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.