of words acting as a noun) for which a pronoun stands

verb phrase

the part of the sentence containing the verb and any direct or indirect object but not the object

demonstrative pronoun

words such as this, that, these, and those used to single out specific people places or things