English Grammar

Cards (21)

  • Verbs are words that express actions, occurrences, or states of being.
  • Modal verbs are auxiliary verbs that express necessity, possibility, or permission.
  • Nouns are words that represent people, places, things, or ideas.
  • Coordinating conjunctions join equal grammatical elements such as words, phrases or clauses. They include and, but, or, nor, for, yet, so.
  • Conjunctions join clauses or sentences, connecting words, phrases or larger elements of a discourse.
  • The present perfect tense is used to talk about past actions that have an effect on the present.
  • Subordinating conjunctions introduce subordinate clauses and are typically placed at the beginning. They include because, if, although, since, before, after, as, while, until.
  • The simple past tense is used to describe completed actions or events in the past.
  • The continuous form (present participle) is formed by adding "-ing" to the base form of the verb, such as "running".
  • Nouns name people, places, things, ideas, qualities, etc.
  • Pronouns take the place of nouns to avoid repetition.
  • Adjectives describe nouns by adding more information about them.
  • The present tense is used to describe ongoing events or habits.
  • Regular verbs follow the pattern "base form + -ed" for the past tense.
  • The past tense is used to describe completed events or actions.
  • Adjectives describe the qualities or characteristics of nouns.
  • Pronouns replace nouns to avoid repetition.
  • Prepositions show the relationship between nouns or pronouns and other parts of speech in a sentence.
  • Subordinating conjunctions introduce subordinate clauses (dependent clauses) into sentences.
  • Prepositions indicate relationships between words.
  • Prepositions indicate the relationship between nouns or pronouns and other parts of speech in a sentence.